Movies tagged with the "mutation" keyword

Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers, Dan Hedaya, J. E. Freeman, Brad Dourif, Raymond Cruz, Leland Orser, Carolyn Campbell, Marlene Bush, David St. James, Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet,  Plot Summary: 200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth.

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Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Actors: Directors: Plot Summary: Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center—which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers....

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Genres: Comedy | Horror | Actors: Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney, Tammy Davis, Glenis Levestam, Tandi Wright, Oliver Driver, Matthew Chamberlain, Nick Fenton, Sam Clarke, Eli Kent, Nick Blake, Richard Chapman, Louis Sutherland, Ian Harcourt, Directors: Jonathan King,  Plot Summary: An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

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Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Stephanie Pettee, Roy Abramsohn, Susan Schramm, Bunny Gibson, Matt Fromm, Nathan Kirkland, Selma Pinkard, Kalena Knox, Brian Jacobs, Leonardo Millán, Magi Avila, Margarita Lugo, Robert Gonzales, Simon Burzynski, Rami Rank, Directors: Ana Clavell,  Plot Summary: There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King's 1982 horror anthology classic. In "Alice", a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In "The Radio", a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in "Call Girl" a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In "The Professor's Wife", a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he's getting married. But there's something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in "Haunted Dog", a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

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Genres: Action | Horror | Thriller | Actors: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, LL Cool J, Michael Rapaport, Stellan Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Aida Turturro, Cristos, Daniel Rey, Valente Rodriguez, Brent Roam, Eyal Podell, Erinn Bartlett, Dan Thiel, Directors: Renny Harlin,  Plot Summary: Samual L Jackson plays a businessman who sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight brain cancer. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester (Saffron Burrows) rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically embiggen shark brains, so that cancer-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...

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Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Actors: Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Jack Nance, Siân Phillips, Jürgen Prochnow, Directors: David Lynch,  Plot Summary: In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his weapons.

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Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi | Actors: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine, Ethan Suplee, Michael Bower, Pat Kilbane, Ty Burrell, Dan Aykroyd, Katharine Towne, Gregory Itzin, Ashley Clark, Michelle Wolff, Sarah Silverman, Directors: Ivan Reitman,  Plot Summary: Glen Canyon, Arizona, the present day. Wayne, practising at night in the desert for his upcoming fireman's exam, witnesses the impact of a meteorite. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College manage to get to the meteorite, which is stuck in the ground at the bottom of a cave. By taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. A little later, Ira Kane finds out that myriads of single-celled life-forms dwell in the fluid, evolve at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What first seems like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate, the Aliens start spreading out, and the Military comes in. Now it all comes down to what Darwin so rightfully stated: Survival of the fittest. And no good idea in sight...

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Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Actors: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, John Getz, Frank C. Turner, Ann Marie Lee, Gary Chalk, Saffron Henderson, Harley Cross, Matthew Moore, Rob Roy, Andrew Rhodes, Pat Bermel, William S. Taylor, Jerry Wasserman, Directors: Chris Walas,  Plot Summary: Seth Brundle was a research scientist whose genes were fused with a housefly in a matter transmission experiment and he transformed into the terrifying mutant creature "Brundlefly" and the journalist who he fell in love with, Vernoica Quaife killed him by blowing out his brains with a shotgun. Veronica has died giving birth to Seth's son Martin. Martin is raised by Seth's evil employer Anton Bartok who requires Martin's help to solve the problems of the Telepods, believing the Telepods are the key for worldwide domination. Growing at a accelerated rate and inheriting his father's mutated genes, Martin finds himself suffering his father's fate as he himself transforming into a even more fierce and terrifying "Brundlefly". Befriend by beautiful computer specialist Beth Logan, Martin sets out a way to cure himself, as the answer lies within the Telepod which is his only chance of saving himself from a terrible death.

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Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Actors: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir, Ian McNeice, Roger La Page, Milan Bahúl, Ondrej Koval, Directors: Kevin Connor,  Plot Summary: Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil.

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Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Bunny Summers, Bruce McGuire, Del Russel, Dale Wyatt, Karen Christenfeld, Andy Miller, John Leamer, Regina Bleesz, Directors: Stuart Gordon,  Plot Summary: Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment.

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Genres: Action | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard, Ona Grauer, Ellie Cornell, Will Sanderson, Enuka Okuma, Kira Clavell, Sonya Salomaa, Michael Eklund, David Palffy, Jürgen Prochnow, Steve Byers, Erica Durance, Birgit Stein, Directors: Uwe Boll,  Plot Summary: This film is a prequel to all of the The House of the Dead video games. Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead...

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Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Actors: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh, Max Ryan, Tom Goodman-Hill, David Hemmings, Terry O'Neill, Rudolf Pellar, Robert Willox, Robert Orr, Directors: Stephen Norrington,  Plot Summary: Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as "The Fantom." This "League" comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng).

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