Movies Like Half-Cocked

If you liked Half-Cocked (2019), a movie directed by Aaron Barrocas, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Re-Animator (1985)
★ 7.1/10
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.
2
Man-Made Monster (1941)
★ 6.1/10
Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.
3
Splice (2010)
★ 5.9/10
Elsa and Clive, two rebellious young scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the…
4
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
5
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
★ 6/10
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more…
6
Laboratory Conditions (2018)
★ 7.3/10
A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
7
Darkman (1990)
★ 6.4/10
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental…
8
Night of the Creeps (1986)
★ 6.8/10
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the…
9
Chain Reaction (1996)
★ 5.8/10
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a…
10
Piranha (1978)
★ 6/10
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
11
Clayface (2026)
★ 7.5/10
Matt Hagen's meteoric rise from Gotham street kid to Hollywood leading man is tragically cut short when a local crime boss's actions leave him horribly disfigured. Abandoned by his team and with nothing left, Matt…
12
The Core (2003)
★ 5.9/10
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at…
13
The Kindred (1987)
★ 6/10
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's…
14
The Quiet Earth (1985)
★ 6.7/10
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
15
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
★ 6.5/10
Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of…
16
The Devil-Doll (1936)
★ 6.8/10
Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a…
17
Warning Sign (1985)
★ 6/10
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
18
Igor (2008)
★ 6.1/10
A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
19
The Fly (1986)
★ 7.5/10
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and…
20
Young Frankenstein (1974)
★ 7.9/10
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein…