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Science can cure diseases, fortify crops against changing climates, and connect humans on opposite sides of the planet. But as horror films show, science can also warp and destroy. Sometimes the experimenters' intentions were good, and things just got out of control. Other times they had ill-will from the beginning.

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Science gone wrong has been a literary and cinematic staple for centuries. Humans are curious, but also afraid of where their curiosity will lead them. For audiences, watching scientists push the boundaries of research — and seeing it all come crashing down — is its own delicious reward. In horror, even brilliant experiments lead to ruinous ends.

10 Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's 1818 novel and James Whale's film have more than their title in common: each was, for their time, the most terrifying realization of science gone awry. Frankenstein and his monster might be memes today, but this 1931, black-and-white film remains haunting in its own right , even to viewers desensitized by a hundred trick-or-treaters with green face paint and stick-on bolts.

Frankenstein is perhaps the definitive example of scientific overreach, as overconfidence begets tragedy and a monster lurches forth from the storm. In some viewers' minds, it might not stand toe-to-toe with the best horror movies of the 2010s, but it deserves to.

9 American Mary

Jen and Sylvia Soska's 2012 film American Mary is equal parts damning social critique and jolly bloodfest. As bloody and disconcerting as the best modern slashers, here is a film that manages to be introspective, repulsive, and fun all at once. Mary is a surgical student in desperate need of money, and when she accepts $5,000 to perform emergency surgery on a criminal, she steps into the strange and shadowy world of experimental medicine.

The actors playing Mary's clients were plucked from the real-world body modification scene, and as such, the film doesn't even have to fake much of its more incredible imagery. American Mary is a funny, twisted take on experimental horror, and it takes braver strides than most of its competition can dream of.

8 Re-Animator

Based on the 1922 H.P. Lovecraft short story "Herbert West-Reanimator," Re-Animator is a modern revitalization of Frankenstein. It takes the basic premise of reanimated corpses run amok and dropping it in a modern setting.

After Herbert invents a serum that can bring the dead back to life, his first test subject is his dead professor. Unfortunately for Herbert, and everyone else in the immediate vicinity, the serum only brings people back to a zombie-like state . Watching the protagonist rush to cope with his increasingly out-of-control experiment is a pleasure. Just don't expect a a happy ending in this horror flick.

7 From Beyond

Another film taking a big swing at the Lovecraft canon, Stuart Gordon's From Beyond follows a pair of scientists trying to stimulate the pineal gland. They discover that their device has an unforeseen side effect: the ability to perceive monsters from another dimension.

This bad start gets worse when the creatures snatch up one of the scientists, transform him into a monster, and set him loose on earth to feast upon his former colleagues. Unlike the unseen ghosts of many of the best haunted house films, From Beyond wants viewers to see everything. Gooey, campy, and imbued with just enough satire and thematic layering that it rewards repeated viewing, From Beyond is terrific.

Kevin Smith is not a name that many associate with horror, but after Tusk, it should be. "Getting turned into a walrus" probably isn't high on many people's fear lists either, but Tusk corrects that oversight as well.

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In Tusk, a retired seaman kidnaps podcast host Howard Howe with the intention of turning him into a walrus in body and mind. A true black comedy, Tusk alternates between savagely funny and simply savage. It's an upsetting film in all the right ways and proves beyond any doubt that its director is capable of more than zany buddy comedies.

5 The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)

The less said about the revoltingly graphic violence of this film, the better. Anyone remotely interested in its subject matter has likely already seen this film, then showed it off to any friend with a sturdy enough constitution to sit through it. Director Tom Six is, if nothing else, an expert in body horror and sickening experimentation.

The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is as masterfully conceived as it is gross. It is among the most terrifying black-and-white horror movies, with a villainous "researcher" that any character with the slightest sense of self-preservation would stay well away from. This film is not for the faint of heart or stomach.

4 Antiviral

Directed by Brandon Cronenberg, son of famed body horror filmmaker David, Antiviral is a novel exploration of the meeting point between celebrity obsession and science. Syd March works for the Lucas Clinic, an organization devoted to collecting viruses from sick celebrities so that fans may inject them and feel closer to their beloved entertainers.

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This warped premise may be one of the genre's best for sheer audacity and creep-factor, and the rest of the film clears the same high bar it sets. Antiviral takes its body horror identity seriously, and audiences should be ready for some shocking imagery.

