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1) The children
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two retired nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request" --
2) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth." --
3) Poor things
Language
English
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Description
"From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices...
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
20230503
Language
English
Description
"Two women scientists, living hundreds of years apart, explore the meaning of love. motherhood, family, art, and science in this contemporary comedy. Legacy of Light juxtaposes the story of Emilie du Chatelet, a mathematician, scientist, and lover of the great eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire, who became unexpectedly pregnant at forty-two, and that of a twenty-first-century physicist desperately trying to conceive a child."-- back cover.
8) Hulk
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A scientist performs regeneration experiments on himself, and passes on the genes to his son, Bruce. Now Bruce is performing experiments that expose him to radiation and nanomeds, which combined with his unique genes, unleashes the Hulk." --
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new journey begins when young adventurer Sean receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist, a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter, they set out to find the island.
10) Collision Earth
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"When the sun becomes a magnetar, the planet Mercury is thrown out of orbit and heads towards Earth."--
11) From beyond
Language
English
Formats
Description
After inventing a way for creatures from the fourth dimension to come into his own world, Dr. Edward Pretorious suffers a gruesome decapitation at the hands of those he brought 'from beyond.' But authorities suspect his assistant is to blame. A beautiful psychiatrist is brought in to help police solve the case.
12) Eleventh hour
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Scientific troubleshooter for the British government professor Ian Hood and his Scottish bodyguard Rachel Young take on rogue scientists and the world-wide troubles they cause.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Considered by many to be the finest film version of this classic tale. The doctors team up to create monsters from dead body parts. A truly chilling and epic take on the story that has frightened generation after generation!
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression called The Abomination whose powers match that of...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A team of forensic investigators are on the case 24/7, scouring the scene, collecting the irrefutable evidence, and finding the missing pieces that will solve the mystery. Features 22 gripping episodes, commentary, featurettes, deleted scenes, and more.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Circa 1939 ace city reporter Polly Perkins has noted the sudden disappearances of many of the world's most famous scientists. After the city falls under attack of giant flying robots, she decides to team up with her ex-boyfriend, aviation officer Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan and flys around the world in search of the evil mastermind, Dr. Totenkopf, whose plan it is to create a new world by destroying the one of today.
18) Serial chillers: classic monster movies : Doctor Blood's coffin ; Fury of the Wolfman ; The brainiac
Series
Publisher
Vintage Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Three classic monster movies involving werewolfs, mind-control experiments, brain-eating monsters, and mad scientists.
20) Igor
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world filled with mad scientists and evil inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist himself. He dreams of winning the annual evil science fair. Determined to prove he can create his own diabolical invention, Igor creates a female Franken-monster. But his creation, Eva, is sweet and sings. That is, until she falls into the clutches of Dr. Schadenfreude.