Homunculus is a 1916 German silent science fiction serial film directed by Otto Rippert and written by Robert Reinert.

When it discovers it is unable to feel emotions, it goes on a rampage and starts creating havoc in a nearby German village.

The Reinert's script is loosely based on epic poem Homunculus written by Robert Hamerling in 1888.

[5] The plot is very similar to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, wherein a living creature (called a homunculus) is created artificially in a laboratory and strives to develop emotions like a human being.

After Deutsche Bioscop merged in spring 1920 with Decla-Film to form Decla-Bioscop, the film was heavily edited down to three chapters and re-released with colored tints and intertitles in September 1920.