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10 Best Movies Like The Brain

If you loved The Brain, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
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1981★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only po...

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Hollow Man

Hollow Man

2000★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the n...

#3
The Creeping Flesh

The Creeping Flesh

1973★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unl...

#4
Happy Birthday to Me

Happy Birthday to Me

1981★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the on...

#5
Crimes of the Future

Crimes of the Future

2022★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

With his partner, a celebrity performance artist publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry ob...

#6
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

1974★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Brain for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to em...

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