François Delambre (Vincent Price) receives a call from his sister-in-law, Helene (Patricia Owens), in which she hysterically confesses to killing her husband, Andre (David Hedison—as Al Hedison). The couple loved each other and had no problems, yet she compressed his head and hand in a press, and now refuses to say why. François discovers that before his
Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz), the son of a scientist who accidentally mixed his DNA with a fly’s, is raised by corporate CEO Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson) as a science experiment. Martin, unaware of his past, grows to adulthood in five years and starts a relationship with Beth Logan (Daphne Zuniga). Then, his dormant mutations become active, and
Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew travel to Altair-IV aboard their flying saucer to investigate the disappearance of the ship, Bellerophon, years earlier. They find that only Dr Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his innocent daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), have survived. Morbius is studying the advanced machinery of a dead race, the Krell,
In a near fevered state, Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has abandoned his upper-class lifestyle, his fiancée Elizabeth (Mae Clarke), and medical school to carry out secret experiments aided only by the hunchback Fritz (Dwight Frye). His goal is to create a living creature from corpses, which he succeeds in doing the night he is visited
Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), the Wolf Man, is freed from his tomb by grave robbers. His search for a way to die takes him to the remains of the Frankenstein manor and the still-living Monster. The Frankenstein franchise had died a well-deserved death, having less than nothing of interest left (but they wouldn’t let
Arrested for multiple murders, scientist Victor Franks (Rhett Giles) tells the story of his experiments to a psychologist. He had developed nonobots for repairing and revitalizing tissue, but an error caused his subject to go insane. Frank killed him, and then brought him back, but what he got was a murderous monster. Did there need to be
In 2031, scientist Joe Buchanan (John Hurt) makes a weapon that has the side effect of ripping holes in reality which may lead to other times or other universes. Buchanan is pulled through one of these tears to what appears to be the 1830s, where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Raul Julia) and his monster
At the moment of his death, Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez), a racecar driver in 1991, is pulled through time to 2009 where his body is meant as a replacement for a dying rich man’s. Alex escapes, finds his old fiancée (Rene Russo), who works for the most powerful businessman in the world (Anthony Hopkins), and together
Dr. Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel) and his assistant, Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) invent a machine that allows anyone within its field to see (and touch) a world that is normally hidden from us. Unfortunately, that means the creatures in it can see them. Their trial ends in tragedy, with Predtorious dead and missing his head, and Tillinghast
Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg agent in Section 9, and her partner, Batô, track a hacker known as The Puppet Master who can control not only machines, but humans. A prime example of Cyberpunk, Ghost in the Shell takes place in the near future, and includes robots, cyborgs, computers, huge corporations, untrustworthy governments, and hacking. It is
Several years after Major Motoko Kusanagi (voice: Atsuko Tanaka) vanished into the computer network, the highly cybornetic Batô (voice: Akio Ôtsuka), with his new partner Togusa (Kôichi Yamadera), are assigned to investigate a string of murders committed by “gynoids” upon their masters. Clues suggest that the huge Locus Lolus corporation is somehow responsible. But more than
In this 4th film in the Frankenstein series, Ygor (Bela Lugosi) takes the wounded Monster (Lon Chaney Jr.) to yet another Doctor Frankenstein (Cedric Hardwicke) who decides that a brain transplant will return the good reputation of his family. Ygor enlists the aid of Doctor Bohmer (Lionel Atwill) to alter the Monster’s operation to fit