On a remote island in the South Pacific, Dr. Moreau has used the key of science to unlock the gates of hell. Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman Forever, The Ghost and the Darkness), David Thewlis (the Harry Potter films), Fairuza Balk (The Craft) and Academy Award -winner* Marlon Brando star in this fantastic sci-fi thriller based on the best-selling novel by H.G. Wells. Stan Winston's Creature Workshop (Jurassic Park) creates the frighteningly real special effects. Dr. Moreau is a brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits Moreau's island laboratory, he uncovers fantastic but brutal experiments turning animal life forms into humanlike beasts. As Moreau and his assistant race toward their barbaric goal of creating the perfect life-form, the beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all mankind! - Folks flee mad maker of half-human beasts.