![]() ![]() ![]() 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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