The Island of Dr. Moreau

On a remote tropical island, Dr. Moreau has appointed himself ruler over a menagerie of genetic mutants fashioned in his gene-splicing chamber of horrors. The products of his misguided attempt to create a more "pure" human species, the man-beasts worship Moreau as their god and "father" and live by ...more

Troubled by cast and crew changes, constant script revisions and poor advance press, this oddball adaptation of the H.G. Wells story represents one of horror cinema's more interesting failures. Marlon Brando assays the title role in one of the goofiest performances of his increasingly eccentric career, playing Wells' seminal mad scientist in pristine cleric's robes, dark glasses and clown-white makeup. Veteran action director John Frankenheimer (who stepped in after Richard Stanley was removed ...more