Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "body-snatcher"

1. The Faculty (1998)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 135,345 | Gross: $40.06M

2. Frankenstein (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Votes: 79,859

3. Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004 Video)

R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's loved/reviled sci-fi film, a group of troopers taking refuge in an abandoned outpost after fighting alien bugs, failing to realize that more danger lays in wait.

Director: Phil Tippett | Stars: Billy Brown, Richard Burgi, Kelly Carlson, Cy Carter

Votes: 24,502

4. BrainDead (2016)

TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A government employee discovers that the cause of the tensions between the two political parties is a race of extraterrestrial insects eating the brains of the politicians.

Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Danny Pino, Aaron Tveit, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 12,077

5. Nekromantik 2 (1991)

Not Rated | 104 min | Horror

A female nurse desperately tries to hide her feelings of necrophilia from her new boyfriend, but still has pieces of the corpse of the first movie's hero in her possession.

Director: Jörg Buttgereit | Stars: Monika M., Mark Reeder, Simone Spörl, Beatrice Manowski

Votes: 4,187

6. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.

Director: Bomani J. Story | Stars: Laya DeLeon Hayes, Denzel Whitaker, Chad L. Coleman, Reilly Brooke Stith

Votes: 1,911

7. Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

When the Conclave is destroyed, leaving only one survivor, demons are loosed up on the world. In an attempt to restore order and save the world, the survivor--now the inquisitor-- instigates the long forgotten inquisition.

Directors: Mike Laidlaw, Sam McGlynn, Pierre Michel-Estival | Stars: Harry Hadden-Paton, Alix Wilton Regan, Jon Curry, Sumalee Montano

Votes: 5,581

8. Alien Trespass (2009)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

After crash landing near a desert town, an alien enlists the help of a local waitress to re-capture a monster that escaped from the wreckage of his space ship.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: Eric McCormack, Jenni Baird, Robert Patrick, Dan Lauria

Votes: 4,261 | Gross: $0.10M

9. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh

Votes: 6,835

10. Infested (2002)

R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A funeral for one becomes a deathtrap for many when five old friend are held hostage at a remote summer home infested with killer flies.

Director: Josh Olson | Stars: Zach Galligan, Lisa Ann Hadley, Daniel Jenkins, Amy Jo Johnson

Votes: 1,434

11. Kafka (1991)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm

Votes: 10,580 | Gross: $1.06M

12. The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.

Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis Price

Votes: 2,941

13. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 6,134

14. The Body Snatcher (1945)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Thriller

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater

Votes: 10,209

15. The Head (1994–1996)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Jim and Roy, a friendly violet demonic-looking alien that inhabits Jim's giant head, must stop an alien invasion. Misguided FBI agents and a manipulated mad doctor stand in their way, but Jim finds allies.

Stars: Jason Candler, Eric Fogel, Dick Rodstein, Russ Hexter

Votes: 1,345

16. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)

R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Baron Frankenstein works with a mental patient to reanimate the dead.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse

Votes: 4,358 | Gross: $0.12M

17. Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971)

PG | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A Victorian scientist tests a serum that transforms him into a sensuous murderess.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis Fiander

Votes: 3,814 | Gross: $0.20M

18. Monstrosity (1963)

Unrated | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.

Directors: Joseph V. Mascelli, Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters

Votes: 2,973

19. Baldur's Gate (1998 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

The main character, ward of mystical monk Gorion, whose name, sex, race and class are defined by the players, leaves his order's keep for the first time and starts a journey to discover his true identity. But someone wants him dead.

Director: Feargus Urquhart | Stars: Dee Bradley Baker, Michael Bell, Jeff Bennett, Gregg Berger

Votes: 2,018

20. The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose

Votes: 2,326

21. I Sell the Dead (2008)

Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

A grave robber reflects on his life of crime.