3 Cabin Fever

People get sick all the time, and sometimes it's nothing to worry about. Not so in Cabin Fever by acclaimed horror director Eli Roth. Some college students' vacation into the mountains is catapulted into tragedy when one of them accidentally shoots a man in the woods. Worse? The dead man has a skin infection, and when his body falls into the reservoir, that infection spreads.

Cabin Fever is graphic, but also terrifying on a more basic level. Its characters deteriorate physically and mentally, literally unable to keep themselves together as the situation worsens. This film is as good as any of horror's best from 2021.

Though it may lack the CGI grandeur of more recent entries, 1954's Godzilla is the best in the horror franchise. This classic of atomic horror played on 1950s audiences' all-too-real fear of nuclear annihilation, putting a face to the new global threat by embodying it as a city-leveling reptile.

Godzilla leverages its campy practical effects in the best ways possible and more than achieves its goal of terrifying viewers. For those adapted to horror's more recent emphasis on jump scares and gore, Godzilla may not seem so horrifying. However, this film ranks among the greats for its cultural impact and expert manipulation of the fears of the time.

1 The Fly

Some directors aren't content until viewers want to crawl out of their own skin. Cronenberg's remake of the 1957 Vincent Price classic is one of the genre's most famous examples as well as its best. Eccentric scientist Seth Brundle is working on a teleportation device, but when a fly enters the teleportation chamber at the moment of ignition, Seth's DNA is spliced with that of the fly.

This lab accident initiates arguably the best devolution sequence in cinema, as masterful prosthetics and practical effects transform Seth into an unrecognizable monstrosity. The Fly projects the graphic consequences of scientific hubris, and for that, the film will always reign supreme.

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Underrated Sci-Fi Horror Movies Where Scientists Go Too Far

Yes, everyone loves Jurassic Park and Planet of the Apes - but what about the underrated "science experiment gone wrong" movies? The lesser-known films where humanity's reach exceeds its grasp? The parables about the dangers of science unchecked?

These are B-movie classics like 1958's The Fly and 1985's Re-Animator . These are undervalued modern flicks like 2009's Splice , 2019's Little Joe , and 2020's Possessor . And, yes, these are the sci-fi/horror films based on the work of literary icons like H. G. Wells ( The Island of Doctor Moreau ) and Stephen King ( Firestarter ). Thank goodness real-life science is nothing like the movies.

If you're planning on making a human-animal hybrid being, maybe don't. It just seems like a bad idea right from the get-go. For whatever reason, Adrien Brody's Clive Nicoli and Sarah Polley's Elsa Kast - the protagonists of 2009's Splice - think this is a brilliant idea.

Even though their employers basically prohibit the pair of scientists from creating said hybrid, they do so anyway. And Elsa, in her infinite wisdom, even uses her own DNA during the experiment, essentially making the hybrid her own offspring. The hybrid (eventually named Dren) turns out to be a murderous creature that changes genders and ends up impregnating its genetic mother before being taken out by a rock to the head. Needless to say, Splice is anything but a happy movie.

Miramax Films

Mimic may not be the best-reviewed sci-fi picture ever released, but it's better than its reputation would have you believe (and it's directed by Guillermo del Toro). Besides, with a cast that includes Mira Sorvino, Josh Brolin, F. Murray Abraham, and Norman Reedus, you could do far worse on a Sunday afternoon than pop this on your preferred streaming service.

With cockroaches spreading a deadly disease to various Manhattan children, Sorvino's Dr. Susan Tyler is brought in to create a mantis-termite hybrid that releases an enzyme that causes the roaches to burn calories faster than they can eat. This eradicates the roaches and stops the spread of the virus. However, only a few years later, this hybrid has gone through an untold number of generations so rapidly that it has mutated the ability to mimic humanity.

It's up to Susan and her allies to end the hybrid for good. From there, the film is pretty boilerplate, but it certainly is good fun.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

In the mood for a well-crafted (if predictable) creature feature from the 1980s? Well, 1989's Leviathan fits the bill perfectly. Peter Weller leads an undersea mining crew that stumbles upon an old USSR shipwreck. After a couple of crew members begin to mutate and die, the miners figure out that the Soviets were experimenting on the crew of the old shipwreck with unstable mutagens.

Why were they experimenting on the crew of a ship with unstable mutagens? Does it really matter? You're here for some good, old-fashioned body horror, and Leviathan has that in spades. And if Peter Weller, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, and Hector Elizondo are all there having a fun time, shouldn't that be good enough for you?

