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101) The premature burial
Series
Roger Corman collection volume 4
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The premature burial: A medical student and painter has an obsessive fear of being buried alive that compels him to build himself a tomb with a view, equipped with everything he can think of to escape death. But when his long-suffering wife convinces him to destroy the tomb, he finds himself in the gravest danger.
X, the man with the X-ray eyes: Dr. James Xavier is a brilliant but unorthodox researcher whose work with human sight has yielded an experimental...
102) Say Anarcha: a young woman, a devious surgeon, and the harrowing birth of modern women's health
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journalist Hallman corrects a huge omission in women’s health history in this innovative and riveting study of Anarcha, an enslaved woman who in the mid-1800s endured as many as 30 unanesthetized experimental surgeries performed by the “father of modern gynecology,” J. Marion Sims. Casting a critical eye on Sims’s statements about Anarcha, including his claim that he “cured” her of obstetric fistula, “a horrific condition that is the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The compelling story of the hunt for Aribert Heim, whose decades-long flight from justice turned a mid-level SS officer and concentration camp doctor into the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world. Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a horrifying mark on the memories of survivors. According to their testimony, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts....
Publisher
Retromedia Entertainment Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (131 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The ape man: A scientific experiment goes awry, leaving a mentally unbalanced researcher transformed into an apelike creature.
Doomed to die: A newswoman asks sleuth Mr. Wong to look into the murder of a shipping tycoon.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (59 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Language
Italiano
Description
Young art student Hans von Arnam arrives by barge at an old mill to write a monograph about its celebrated sculptures of women in the throes of death and torture, maintained and curated by the mill's owner, the hermetic Professor Wahl. But when Hans encounters the professor's beautiful and mysterious daughter Elfi, his own fate becomes inexorably bound up with hers, and with the shocking secret that lies at the heart of the so-called Mill of the Stone...
109) Anarcha speaks
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiii, 95 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Anarcha Speaks is the reimagined story of an enslaved woman who was subject to medical experimentation at the hands of Dr. Marion Sims, a man who is credited as the father of modern gynecology"--
110) Akira
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Limited edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray].
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 14 x 18 cm)
Language
English
Description
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
113) Critical condition
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (approximately 564 minutes) : black & white, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The black room: Twin brothers are born to a ruling family. One twin inherits a castle and becomes infamous for his sadistic behavior and murders the other twin, assuming his identity.
The man they could not hang: A doctor working on experiments to restore life to the dead is hanged for murder. Brought back to life by his assistant, he sets out to murder members of the jury that convicted him.
Before I hang: Sentenced to die for a mercy killing,...
115) Seconds
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm).
Language
English
Description
An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity-one that comes with its own price.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (393 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Cyclops: A brilliant but deranged physicist shrinks his enemies to one-fifth of their normal size when they begin to challenge his unconventional experiments.
Cult of the cobra: Vengeance is sworn against six American GI's after they witness a clandestine ceremony worshiping beautiful women who can change into serpents.
The land unknown: When a navy expedition crash-lands in a crater thousands of miles below sea level, they encounter a hot,...
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
4 Blu-rays (358 min.) : sound, black and white and color + 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
The monster of the opera: A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
The seventh grave: A group of strangers are summoned to the ancestral castle of Sir Reginald in rural Scotland for the reading of a deceased's...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
10 Blu-rays (approximately 29 hr., 18 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The revenge of Frankenstein: Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the effectiveness of the process and the secret of his identity soon begin to unravel.
The curse of the mummy's tomb: British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive the mummy that will then kill all...
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