Creator

Sep 20, 1985

1h 47m

★ 6.0

It's potentially dangerous, probably illegal and definitely crazy.

Overview

With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.

Genres

Comedy

Romance

Science Fiction

Creator Trailers

Cast

Dr. Harry Wolper

Peter O'Toole

Meli

Mariel Hemingway

Boris Lafkin

Vincent Spano

Barbara Spencer

Virginia Madsen

Dr. Sid Kullenbeck

David Ogden Stiers

Paul

John Dehner

Lucy Wolper

Karen Kopins

Pavlo

Kenneth Tigar

Mrs. Mallory

Elsa Raven

Mrs. Pruitt

Lee Kessler

Mr. Spencer

Rance Howard

Mrs. Spencer

Ellen Geer

On his latest expedition, has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his crack-smart research assistant Holly and redneck survivalist Will into a world populated by marauding dinosaurs and painfully slow creatures called Sleestaks. With no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts, the trio must rely on their only ally, a primate named Chaka, to try to survive long enough to figure out a way back home.

6.4

The Hellstrom Chronicle

May 5, 1971

A scientist explains how the savagery and efficiency of the insect world could result in their taking over the world.

6.8

Kikaider Reboot

May 24, 2014

In the near future, the brilliant Dr. Komyoji is enlisted to lead the ARK Project—a scientific endeavor dedicated to forging a brighter tomorrow through robotics. However, the doctor’s mysterious death puts those plans to an abrupt hold... Not long after, the grieving Komyoji children wander into the crosshairs of a black ops squad on the hunt for their father’s research. But from within the cross fire emerges Jiro—a bleeding-edge android programmed to protect the siblings! Now on the run, the Komyojis soon discover their father’s once hopeful ambitions have taken a DARK turn...

6.2

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Apr 2, 1996

A pharmaceutical scientist creates a pill that makes people remember their happiest memory, and although it's successful, it has unfortunate side effects.

6.0

The Stuff

Jun 14, 1985

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

4.4

The Black Hole

Jun 10, 2006

It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.

5.6

Darkman II: The Return of Durant

Jul 11, 1995

Darkman and Durant return and they hate each other as much as ever. This time, Durant has plans to take over the city's drug trade using high-tech weaponry. Darkman must step in and try to stop Durant once and for all.

5.2

Darkman III: Die Darkman Die

Apr 14, 1996

Darkman, needing money to continue his experiments on synthetic skin, steals a crate of cash from drug lord Peter Rooker...

6.0

I'll Follow You Down

Jul 28, 2013

After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.

7.0

Appellation

Oct 23, 2016

In a dystopian future, where one ex-government scientist holds the key to ending the nation's famine, only a government investigator can stand in his way. His secret research is threatened when a neighbour reports his suspicious behaviour.

6.4

Quatermass 2

Jun 17, 1957

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

3.0

Replikator

Jan 1, 1994

In a poisoned world where sunshine kills, a hit squad from the Zyklor Corporation interrupts the testing of a matter replikator capable of duplicating living tissue for the purpose of extending human life. When the smoke clears, scientist Ludovic finds himself framed for murder and on the run from an exact duplicate... of himself. Joining forces with ex-lover Kat Moscow and cynical Detective Valiant, Ludovic follows the bloody path of destruction wrought by a monster with his face.

4.8

Red Planet Mars

May 15, 1952

Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.

5.7

4D Man

Oct 7, 1959

Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass through any object. Scott experiments on himself and discovers that each time he passes through something he ages rapidly. He begins killing people, sucking out their life energies and regaining his youth as a result.

4.6

Invasion of the Bee Girls

Jun 1, 1973

A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.

6.6

Quatermass and the Pit

Nov 9, 1967

A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.

5.2

Attack of the Crab Monsters

Feb 10, 1957

A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team soon discovers that the tests have given rise to crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants intent on increasing their numbers by breeding, then travelling to populated areas to feed, and which do not intend to be stopped by their discoverers.

4.4

The Invisible Maniac

Jul 13, 1990

An invisible scientist escapes from an asylum and teaches high-school physics to nubile teens.

6.3

The Invisible Man Returns

Jan 12, 1940

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

5.7

The Invisible Woman

Dec 27, 1940

Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.