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Army of Frankensteins
Army of Frankensteins (2013)

Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Comedy horror films, Cyberpunk films

After Alan Jones is savagely beaten by a street gang, he ends up at the lab of mad scientist Dr. Tanner Finski and his assistant Igor, a child genius. There, Jones discovers that he is the key to an experiment that involves Frankenstein's monster. When the experiment goes wrong, Finski sends Jones and Igor back in time to the American Civil War, where an interdimensional portal has allowed an army of monsters to converge.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man (1954)
, 1h10
Directed by Motoyoshi Oda
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Yoshio Tsuchiya, Minoru Takada, Kamatari Fujiwara, Haruo Nakajima

Une voiture heurte un objet invisible; le sang se répand à partir d'une source invisible qui devient visible lorsque l'homme qui saigne, meurt. Il porte avec lui une note de suicide dédiée à son seul ami, qui est aussi un homme invisible. Un jeune reporter passionné traque Takemitsu Nanjo, un vétéran de la guerre qui gagne visiblement sa vie en se peignant le visage comme celui d'un clown et en portant des pancartes publicitaires. Son voisin préféré est une petite fille aveugle dont la mère se heurte à des gangsters locaux. Les gangsters terrorisent la ville en tant que "gang invisible", s'enveloppant dans des écharpes et des trench-coats afin d'être visibles pour leurs victimes, même s'ils sont censés être invisibles en dessous. Une fois qu'ils découvrent Nanjo, qui défend ses seuls amis, ils le battent et le laissent pour mort.
The 27th Day
The 27th Day (1957)
, 1h15
Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Gene Barry, Valerie French, Jiří Voskovec, Arnold Moss, Stefan Schnabel, Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius Graf von Ledebur-Wicheln

Five people, Englishwoman Evelyn Wingate, American reporter Jonathan Clark, Chinese peasant Su Tan, German physicist Klaus Bechner, and Soviet soldier Ivan Godofsky, are randomly transported to an alien spacecraft in Earth orbit. There, they are met by a humanoid referring to himself only as "The Alien" (Arnold Moss), who explains that he is the representative of a world orbiting a sun about to go Nova. Needing a new world to inhabit within the next 35 days, yet prohibited by their moral code from killing intelligent life, The Alien provides each of the five with sets of three capsules in a clear, round, hand-held case. Each capsule is capable of destroying all human life within a 3,000-mile diameter, with the expectation that humanity will use all the capsules, obliterating itself, leaving the Earth free for alien colonization. The capsules' clear containers can only be opened by the thought waves of the person to whom they were given. Once out in the open, the capsules inside can then be used by anyone, but only during the next 27 days, after which they become inert.
Castle of the Monsters
Castle of the Monsters (1958)
, 1h30
Directed by Julián Soler
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Wolves in film, Frankenstein films, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Cyberpunk films
Actors Evangelina Elizondo, Alejandro Reyna

Mexican funnyman, El Clavillazo (Antonio Espino), is in love with a seamstress named Beatriz (Evangelina Elizondo), and also hangs out with a variety of odd characters, including a newsboy and a mental patient. Meanwhile, at the nearby castle, a mad scientist named “Dr Sputnik” and his scarred, hunchbacked assistant are busy making monsters. The doctor poses as a kindly blind man in town and uses hypnosis to lure Beatriz to his castle, brainwashing her into believing that she is his own love named “Galatea”. El Clavillazo, with an assist from his friends, blunders his way into the castle, where he spends most of his time being chased around by various monsters. There is the butler, who looks like the Frankenstein Monster. The rest of the monsters include a werewolf, a mummy, a vampire (clearly modeled after Count Dracula) and a gill-man (clearly patterned after "Creature from the Black Lagoon"). There is also another, unidentified monster being kept in a cell (why it is not allowed to run free with the rest is not known), which is referred to as a “gorilla” in some reviews, although it appears to be more of a humanoid ape-like creature, perhaps based on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In the end, El Clavillazo manages to defeat the monsters, mostly by luck, and rescue the girl. A chemical in Sputnik’s lab devolves the gill-man into a big fish, the werewolf is choked out by the monster in the cell (perhaps that is why he was kept behind bars), Frankenstein accidentally electrocutes himself by grabbing a power cable in the lab and turns into cogs and clock-parts, the mummy falls into a pit of alligators and is devoured, and the vampire vanishes when the sun rises. Dr Sputnik has the usual falling out that all mad scientists seem to eventually have with their deformed assistants (usually due to the scientist mistreating his assistant, or the assistant developing a crush on a girl the scientist has designs on, or sometimes a combination of both), resulting in his being shot after he stabs the scarred hunchback. Clavillazo and Beatriz are trapped in a room and about to be crushed by the walls moving together when they are rescued in the nick of time by the rest of the gang, and they all live happily ever after.
Mysterious Island
Mysterious Island (2010)

