Probably a spider into a human too but he doesn’t try that.Īndrew doesn’t know how to feel about Moreau once he discovers his secret.

Long story short, he can turn a bear into a human. This lad’s right hand still looks pretty human When he injects an animal with this serum the human gene will replace the genes that define which animal it is, and slowly turn it into a human. He’s invented a serum with a genetic human gene in it. You see, Moreau has stumbled upon a scientific breakthrough that lets him essentially fuck around with a creature’s DNA and do what he wants with it. It turns out those concerns are justified, and the reason they look like animals is because they actually are animals. These natives certainly look like people, but there’s something a bit off about them. “I must say, I’m rather displeased with the new bedroom tax Dr Moreau has established” Sure enough, it soon emerges that the doc’s experiments are related to the odd natives also wandering the island, who Moreau tends to treat rather poorly.

It’s at this point that, were you a gambler, you’d put your cash on him being a bit of a dodgy bastard. Most notable among the island’s residents is Dr Moreau (Lancaster), a charismatic but mysterious scientist who’s conducting secret experiments. York plays Andrew Braddock, a crewman who’s forced to abandon ship and hop into a lifeboat when his vessel sinks during a nasty storm.Īfter days of drifting aimlessly in the lifeboat, Andrew finally washes ashore on an unknown small island, inhabited by a handful of people. “I can’t believe he just called us that.” Oh, and a load of twats dressed up as animals. Wells novel of the same name, stars Michael York (better known to younger generations as Basil Exposition from the Austin Powers films) and Burt Lancaster. The slightly longer answer is “one, The Island Of Dr Moreau“. There are plenty of films that deal with the moral dilemma of playing God: whether it’s right to mess around with nature and what have you.īut how many of those films feature a man dressed up as a bear grappling with a real-life lion and diving off a balcony, dragging it to its death with him? MOREAU – “How does a cell become enslaved to a form, to a destiny it can never change? Can we change that destiny?” Starring: Michael York, Burt Lancaster, Richard Basehart, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera

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