WThe Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866–1946). The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick who is a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. Wells described it as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy."
WDr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2002. It is narrated in the first person. Loosely based on H.G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.
WThe Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1977 American science fiction film and is the second English-language adaptation of the 1896 H. G. Wells novel of the same name, a story of a scientist who attempts to convert animals into human beings. The film stars Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera and Richard Basehart, and is directed by Don Taylor. Makeup was created by John Chambers.
WThe Island of Dr. Moreau is a 1996 American science fiction horror film, the third major film adaptation of the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. The film was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis and Fairuza Balk. The screenplay is credited to the original director Richard Stanley and Ron Hutchinson.
WIsland of Lost Souls (1932) is an American pre-Code science fiction horror film -- the first non-silent film adaptation of the H. G. Wells 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Erle C. Kenton, from a script co-written by science fiction author Philip Wylie. The principal actors were Charles Laughton, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, and Kathleen Burke. The action centers on a remote South Pacific island where mad scientist, Dr. Moreau, secretly conducts experiments to accelerate evolution in plants and animals, with horrific consequences. Teeming with images of cruelty, animal-human hybrids, and threatening irreligious ideas, its release was embroiled in controversy. Banned in some countries for decades, it is now recognized as a sci-fi classic and has acquired cult film status.
WTerror Is a Man is a 1959 black-and-white Filipino/American horror film directed by Gerardo de Leon.
W"Treehouse of Horror XIII" is the first episode of The Simpsons' fourteenth season and the thirteenth Halloween episode. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 3, 2002, three days after Halloween. It is the second Treehouse of Horror to have a zombie related segment, and the last Treehouse of Horror to have three separate writers credited for writing three stories. It is also the first Simpsons Halloween episode to be titled Treehouse of Horror in the opening credits, as all prior Halloween episodes were referred to as The Simpsons Halloween Special.