Why would any self-respecting scientist trust a mysterious alien transmission? Doesn't that just seem like they're asking for trouble? Alas, when aliens respond to a human transmission with instructions on how to splice specific alien DNA with human DNA, Ben Kingsley's Xavier Fitch just does it, no questions asked.

Is it any surprise the resulting experiment ends up being a murderous hybrid hellbent on producing offspring to do away with the entire human race? Of course it isn't surprising because Species is an R-rated horror film, not a family-friendly Disney movie. Anyway, Species is a fun sci-fi/horror film with a stellar cast that includes Kingsley, Michael Madsen, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, and Natasha Henstridge as the hybrid monster.

20th Century Fox

Seeing as 1986's The Fly is the biggest box-office hit of David Cronenberg's long career and was a critical success at the time, we have to turn our eyes back to the 1958 original of the same name. Yes, it's a B movie from the 1950s. Yes, it's severely outdated by any modern standard. Yes, David Hedison looks hilarious with a shoddy fly prosthetic on his head. But there's just something about The Fly that defies all of that.

Somehow, it has stood the test of time and is seen as a classic of the genre, with modern critics heaping praise on it left and right. It helps that the legendary Vincent Price is there doing his thing, but it's difficult to put your finger on why The Fly works - it just does.

Firestarter

Universal Pictures

In light of the Zac Efron-starring remake of Firestarter , let's talk about the 1984 original based on Stephen King's 1980 novel of the same name. During the beginning of the movie, two college kids participate in an experiment in which they are dosed with a hallucinogen. For whatever reason, this gives each of them different telepathic abilities.

These two college kids grow up, get married, and have a daughter named Charlie. Wouldn't you know it, Charlie ends up having pyrokinetic abilities, and the government wants to weaponize her. Cue the chaos.

Firestarter is more of a fun B movie than a "great" sci-fi/horror film, but Barrymore gives a convincing performance as an emotionally stunted girl struggling to come to terms with her outrageous power.

Re-Animator

Empire International Pictures

Re-Animator may lack the dedicated cult following of films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show or The Room , but that doesn't mean this X-rated horror-comedy doesn't have its own cult legacy. Really, to describe Re-Animator is to do it no justice. It needs to be seen to be believed.

It follows the exploits of a young medical student who's figured out how to bring dead tissue back to life. What results is a madcap comedy with more gore than your average slasher flick. In the grand tradition of schlocky B-movie fun, Re-Animator is the kind of movie your mother would be appalled by... which is exactly why it's a movie you need to watch.

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Leave it to Paul Verhoeven to bring a big-budget sci-fi/horror movie to the big screen. The man behind RoboCop , Basic Instinct , and Showgirls only knows how to go big, and spending nearly $100 million on what amounts to a modern-day update to The Invisible Man is undoubtedly a major swing for the fences.

Kevin Bacon stars as Dr. Sebastian Caine, a molecular biologist who has created a serum that renders its user invisible. Amazingly, the idiot-genius decides to test the serum on himself and, surprise, he can't reverse the process. Chaos ensues as Sebastian pretty much loses his mind, assaults a woman, offs a dog, and murders a few of his co-workers.

It isn't the best movie around, but it is your typical Verhoeven sleaze-fest, if that kind of thing is up your alley. Also, don't test your fancy creations on yourself, scientists! If Hollywood has taught us anything over the years, that's it.

Deep Blue Sea

Warner Bros.

So, Deep Blue Sea is a bad movie; however, Deep Blue Sea is a great bad movie. It's one of those films you can't help but enjoy. It's about a team of scientists who use sharks for Alzheimer's disease research, only to have the genetically engineered sharks (why?) go on a murderous rampage (again, why ?).

It's got a famous Samuel L. Jackson speech that ends with him getting swallowed whole by a shark. LL Cool J plays a cook named Preacher who has a parrot for some reason. It's dumb. It's hokey. It's amazing. Seriously, if you don't have some kind of fun watching the trainwreck that is Deep Blue Sea , you're taking yourself far too seriously.

Casts are rarely as stacked as that of 2016's Morgan . Seriously, it's pretty astonishing how much talent they managed to cram into this low-budget sci-fi/horror film: Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Boyd Holbrook, Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Giamatti, Brian Cox - it reads like a Marvel Studios film or a Wes Anderson picture. Mara stars as Lee Weathers, a specialist who has been called in to analyze Taylor-Joy's artificial being, Morgan, after a violent incident.

