The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds: 1934. Suddenly, without warning, our homeland is attacked and invaded by an unknown enemy. The country, the whole Earth, is thrown into chaos as our attempts to defend ourselves fail miserably against these pitiless aggressors from another world, whose weapons of mass destruction far exceed our own technology. One man relives his personal struggle to stay alive while searching for his wife amidst the systematic extinction of mankind. When faced with death, his humanity and moral boundaries come into question�given the circumstances, should he survive, at any cost? The Time Machine: In the year 1911, a scientist gathers his friends to tell them an unbelievable tale�he has built a fantastic machine that has enabled him to travel thousands of years into the future from which he has just returned. At first, the future world appears to be one of peace and harmony peopled by a strange race of pale, docile humans who regard him as a humorous oddity. Eventually, he becomes bored with them, but, soon learns their reason for existence when he discovers another race of barbarous, depraved beings � cannibals �living beneath the Earth�s surface. However shocked he may be, he cannot escape�they�ve stolen and hidden his time machine. The Island of Dr Moreau: On an idyllic South Seas island, a shipwrecked survivor discovers Dr. Moreau, an eccentric geneticist whose weird experiments have produced a tribe of mutants�part-man, part-animal�who worship their maker or face the �house of pain.� Ultimately, the garden of paradise turns into Hell itself when Moreau�s nightmarish creations learn that he is as mortal as them and they rebel violently against their god. The Invisible Man: In this tale of psychological fearfulness, a mysterious stranger arrives one night out of a storm to a small town where he begins his reign of terror. It turns out that he�s a scientist who has invented a way to render himself invisible. The problem is that he�s also quite insane. Now he can go anywhere, menace, or kill, anyone who stands in his way. Humanity is not safe as long as the Invisible Man may be watching. But, who can stop him?
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