Playing God
Community ListCurated by the horror codex · 287 films
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Ambition is the original sin of horror, and no one falls harder than the one who reaches for powers meant to stay out of human hands. From reanimated corpses to engineered life, the genre keeps staging the same tragedy: a creator oversteps the natural order and is destroyed by what they make. This is a list for films where someone tries to play god and pays the creator's price.
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The Fly
1986 ★ 4.4
Frankenstein
1931 ★ 4.3
Eyes Without a Face
1960 ★ 4.3
Jurassic Park
1993 ★ 4.3
The Skin I Live In
2011 ★ 4.3
Bride of Frankenstein
1935 ★ 3.9
Ex Machina
2015 ★ 4.0
Possessor
2020 ★ 4.1
The Invisible Man
1933 ★ 3.8
Island of Lost Souls
1932 ★ 4.2
Re-Animator
1985 ★ 3.9
Poor Things
2023 ★ 3.7
Frankenstein
2025 ★ 3.8
The Fly
1958 ★ 3.8
The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 ★ 4.0
Black Friday
1940
The Revenge of Frankenstein
1958 ★ 4.0
Frankenweenie
2012 ★ 3.5
Dead & Buried
1981 ★ 3.8
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
1971 ★ 3.8
Frankenstein
2015
Shivers
1975 ★ 3.5
Birth/Rebirth
2023 ★ 3.0
Black Box
2020 ★ 4.0
Depraved
2019
Tarantula
1955 ★ 3.0
From Beyond
1986 ★ 3.4
Alien: Covenant
2017 ★ 3.4
Deep Blue Sea
1999 ★ 4.5
Flesh for Frankenstein
1973 ★ 3.3
The Creeping Flesh
1973
Murders in the Rue Morgue
1932 ★ 3.3
Affection
2026 ★ 3.0
Species
1995 ★ 3.6
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969 ★ 3.0
The Man They Could Not Hang
1939
Frankenhooker
1990 ★ 3.3
Splice
2010 ★ 3.0
The Lift
1983 ★ 4.0
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
2023 ★ 3.0
Mimic
1997 ★ 3.1
The Human Vapor
1960 ★ 3.5
Primal Rage
1988 ★ 4.0
Casshern
2004
The Monster of Frankenstein
1981 ★ 3.5
Runaway Brain
1995 ★ 3.0
Fiend Without a Face
1958
Black Sheep
2006 ★ 3.0
Frankenstein: The True Story
1974
The House by the Cemetery
1981 ★ 3.4
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing
2017
Monkey Shines
1988
Tokyo Gore Police
2008 ★ 2.8
The Honeymoon Phase
2020
Demon Seed
1977 ★ 3.5
Tammy and the T-Rex
1994 ★ 3.8
The Horror of Frankenstein
1970 ★ 3.0
The Werewolf
1956 ★ 3.5
The Evil of Frankenstein
1964 ★ 3.5
The Vampire Bat
1933
Return of the Living Dead III
1993 ★ 3.5
Frankenstein
1910 ★ 3.0
The Magician
1926
Pinocchio: Unstrung
2026
The Body Snatcher
1957
Cool Air
1999
The Bride!
2026 ★ 3.0
A Daughter Of Destiny
1928
Tusk
2014 ★ 3.1
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
2009 ★ 5.0
The Revived Monster
1953
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1974 ★ 3.5
The Musical Vampire
1992
Day of Wrath
1985
Onslaught
2026
Terror of Frankenstein
1977
Dr. Renault's Secret
1942
Unnatural
1952
House of Terror
1960