We'll spare you the twist ending if you end up being in the mood to watch this one someday, but it is fun to watch Mara and Taylor-Joy bounce off of each other in this one. Morgan isn't breaking any new ground, but there is something to be said for good genre filmmaking.

The Lazarus Effect

Relativity Media

The Lazarus Effect (2015) came out of nowhere to gross a healthy near-$40 million at the box office on the back of a budget that was just above $3 million upon its release. The premise? A group of researchers accidentally stumble upon a serum that brings people back from the grave, and bedlam ensues.

The themes of scientific morality, life and death, and what happens after we die have been done in bigger, better movies, but The Lazarus Effect just wants to have a good time - and who are we to stop it? Besides, it brings Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters, Donald Glover, and Ray Wise to the party. It also has an ending that's just begging for a sequel that will clearly never happen at this point - but we can always dream, right?

The Island of Dr. Moreau

American International Pictures

The Island of Doctor Moreau may not be as popular as other H.G. Wells novels like The Time Machine , The Invisible Man , and The War of the Worlds , but it stands the test of time as a major work of science fiction.

The story about a mad scientist who creates an island filled with human-animal hybrid beings has been adapted for film and television numerous times - most famously in the notorious 1996 flop of the same name starring Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, and Marlon Brando - but the best adaptation has to be the 1977 version, which features Burt Lancaster and Michael York.

Sure, the special effects are extremely dated by modern standards, but all the questions about scientific morality remain intact. Also, Lancaster, York, and Davenport fare much better than Kilmer, Thewlis, and Brando do.

Elevation Pictures

Following in his father's footsteps, Brandon Cronenberg knocked it out of the park with the psychological horror of 2020's Possessor . In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might've missed the hubbub surrounding this independent flick. Having grossed under a million dollars at the worldwide box office, it seems clear that more people need to watch this stylish masterpiece of disturbing sci-fi/horror.

Possessor follows the exploits of an assassin who uses brain implants to take control of other people's bodies and commit murders. It seems straightforward, but this movie is anything but as the main character, played by Andrea Riseborough, begins to lose track of her own sanity as time goes on. If you've got the stomach, Possessor is well worth the time.

BFI Distribution

This little-seen indie film is more sci-fi drama than sci-fi horror, but the outcome stays with you regardless. The plot may be less vicious than the classic thrillers one traditionally associates with the genre, but it's no less insidious.

The movie follows the exploits of a plant breeder, Alice, who has created a new flower called "Little Joe." As the people around her begin to experience changes in temperament and attitude, Alice and her co-worker Bella begin to suspect that the pollen Little Joe produces is subtly altering those who take it in.

By the end of the film, Bella has suffered a mysterious accident, Alice has been exposed to the pollen, and Little Joe is going to be sold worldwide. It's not the most bombastic film, but it is an inventive little picture that feels much more realistic than your average sci-fi/horror movie.

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The 20 Best Movies About Human Experiments

A relatively common trope in horror films and psychological thrillers, the concept of human experiments is truly horrific due to the realities of their existence. From World War II Nazi experiments to the birth of psychology field testing, the implantation of testing humans has resulted in a lot of suffering, but also a lot of knowledge about human behavior.

Therefore, the of human experimentation often results in two sides – that the overall good of knowledge counterbalances anything bad that can come out of the experiment, which is the mentality commonly seen in the experimenter, and the counterargument that nothing good can come out of anything bad is generally led by the subjects or victims.

From 1930’s Frankenstein to 1960’s French science fiction to today’s exploitation of horror films as seen in the “Saw” and “Human Centipede” franchises, the theme has had a long tradition.

20. Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975)

Don Edmonds’ endeavour into the nazisploitation genre follows Ilsa (Dyanne Thorne), a Kommandant of a Nazi prison camp. She conducts sadistic scientific experiments to fellow women in order to prove to the higher ranked officers that women are more capable of enduring pain than men are, and therefore should be allowed to fight in the German armed forces, since the Nazi military are in dire need of reinforcements.

Besides torturing women, every night she chooses male prisoners and rapes them and after she finishes with them, she castrates and kills them.