Directed by Mark Sheppard
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films
Actors Gina Holden, Mark Sheppard, William Morgan Sheppard, Pruitt Taylor Vince, John Evermore, Lochlyn Munro

During the American Civil War, five northern POWs escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they awaken to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they are not alone.
Skullduggery
Skullduggery (1970)
, 1h45
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Edward Fox, Paul Hubschmid, Chips Rafferty

On an expedition in Papua New-Guinea, Tropis, a tribe of apelike creatures are being used quickly as slaves by humans. As one of the Tropis is allegedly murdered, The following murder trial centers round the question: are the Tropis a form of humans or a form of animals. The question is a form of the Sorites paradox.
Frankenstein 1970
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
, 1h23
Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Boris Karloff, Don "Red" Barry, Mike Lane

Boris Karloff plays the role of Baron Victor von Frankenstein, who suffered torture and disfigurement at the hands of the Nazis as punishment for not cooperating with them during World War II. Horribly disfigured, he nevertheless continues his work as a scientist. Needing funds to support his experiments, the Baron allows a television crew to shoot a made-for-television horror film about his monster-making family at his castle in Germany.
Frankenstein's Daughter
Frankenstein's Daughter (1958)

Directed by Richard E. Cunha
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors John Ashley, Harold Lloyd Jr., John Zaremba, Harry Wilson, George Barrows

The grandson of Victor Frankenstein, Oliver (Donald Murphy), is hiding away as a laboratory assistant for the gentle Prof. Morton (Felix Locher). While Dr. Morton pursues a pet project, Dr. Frankenstein secretly works his own experiments on his benefactor's niece, Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight). Although these experiments temporarily disfigure Trudy's face and cause her to wander aimlessly at night, they are only a build-up to Oliver's greater goal of recreating life. With the aid of one of his father's former assistants, Oliver constructs a female monster from the body parts of various murdered people and begins to deal a horrible fate upon any who dare stand in the way of his desires.
Buddha's Little Finger
Buddha's Little Finger (2015)
, 1h24
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Toby Kebbell, André Hennicke, Karine Vanasse, Stipe Erceg

Unemployed Russian poet Pyotr Voyd arrested by KGB during the 1991 Soviet August Coup, by tortures he loses consciousness and appears in 1919 post-revolutionary Russia, where he fights on the same side with the legendary Red cavalry commander Chapaev and his machine-gunner Anka. The strange memory lapses all the time throw him to the bandits' Moscow of nineties, then to the Russian Civil War back and forth, again and again. Pyotr learns how long may raging two winds of changes simultaneously in the head of one and the same person.
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
, 1h51
Directed by Colm McCarthy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Dystopian films
Actors Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine, Anamaria Marinca

Dans un futur dystopique, l'humanité a été ravagée par une mystérieuse maladie fongique, variante de l’Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Les personnes qui en sont affectées perdent tout contrôle et se transforment en zombies assoiffés de chair humaine appelés « voraces ».
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
, 1h33
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Giant monster films, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films, Mise en scène d'une plante
Actors Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey, Mervyn Johns, Carole Ann Ford

Triffids are tall plants capable of aggressive and seemingly intelligent behaviour. They are able to move about by "walking" on their roots, appear to communicate with each other, and possess a deadly whip-like poisonous sting that enables them to kill their victims and feed on their rotting carcasses. Their appearance is vaguely similar to gigantic asparagus shoots topped with a flower-like 'head' that somewhat resemble a Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid and houses their deadly stinger.
Panic in Year Zero!
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
, 1h33
Directed by Ray Milland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Frankie Avalon, Joan Freeman, Willis Bouchey, Richard Bakalyan

Soon after Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland), his wife Ann (Jean Hagen), their son Rick (Frankie Avalon), and daughter Karen (Mary Mitchell) leave suburban Los Angeles on a camping trip, the Baldwins note unusually bright light flashes coming from a great distance. Sporadic news reports on CONELRAD broadcasts hint at the start of a thermonuclear war, which is confirmed as the Baldwins see a large mushroom cloud over what was Los Angeles.