Movies like Return of the Fly: 20 to watch next

If you loved Return of the Fly (1959) — a horror and science fiction film directed by Edward Bernds — these 20 movies are the closest matches.

The first picks are what fans of Return of the Fly most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like experiment, teleportation and hybrid. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.

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1
The Asphyx 1972★ 6.0
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
2
The Evil of Frankenstein 1964★ 6.2
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
3
Phase IV 1974★ 6.3
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
4
The Curse of Frankenstein 1957★ 6.8
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
5
The Horror of Frankenstein 1970★ 5.8
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
6
Island of Terror 1966★ 5.9
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
When a small island community becomes overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters that liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures, the community struggles to fight back.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
7
The End of Oak Street 2026★ 7.0
Shares: Science Fiction
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Self/less 2015★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Blood of the Vampire 1958★ 5.8
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his crippled assistant Carl, the 'anemic' Mad Scientist, believed to be a vampire, conducts blood deficiency research on the inmates of a prison hospital for the criminally insane to sustain his return to life.
Stream in India on Cultpix, JustWatch TV Beta
10
Quatermass 2 1957★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Horror
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Stream in India on Artiflix, Plex
11
The Blob 1988★ 6.9
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Tingler 1959★ 6.4
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Stream in India on Plex
13
Rampage 2018★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
Stream in India on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
14
X: The Unknown 1956★ 6.1
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
15
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 2024★ 7.0
Shares: Science Fiction
Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Siren 2016★ 6.0
Shares: Horror
A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Blob 1958★ 6.2
Shares: Horror, Science Fiction
A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
18
Avatar: Fire and Ash 2025★ 7.6
Shares: Science Fiction
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Ultimate Avengers 2 2006★ 6.8
Shares: Science Fiction
Mysterious Wakanda lies in the darkest heart of Africa, unknown to most of the world. An isolated land hidden behind closed borders, fiercely protected by its young king: Black Panther. But when brutal alien invaders attack, the threat leaves Black Panther with no option but to go against the sacred decrees of his people and ask for help from outsiders.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Avatar: The Way of Water 2022★ 7.6
Shares: Science Fiction
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv