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61) Deadpool
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Author
Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate.
63) El pasaje
Author
Series
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
1st edición.
Physical Desc
1,084 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En unas instalaciones ultrasecretas del gobierno norteamericano un fallo de seguridad permite que escapen unos monstruosos seres que habían sido objeto de un experimento militar escalofriante. No muy lejos de allí, Amy, una niña huérfana de apenas seis años de edad, inicia un viaje lleno de peligros.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
xiii, 384 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The forty year "Tuskegee" Syphilis Study has become the American metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. The subject of histories, films, rumors, and political slogans, it received an official federal apology from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony. The author offers an analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A scientist experimenting with eyesight develops a formula to see through solid objects. But as he continues testing the drug on himself, he soon finds himself looking into the very face of reality.
67) Show me a sign
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mary Lambert has always felt safe and protected on her beloved island of Martha's Vineyard. Her great-great-grandfather was an early English settler and the first deaf islander. Now, in 1805, over a hundred years later, many people there -- including Mary -- are deaf, and nearly everyone can communicate in sign language. Mary has never felt isolated. She is proud of her lineage. But recent events have delivered winds of change. Mary's brother died,...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Quennell was brought in to investigate the deaths. He consults entomology professor Mallinger, but the doctor seems to be hiding a dark secret about his fetching young daughter, Clare. The deeper Quennell digs into their story, the bloodier the violence until he discovers a terrifying truth about Mallinger₂s experiments that is only revealed in the gruesome final reel. Hearkening back to the classics of Universal Pictures, The...
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Director approved special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"It has been eight months since the bloody massacre at Miskatonic Medical School. Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life - starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased, Meg Halsey. Surely nothing could go wrong?"--Container.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (189 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Suspicions arise when three corpses are found sucked dry of blood. The search begins for a crazed vampire killer and ultimately leads Scotland Yard to the secret operating theater of Doctor Browning. There, he has perfected a way of taking limbs and organs from various bodies and matching them to form his idea of a super-human.
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[45th anniversary edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Part campy musical, part horror film, the movie details the travails of a squeaky-clean couple stranded at a creepy castle where the inhabitants sing and dance through bacchanalian romp of murder, bisexuality, and cannibalism. The madcap, musical mayhem begins when rain-soaked Brad and Janet take refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation!
74) Downsizing
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[Blu-ray version + DVD + Digital copy].
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A couple with financial problems decides to undergo the procedure of shrinking their bodies to a height of five inches to be able to live an easy and care-free life but the wife changes her mind after her husband has already been downsized and now he has to build his new life alone.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mad scientist cons a lab assistant into doing his dirty work. Dr. Frankenstien pushes for the kidnapping of a mentally ill doctor so that his brain may be used in the Dr. Frankenstein experiments.
Publisher
Kino Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Deluxe collector's edition ; Full frame [version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : silent, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (204 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The man from Planet X: As a mysterious planet hurls itself toward Earth, an enigmatic extraterrestrial scout arrives on a remote Scottish island with unknown intentions.
Beyond the time barrier: In 1960, a military test pilot is caught in a time warp that propels him to year 2024 where he finds a plague has sterilized the world's population.
The amazing transparent man: A crazed scientist invents an invisibility formula. He plans to use the formula...
Author
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiv, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The accomplishments of pioneering American doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental cesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. "Medical Bondage" breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued...
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