H.G. Wells' horror story about a scientist who surgically transforms animals into human-like creatures remains deeply unsettling in an age of genetic engineering and transhumanism. Stranded on Moreau's island, narrator Edward Prendick watches the doctor's creations struggle between their animal nature and their imposed humanity, a struggle that raises questions about what makes us human that Wells leaves disturbingly unanswered. This is body horror as philosophical inquiry. This science fiction horror classic explores the ethics of scientific experimentation, evolution, and the boundaries of humanity.
 
 
 
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