# Dr. Cyclops (1940)

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**Runtime**: 76 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Ernest B. Schoedsack
**Written by**: Tom Kilpatrick, Malcolm Stuart Boylan
**Starring**: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian, Frank Yaconelli

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Dawn in the Peruvian jungle. A cracked beaker fizzes on a rusted lab table.  
The explorers wake smaller, crawling through towering ferns and spilled sugar cubes, shadows of rats looming above.  
Pre-Hays Code sci-fi horror, where the madman’s lab coat fits too loose and the ants don’t care who you were.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, unhinged

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