http://www.scienceplusfiction.org daily 1 2005-11-16T12:10:05Z http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/28_days_later Waking from a coma in a deserted London hospital, Jim takes to the deserted city streets in a state of mystified confusion. Joining forces with another group of survivors following a terrifying encounter in a seemingly abandoned church, Jim soon learns the truth behind the deserted streets and the menacing creatures that lurk in the shadows. Is there still a glimmer of hope for humanity? No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/1984 In a totalitarian society of the future, every form of individuality is forbidden. Rules are made by an invisible “Big Brother” who, thanks to his followers, controls the actions of the population in such a way that nobody can have any subversive thought. Edmond O’Brien is an officer of the government, happy with his job until he commits an illegal action: he falls in love. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:12Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/man_on_the_beach_en Masquerading as the glamorous Lady M, Max persuades the casino owner to part with a large sum of money. However, during the getaway Max is shot in the shoulder. He barely manages to make his way to the only house on the deserted beach before collapsing. When he wakes he see Lady M’s clothes hung up neatly and knows that the only way out of this house is by murdering those inside. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:19Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/brazil_en Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka’s The Trial in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr.Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/code_46 William investigates on a fraud against the insurance company Sphinx in Shangai. He finds out that the responsible for the fraud is Marie, a girl who works for the company. William knows well that Marie is guilty and that she must pay for what she has done, but an unexpected event prevents him from handing her over to the police: he falls in love with her, and this will change his life forever. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/doctor_jeckyll_sister_hyde In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:20Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/dracula Dr. Van Helsing, investigating the death of his friend concludes that Jonathan Harker was the victim of a blood-sucking vampire. When Harker’s fiancée, Lucy, becomes trapped by the terrifying force and hypnotic power of Count Dracula, Van Helsing releases her tortured soul by driving a stake through her heart. But Dracula persists in seeking revenge against Harker, targeting Lucy’s beautiful sister, Mina. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:20Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/first_men_in_the_moon The first manned U.N. space flight lands on the Moon only to discover a tattered Union Jack and a message written in 1899. On Earth, the experts track down an old man, Arnold Bedford, in an institution, who tells them how he had indeed reached the Moon, over sixty years ago, in the anti-gravity spaceship invented and piloted by his eccentric neighbour, Professor Cavor. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:15Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/frankenstein_monster_from_hell Dr. Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate. Frankenstein utilises Helder’s medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:20Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/frankenstein_must_be_destroyed The Baron, desperate for vital medical information, abducts Dr. Brandt, a former colleague, from an insane asylum. On route the doctor dies and the Baron transplants his brain into the body of a dead professor. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery... Frankenstein. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:20Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/gorgo_en A prehistoric monster, caught by a tiny Irish island, is shipped to London to be exhibited in a circus, despite the warnings of scientists that the monster is undoubtedly a mere infant. Panic sweeps Britain as their theory proves correct, and the monster’s angry mother trundles towards London. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:14Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/mysterious_island During the American Civil War, Cyrus Harding, escapes from a Confederate prison with Privates Herbert Brown and Neb, after seizing a hot-air balloon. Blown far out into the Pacific Ocean they eventually land on a remote South Sea island, where they encounter various giant creatures, two shipwrecked English ladies, a band of pirate cut-throats and, finally, Captain Nemo, and his submarine Nautilus. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:14Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/quatermass_pit Dr Matthew Roney and his assistant Barbara Judd are called to inspect some unusual prehistoric skulls exposed during building work on an extension to the London Underground system, and further excavations reveal a large object resembling a rocket. When the object is finally penetrated, large locust-like beings are unearthed. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:15Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/quatermass_xperiment Britain’s first rocket has been successfully launched and returns to Earth. Only one of the three spacemen remains on board. He is put under strict observation but his wife smuggles him out of the hospital only to unleash the biggest threat ever to civilisation. For the survivor is being consumed by an alien force, who gains strength from human flesh to multiple and grow, threatening to engulf and kill all living organisms. Professor Quatermass must find a way to overcome the thing before it becomes impossible. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:19Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/taste_of_fear Wheelchair bound, Penny Appleby, arrives to stay with her father and new wife, but on arrival he is not there. Together with the chauffeur she uncovers the body. Whilst driving towards the police station, Penny’s stepmother hails down the car. Insisting he must speak with her Bob gets out of the car, leaving the hand brake off and allowing the crippled Penny to plunge over the cliff to her death. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:22Z Entry