# The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)

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**Runtime**: 99 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Horror, Adventure
**Directed by**: Don Taylor
**Written by**: Al Ramrus, John Herman Shaner
**Starring**: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart, Nick Cravat

> *A tropical paradise, untouched by man... where a bizarre civilization exists.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Salt-rotten hammock unties at dawn on black sand.

A man claws up from the tide, half-alive, toward iron gates holding back something that breathes too many lungs at once.

The scientist’s parlor shelves are lined with teeth that still remember their names.

**Mood tags**: body-horror, dread, unhinged

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