Even though the film is not for the light-hearted and extremely exploitative (hence nazisploitation), the sex-addicted sadist Ilsa is patterned after real-life murderous female Nazi camp personnel Ilse Koch and Irma Grese.

Before the film begins, there is a notice saying: “The film you are about to see is based on documented fact. The atrocities shown were conducted as ‘medical experiments’ in special concentration camps throughout Hitler’s Third Reich.

Although these crimes against humanity are historically accurate, the characters depicted are composites of notorious Nazi personalities; and the events portrayed, have been condensed into one locality for dramatic purposes. Because of its shocking subject matter, this film is restricted to adult audiences only. We dedicate this film with the hope that these heinous crimes will never happen again.”

The film was followed by three sexploitation sequels, Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977) and Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia (1977).

19. Re-Animator (1985)

Stuart Gordon’s science fiction horror comedy loosely based on the H. P. Lovecraft episodic novella “Herbert West–Reanimator” follows Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), a medical student, as he successfully brings his dead professor back to life, but finds that there are horrible side-effects which end up re-killing Gruber.

West moves away to continue his experiments with the help of fellow medical student, Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), as they try convince the University’s Dean, Dr. Alan Halsey (Robert Sampson), about the possibilities of reanimation of the dead.

Originally, Gordon was going to adapt Lovecraft’s story for the stage, and then planned to make a half-hour television pilot, and then reformatted the pilot and the twelve episodes which were planned to follow to be maximized to an hour.

Eventually they decided on making a standard film since the majority of the horror fan bases were found to watch films more than television. Gordon and his writers, Dennis Paoli and William Norris, also intended it to be a period piece at the beginning of the 20th Century, but found it to be too over-budget and hence landed on adapting it to modern-day Chicago.

The fast pace, deadpan humour and bloody special-effects led to the integration of B-grade thrillers, surrealist art and 80s comedy and to an overall cult classic.

18. The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Franklin J. Schaffner’s British-American science fiction thriller based on the novel of the same name by Ira Levin follows young Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) and retired Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) as they track down a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals, including the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, who are, themselves, tracking down 94 seemingly random men in different countries, including Austria, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, the United States, and kill them.

Lieberman follows Kohler’s leads and begins travelling to investigate the suspicious deaths of these men. He meets their widows and is astonished to find an eerie resemblance in their adopted, black-haired, blue-eyed sons, who all have similar mannerisms despite being from different places and speaking various languages.

Lieberman also discovers strange similarities with regards to the assassinated men’s cold attitudes towards the boy, the mother’s affectionate bond, and the ages of the parents during the time of adoption. The reason behind the uncanny resemblance is astoundingly chilling as Schaffner utilises iconic actors to tell an original tale that reimagines history and questions the “what if” attitudes of World War II.

The film gained three Academy Award nominations in the following categories – Best Actor (Laurence Olivier), Film Editing (Robert Swink) and for Original Score (Jerry Goldsmith). Gregory Peck was also recognised at the Golden Globes, earning a nomination for Best Actor is a Drama.

17. The Sylvian Experiments (2010)

Hiroshi Takahashi’s Japanese horror follows two sisters, Miyuki and Kaori, who are daughters of two neurosurgeons, Etsuko Ōta and Yukio. They all see a documentary of a secret experiment where the Japanese, Manchu, and Russian subjects’ temporal lobes are electrified until the subjects are strangely able to project a blinding white light.

Years later, Etsuko plans on conducting a similar experiment and recruits her daughter, Miyuki, as well as others to commit mass suicide assisted by Etsuko’s assistant, Hattori, as part of their initiation into the experiment. Miyuki wakes up inside a facility and is told that she has died and is currently astral projecting.

After having lost contact with her sister for six months, Kaori tracks down her last movements as she sees and talks to her in her dreams. Soon, her mother takes Kaori to the facility to learn about the experiment.

Etsuko reveals that she and Kaori have always wanted to become enlightened by the true reality beyond the current one in order to achieve a spiritual evolution. Takahashi, known as a screenwriter of “Ring”, once again utilises the source of thought through video since the documentary they initially saw sparked off their quest for enlightenment through experimentation.

16. Exam (2009)

Stuart Hazeldine’s psychological thriller, set in a parallel version of present-time United Kingdom, follow eight candidates as they sit for an employment assessment exam for the company, DATAPREV.

The Invigilator explains that the exam is 80 minutes and consists of only one question, but there are three rules that if broken, lead to disqualification. They must not talk to him or the armed guard at the door, they must not “spoil” their paper, and they must not leave the room. Each desk contains a question paper with the word “candidate”, followed by a number, from one to eight.

