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1) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
3) In the earth
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As the world searches for a cure to a devastating virus, a scientist and a park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run.
6) The asphyx
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blending elements of Gothic horror with the more contemporary ingredients of steampunk, The asphyx has emerged from obscurity to become a cult favorite of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Utilizing an experimental photographic device, a scientist (Robert Stephens) captures what appears to be the image of the Asphyx, the ancient Greek spirit of the dead. With the help of his adopted son (Robert Powell), he conducts further experiments and conceives of a way...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The show reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Five dolls for an August moon is Mario Bava's deliriously mod spin on an Agatha Christie-style whodunit. Bava was so closely associated with the horror genre that this twisting mystery was never released theatrically in the U.S., but it is deliciously entertaining all the same. A space age island retreat is visited by a group of friends and business associates, one of whom is a scientist who has invented a revolutionary chemical process, and is fending...
10) Temple Grandin
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
Publisher
Shout Factory Kids
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The lovable residents of peaceful Kikoriki Island are thrown kicking and screaming into big adventure, when their resident scientist invests an amazing device, a helmet called 'the Improverizor', which takes personality traits from one person and swaps them with someone else's.
15) Altered states
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The incredible terrifying tale of a research scientist experimenting with altered states of consciousness, and the horrors he finds in secret landscapes of the mind.
16) Hard to be a God
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Russian
Description
When legendary Russian auteur Aleksei German died in 2013, he left behind this extraordinary final film, a phantasmagoric adaptation of the revered sci-fi novel by the Strugatsky Brothers (authors of the source novel for Tarkovsky's Stalker). Hard to be a God began percolating in German's consciousness in the mid-1960s, and would actively consume him for the last 15 years of his life. He brought the film close enough to completion for his wife and...
17) Hard to be a God
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Russian
Description
Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Fullscreen.
Language
English
Description
Penny and her family are lured on an all expenses paid vacation to Legoom Island where Dr. Carver, a mad scientist, holds them captive after Oscar Proud refuses to reveal his secret Proud Snacks formula for Kicking Donkey Dipping Sauce.
19) Stalker
Series
Criterion collection volume 888
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. At the end they must...
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
From comedic masterminds Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland comes Adult Swim's newest series. It follows the adventures of mad scientist Rick Sanchez, who returns after twenty years to live with his daughter, her husband, and their children Morty and Summer. Includes all eleven episodes.
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