H. G Wells
Author
Series
H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man volume 9
Language
English
Description
The Invisible man is investigating an international drug ring when his identity is stolen by a beautiful young woman and used to smuggle drugs.
382) The invisible man
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A scientist who makes himself invisible finds he can't reverse the process, and is driven into madness and murder.
383) Things to Come
Author
Language
English
Description
From H.G. Wells' shocking book comes one of the most lavish science fiction epics ever to hit the screen! It is the year 1940 and civilization has been torn apart by a global war–transformed from a place of order and progress into a nightmarish landscape of fear and disease. One small warring tribe struggles for its existence, when out of the sky comes a fantastic craft bearing a mysterious stranger who offers them a new path, one free of war and...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1037
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious, meteorlike object has landed in a small California town. All clocks have stopped. A fleet of glowing green UFOs hovers menacingly over the entire globe. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun, and it seems that nothing-- neither military might nor the scientific know-how of nuclear physicist Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry)-- can stop it.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On the evening of October 30, 1938, Orson Welles's radio play "The War of the Worlds", performed live on the air by the Mercury Theatre troupe, accidentally provokes mass panic when people who missed the opening announcement that a play was being broadcast believed an alien attack was actually occurring.
388) Dead of night
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
An architect visits a country house only to get trapped in a recurring nightmare involving tales of the occult told by fellow guests at the manor. A portmanteau work from four of Ealing Studio's best directors, DEAD OF NIGHT preyed masterfully on the post-war fears and paranoia of the 1940's. Winner of the Most Interesting Screenplay Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival.** *"Nearly 60 years on, Ealing's compendium of spooky tales remains...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Following a shipwreck, crewman Andrew Braddock (York) washes up on a mysterious island ruled by the seemingly benevolent Dr. Moreau (Lancaster). Braddock will learn that this "man of science" has been testing a serum on the island animals which is able to transform them into near-human beings. As the deranged doctor slips ever closer to insanity, Braddock's plans to escape the island along with Maria (Carrera), another of the doctor's guests, is...
392) The Time Machine
Author
Language
English
Description
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
396) Dead of night
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"This film features five stories of supernatural terror from four directors. A group of strangers are inexplicable gathered in an isolated country estate. Dreams and nightmares dominate the conversation, and each guest shares a frightening event from his or her past. Two of the stories stand out: a mirror with a horrifying story that shows you a different room when you look into it and a ventriloquist who goes mad when his dummy appears to come to...
397) Things to come
Series
Criterion collection volume 660
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Takes the viewer on a hundred-year time trip to 2036 A.D. when a man and a woman are rocketed to the moon.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Door in the wall: A man must choose between the rationality of science and the magic of imagination.
All cats are gray: A down-on-his-luck spaceman and a mysterious woman and her cat take off to explore and bring back a derelict ship said to hold great treasure.
A martian odyssey: A four-man crew lands on Mars and makes a startling discovery.
Victory: A victorious captain returns to h his home planet after an alien war and finds that victory has...
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