George Langelaan

Películas

The fly
Author
In the 60s, in the heart of a village, Robert lives with his mother Odette. About fifty, balding, paunchy, Robert spends most of his time locked in the garage where he tries to develop a teleport machine. Robert will try to teleport himself, but a fly is stuck in the machine, and the scientific apprentice will gradually turn into a giant insect. Robert will little by little dehumanize to become a beast able to climb the wall, pushed by an insatiable search for food.
La mosca
Story
Seth Brundle, un excéntrico y solitario científico que crea uno de los inventos más revolucionarios de la historia: la cabina de teletransportación. En un intento por ponerla a prueba a la vez que ignora todo atisbo de prudencia, decide usarse a sí mismo como cobaya en la primera teletransportación aplicada a un humano, con la mala suerte de que una mosca se introduce junto con él en el artefacto. A partir de allí comenzará para Brundle una gradual pero definitiva transformación, una inquietante metamorfosis que le consumirá poco a poco, poniéndole en peligro a él y a los que le rodean.
The Collector of Brains
Novel
A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition?
Hyperion
Author
Thea, a researcher from an institute for nuclear studies, leaves for a vacation but ends up on an adventure at the boundary between fantasy and reality. On the TV screen the image of a man appears who disappeared 20 years ago after a nuclear explosion. She falls in love with this picture and convinces a colleague and close friend that they can bring back the man who disappeared through a strange reverse process. Her only way to communicate with this picture however is via the TV screen, and her love can only be communicated through dreaming.
La mosca
Story
El industrial François Delambre es llamado a altas horas de la noche por su cuñada, Helene Delambre, quien le dice que acaba de matar a su marido, André. Reacia al principio, finalmente le explica a la policía que André inventó un aparato de transporte de materia y, mientras experimentaba con él mismo, una mosca entró en la cámara durante la transferencia de materia.