![]() ![]() The movie’s original director, Richard Stanley, claimed to have once called upon the powers of a warlock in an attempt to get Brando cast. And Brando was at the center of its storm, funnily enough. Moreau, the shoot made even Apocalypse Now’s notoriously troubled production look like a picnic. New Line CinemaĪs reported by the 2014 documentary Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. To others, it seemed like evidence the Oscar winner had taken leave of his senses. To some, this was a fittingly eccentric portrayal that cleverly leaned into the film’s fever-dream quality. Then there’s Brando’s divisive performance as the titular megalomaniac, an individual prone to slathering his face in sunblock, wearing metal bucket hats, and playing piano with a two-foot Mini-me (inspiring Mike Myers in the process). ![]() When Thewlis’ castaway Douglas witnessed a horse-human hybrid delivering a mutant baby, such a moment likely scarred the Blockbuster generation for life. Special effects creator Stan Winston’s array of monsters - a by-product of Moreau’s determination to tinker with the evolutionary process - are some of the most impressively disturbing ever to appear in a PG-13 film. Wells’ mad-scientist novel, The Island of Dr. David Thewlis and a pickled mutant baby in The Island of Dr. ![]()
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