Cinema of the Damned
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Dr. Cyclops
›1940 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 76m · Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
The Magnetic Monster
›NR1953 · Science Fiction, Horror · 76m · Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Leo Britt
The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and radioactivity in Los Angeles, and discovers that a man-made isotope is consuming available energy from nearby mass every few hours, doubling its size in the process. Although microscopic, it will soon become big enough to destroy Earth; and how to stop it is yet to be determined. The film's Deltatron special effects footage is taken from the 1934 German sci-fi film GOLD.
Hollow Man
›R2000 · Action, Science Fiction, Thriller · 112m · Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
The Lawnmower Man
›R1992 · Science Fiction, Horror · 108m · Jeff Fahey, Pierce Brosnan, Jenny Wright
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Raptor
›R2001 · Horror, Thriller · 82m · Eric Roberts, Corbin Bernsen, Melissa Brasselle
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
