Through DNA experimentation, Dr. Moreau has upset the balance of nature.
A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.
- Body horror
- Animal harm
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Classical in form, bleak, grave and raw.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Marlon BrandoDr. Moreau
- Val KilmerMontgomery
- David ThewlisDouglas
- Fairuza BalkAissa
- Ron PerlmanSayer of the Law
- Marco HofschneiderM'Ling
- Temuera MorrisonAzazello
- William HootkinsKiril
- Daniel RigneyHyena-Swine
- Nelson de la RosaMajai
Crew
- John FrankenheimerDirector
- Richard StanleyScreenplay
- Ron HutchinsonScreenplay
- H. G. WellsNovel
- William A. FrakerDirector of Photography
- Gary ChangOriginal Music Composer
- Paul RubellEditor
- Adam P. ScottEditor
- Thom NobleEditor
- Edward R. PressmanProducer
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