Set in real time, the exam begins and it is revealed that the papers are blank. One candidate is immediately disqualified, leaving the remaining seven – nicknamed Black, White, Brown, Dark, Blonde, Brunette, and Deaf – referring to their skin and hair colours, to realize that they can talk to each other and work together.

“White”, who is arrogant and rude, takes control of the group as they try to figure out how to reveal any hidden questions on the paper. The group manipulates tricks and uses each other in hopes of their disqualification. The scenario soon becomes dangerous, but they cannot talk to the armed guard or the invigilator for help.

Nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, Hazeldine’s film makes incredible use of a single location, a few actors, and a tense countdown clock to the end of the exam, and subsequently, the end of the film. With multiple twists and turns, one wonders what job could be so important for such a chillingly claustrophobic interview, and Hazeldine does not disappoint.

15. Dead Ringers (1998)

David Cronenberg’s psychological thriller based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel “Twins”, follow Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Jeremy Irons) who are identical twins and gynecologists who specialise in female fertility treatment.

The more confident and cynical of the two, Elliot, seduces women patients and when he eventually gets bored of them, passes them off to the shy and passive Beverly, without the women even realising that they have switched.

However, soon Beverly gets a girl by himself, Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold), who realises the difference between the two brothers.

The two become close, but she soon leaves town for work, sending Beverly into a depressive episode and leading him to abuse prescription drugs, become slave to paranoid delusions and see “mutant women” with abnormal genitalia. He must “fix” these women and commissions metallurgical artist Anders Wolleck to create a set of strange gynecological instruments specifically for operating on these fictional, mutant women.

Cronenberg, who is a master of body horror, is no stranger to graphic imagery and psychological dishevelling. Another film of his which could fall under this list is “The Fly” (1986), which follows Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum), an eccentric scientist who has just successfully managed to create a teleportation device, and is anxious to use it himself.

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A Clockwork Orange (1971) Men Behind the Sun (1988) Martyrs (2008) The Human Centipede (2009) Experimenter (2015) The Stanford Prsion Experiment (2015)

Experimenter (2015) is actually very good! I liked that movie.

I’d also site A Clockwork Orange.

Also, for what it’s worth, Bruce Joel Rubin’s original screenplay of Jacob’s Ladder didn’t include the, imo, wholly unnecessary, military conducting experiments upon soldiers unwittingly via violence-enhancing hallucinogenics to advance (or explain away) the plot, or muddy it up, depending upon one’s take on it! …considering that it’s essentially a story about the human soul’s brief time between earthly existence and the afterlife.

Initially, the story was more overtly rooted in Christian themes, iconography and metaphysics (Dante’s Inferno, Meister Eckhart, winged angels, fire and brimstone, etc) but when it was decided to remove the more obvious Heaven and Hell references and imagery and instead make those elements more symbolic and suggestive, the military drugging soldiers shtick, although an unfortunate fact of how the military operates, was likewise brought to the table to help make the already-confusing-to-American-audiences story of Jacob’s Ladder a bit more cohesive/palatable for audiences accustomed to Large Print stories (the screenplay was written in the 1970s, and no studio would touch it for many yrs)

Don’t get me wrong–the plot still works with that 11th hour military bit added in while not completely ruining the central spiritual gist of the story …but after knowing that Rubin’s org screenplay was much broader in scope, and even creepier–Jake’s subjective experience was initially going to accompany the biblical Apocalypse, with all of NYC turning into a Hades–the whole military/drugging angle seems like an clunky, unnecessary red herring of sorts that wasn’t needed to explain to audiences what was happening to the protagonist. For those interested, Rubin’s screenplay–along with many of his ruminations on writing the story–is, or used to be, available in paperback book form.

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Does this book have the same name? Sounds interesting.

‘Altered States’ ??

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Top 2 should be Shutter Island and The Skin I Live In.

Please, please edit your lists before they are published. There are many good lists here that I won’t share because of typos and mistakes. Makes the site look like amateur hour.

I hope people who create word games and other internet activities that require English words, see your comment. Because I am an educated adult, I usually immediately recognize misspelled words. But what about the young learner and those just learning to read? There are a good many people who accept the written word as “gospel.” Whatever one writes for the general public should ALWAYS be correctly spelled!