Hysteria (1997)
Madness is a State of Mind
Gênero : Ficção científica, Terror, Thriller
Runtime : 1H 40M
Director : René Daalder
Sinopse
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
A woman floating on a raft in the middle of the Pacific. She was found by a rescue team and taken ashore. Once there, she tells a story of how she escaped from an island full of zombies. She was persuaded to lead a commando unit to the island to explore.
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of Rassimov; he married Tanja, and he's trying to restore her lost beauty with a series of skin transplants. However, to reach his goal, professor Nijinski needs beautiful young victims for his transplant experiments.
Afetados por uma substância radioativa, um grupo de tartarugas cresce anormalmente, ganha força e conhecimento. Vivendo nos esgotos de Manhattan, quatro jovens tartarugas, treinadas na arte de kung-fu, Leonardo, Rafael, Michelangelo e Donatello, junto com seu sensei, Mestre Splinter, tem que enfrentar o mal que habita cidade.
Um psiquiatra injeta LSD em quatro voluntários para estudar os efeitos do tóxico sob a influência da imagem de Zé do Caixão. O personagem aparece de maneira diferente nos delírios psicodélicos de cada um, misturando sexo, perversão e sadismo. (Extraído de AB-IF/MALDITO, p. 397) (Cinemateca Brasileira)
A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations.
In a deconstruction of classic Hollywood codes, using repetitive single frame images, the re-editing of teenager movies produces an intense Oedipal drama.
On a South African plantation, a maniac is on the loose, first killing the estate's animals, then starting on the human members.
A baboon escapes from a Florida campus lab and starts spreading something bad with a bite.
O jovem casal Kelly (Ashley Greene) e Ben (Sebastian Stan) passa por uma experiência paranormal na universidade em que estuda. Agora, eles são atormentados por um espírito maligno, alimentado pelo medo que sentem. Eles têm certeza de uma coisa: só morre quem de fato acredita na criatura. Entre medo e paranóia, eles têm ajuda de um especialista em atividades paranormais, chamado Patrick (Tom Felton).
When Lt. John Harkness is assigned as the new skipper of a submarine chaser equipped with an experimental steam engine, he hopes that the U.S.S. Teakettle's veterans will afford him enough help to accomplish the ship's goals. Unfortunately, he finds the crew and its officers share his novice status or only have experience in diesel engines.
Quando o mundo é invadido por uma antiga raça de aliens, a cidade de Los Angeles é fortificada como um reduto alheio. A única forma de luta é por dentro.
When plastic surgeon and mad scientist Don Brandon loses his pinup model wife Anitra in a tragic accident, he and his faithful humpbacked assistant Greg busy themselves experimenting with re-animation. Once ready, the good doctor begins luring young women back to the lab using hypnosis in order to gather select parts to create his wife anew.
Becky é uma caixa de lanchonete acusada de roubar dinheiro da bolsa de uma cliente. Embora a acusação seja feita num telefonema por um suposto policial, a gerente do fast food, Sandra, concorda em deter e revistar Becky. Essa “cooperação”, porém, transforma a situação num pesadelo. Baseado em eventos reais.
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
The military have captured and imprisoned a supernatural entity. And now it wants to play.
Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body.
Dr. Tsu is a brilliant surgeon with her own exotic island off the coast of Manila. Using her sexy, all-girl army of martial-arts experts, Tsu kidnaps some of the world's greatest athletes. She is able to transplant any body part, so she uses the athletes for spare parts to sell to the world's richest men. Mike Harber is a womanizing, wise-cracking insurance investigator for Lloyd's of London sent to Manila to investigate the disappearance of a jai-alai player, and becomes involved with Dr. Tsu's mad mission.
Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to create a telepathic monster.