Director: Glenn McQuaid | Stars: Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm

Votes: 11,203 | Gross: $0.01M

22. The House of Fear (1945)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of deaths at a castle with each foretold by the delivery of orange pips to the victims.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Aubrey Mather, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 5,547

23. Burke & Hare (1972)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Paul Luty, Roy Macready, Derren Nesbitt, Susan Coates

Votes: 563

24. Le nécrophile (2004)

38 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

M. Montaldo lives a quiet and simple life. He feeds on eating cockroaches and when he gets time over he pulls home the corpses that satisfy his sexual affection. But his life has just ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Barassat | Stars: Freddy Bournane, Ilona Szabo, Mohammed Aamoun, Jenny Bel'Air

Votes: 179

25. Slipstream (2007)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Hopkins, Christian Slater, John Turturro

Votes: 4,915 | Gross: $0.01M

26. Proteus (1995)

R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Keen | Stars: Craig Fairbrass, Toni Barry, William Marsh, Jennifer Calvert

Votes: 1,223

27. The Ferryman (2007)

R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

The story of a group of twenty-somethings who charter a boat to Fiji for the trip of a lifetime, before stumbling upon an evil that demands vengeance at any cost.

Director: Chris Graham | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Kerry Fox, Tamer Hassan, Amber Sainsbury

Votes: 1,975

28. The Devil Commands (1941)

Approved | 65 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Scientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anne Revere, Amanda Duff, Richard Fiske

Votes: 1,442

29. The Advanced Guard (1998 TV Movie)

R | 91 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

As a prelude to full-blown alien invasion, a team of four aliens telepathically linked with their lifelike human-looking android bodies abducts four random humans to test them to determine if humans can make good slaves.

Director: Peter Geiger | Stars: Robert Amico, James Avery, David Campbell, Cristi Conaway

Votes: 328

30. The Unknown (2000)

91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Five young field-biologists are sent to northern Sweden to investigate effects of a large forest fire. However, what was thought to be some weeks of camping and easy work soon turns into a ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Hjorth | Stars: Jacob Ericksson, Marcus Palm, Ann-Sofie Rase, Ingar Sigvardsdotter

Votes: 1,339

31. The Darkest Dawn (2016)

Not Rated | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The story of two sisters, as Britain descends into an alien apocalypse.

Director: Drew Casson | Stars: Bethan Leadley, Cherry Wallis, Jess Cleverly, Sarah Perugia

Votes: 2,165

32. The Alien Within (1995 TV Movie)

R | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Trapped under 2500 ft. Of crushing pressure, an underwater research team is invaded by an unknown mind-controlling alien. Terror turns to paranoia as the team members turn on each other, unable to discern friend from foe.

Director: Scott P. Levy | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Alex Hyde-White, Melanie Shatner, Don Stroud

Votes: 336

33. Habeas Corpus (1928)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Loony scientist (Carle) hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

Directors: James Parrott, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Richard Carle, Charley Rogers

Votes: 905

34. The Frightening (2002)

R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

On his first day at Hallow End High School, Corey Peterson discovers that a rash of murders is occurring on campus. Soon, a battle emerges between jocks and geeks, and Corey must choose a side.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Matthew Twining, James E. Foley, Jack Carlisle, Mark Ian Miller

Votes: 727

35. Voyages en têtes étrangères (2022)

120 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

They are here, among us, grafted to humans. Everything goes wrong. They have seven days to leave Earth or they will be trapped here forever. Why does one of them keep delaying the moment of departure?

Director: Antonio Amaral | Stars: Julien Darney, Mahamat Amine Benrachid, Elisabeth Mbaki, Ariane Louis

Votes: 14

36. Venus Versus Virus (2007)

24 min | Animation, Action, Drama

Pricked by a special broach, Sumire finds herself able to see evil spirits (viruses). Lucia exterminates viruses and mistakenly shoots Sumire with an antiviral bullet, which transforms her ... See full summary »

Stars: John Swasey, Blake Shepard, Carli Mosier, Joanne Bonasso

Votes: 94

37. Seven Doors to Death (1944)

Approved | 64 min | Mystery, Romance

A shot rings out in a darkened apartment; a woman screams and flees, tricking architect Jimmy McMillan into giving her a ride. McMillan returns and finds a body; but the police find a ... See full summary »

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Chick Chandler, June Clyde, George Meeker, Michael Raffetto

Votes: 249

38. The Abductors (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Two men plot to steal and hold for ransom the remains of President Abraham Lincoln.

Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: Victor McLaglen, George Macready, Fay Spain, Gavin Muir

Votes: 49

39. Sledztwo (1974 TV Movie)

53 min | Crime, Mystery

The young Scotland Yard inspector Gregory takes part in the investigation in an unusual case: corpses systematically disappear from the morgues of rural hospitals in the vicinity of London.... See full summary »

Director: Marek Piestrak | Stars: Tadeusz Borowski, Edmund Fetting, Jerzy Przybylski, Boleslaw Abart

Votes: 30

40. Tethers (2016)

4 min | Short, Sci-Fi

In an all-out alien invasion, massive extra-terrestrial bolides penetrate Earth's atmosphere, trapping three friends in a wide forest clearing. Is this a prelude to war, or is this the beginning of humanity's total annihilation?

Director: Justin Martinez | Stars: Gena Shaw, Bilal Mir, Whitney Ullom, Anthony Pavelich

Votes: 30

41. My Teacher Is an Alien (2017)

7 min | Short, Horror

While serving after-school detention, a wise-cracking sixth grader discovers something peculiar about his teacher.

Director: Patrick Griffith | Stars: Brodie Copeland, Joe West

Votes: 10

42. Traveller: Red (I) (2006)

50 min | Sci-Fi

A futuristic time traveller and his loyal companion discover a strange mass that threatens to end the world.

Director: Andrew Merkelbach | Stars: Catherine Billingham, John King, Marijana Kreso, Andrew Merkelbach

Votes: 20

43. Wrested (2020)

2 min | Short, Thriller

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Director: Elizabeth Kate Hernandez | Stars: Emma R. Leid, Kassie Winkler

44. The Imposter (2006)

Short

Set as a 60s cult horror movie, a boy struggles to make the distinction between fantasy and reality when an unwelcome visitor intrudes his home.

Director: Chris Nuñez | Stars: Donna Blaszczyk, Owen Campbell, Thomas Hoagland

45. Probable Robot (2015)

Comedy, Sci-Fi

Mona and her ex-girlfriend, Jules, broke up six months ago and they still can't manage to have a conversation that doesn't dissolve into an argument. It wouldn't be such a problem if they ... See full summary »

Director: Karyn Ben Singer | Stars: Jonathan Medina, Jeremy Russell, Emily Decker, Mandi Moss

Votes: 20

46. Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode: The Thirteenth Reunion (1980)

TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Ruth, A reporter for the women's section of the newspaper, participates in a weight-loss course with a hidden secret behind it.

Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Julia Foster, Dinah Sheridan, Richard Pearson, Norman Bird

Votes: 711

47. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Parents from Space (1989)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Abusive elderly foster parents of a nice little orphan girl have their bodies taken over by friendly aliens, whose spaceship broke down.

Director: Gerald Cotts | Stars: Frank Gorshin, Peggy Cass, Mary Griffin, Ann Hillary

Votes: 142

48. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: From Within (1996)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A town gets possessed after a dinosaur skeleton that hides ancient parasites that affect the brain and cause madness is unearthed. The only hope is an immune mentally challenged boy who must learn how to destroy them.

Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Christianne Hirt, Patrick Stevenson, Gabrielle Miller

Votes: 354

49. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: The Body Politic (1993)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Family

Jill and Sheriff Brock find themselves on opposite sides when it's revealed that a local dentist is HIV-positive. Meanwhile, Maxine investigates neighbors reports that a new man in town is ... See full summary »

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 92

50. The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode: Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar! (1989)

TV-14 | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An insecure man begins to suspect that the mushrooms his son ordered from a boy's magazine and is growing in the basement may be alien invaders.

Director: David Brandes | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Marc Reid, Patricia Phillips, Judy Mahbey

Votes: 130