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1) Serenity
Language
English
Formats
Description
River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (120 min.) : digital, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has wanted to create a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve years, he cultivates a skin that is a real shield against every assault. Now, besides the years of study and experimentation, the unscrupulous doctor needs to find an accomplice, and a human guinea pig. Marrilia, the woman who looked after him from birth, is his most faithful accomplice....
3) Deadpool
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
4) Lucy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Altered by a dangerous new drug allowing her to use 100% of her brain capacity, Lucy transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic, allowing her to turn the tables on her captors who intended to use her for their own purposes.
5) High life
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the third film in the saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth above. But will the final battle for the future of the human race be fought among the living or have...
7) PUSH
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick is a 'mover' - someone who can move things with his mind. He meets up with Cassie who is a 'watcher' - someone who can predict the future. She is trying to rescue her mother from the government. As they try to piece things together, Kira enters their lives. Kira is a 'pusher' - someone who can influence the thoughts of others. She has had a relationship with Nick and is the only person to survive a powerful 'enhancement' drug that was administered...
Series
Mystery science theater 3000 volume show 513
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Bill Cortner is a brilliant young surgeon who experiments illegally with the bodies and minds of fellow humans. When his fiancée is decapitated in a freak accident, he tries to transplant her still living head and brain to another body.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Herbert West has been in prison for the past 14 years. He has had no choice but to continue his experiments on the only specimens he can find - rats. When a young new doctor comes to work as the prison's medical doctor, he requests Dr. West's assistance. Dr. West discovers that this new doctor has something that Dr. West had left behind 14 years earlier.
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (5 double-sided) (approximately 1879 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a devastating plague, "Survivors" explores how humanity would cope in a world stripped of modern technology and comforts.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 73 min.) : black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Missing for ten years, Dr. Leon Kravaal (Boris Karloff) has been found! Frozen solid in a block of ice, Kravaal was conducting forbidden experiments in human cryogenics when he became trapped within his own freezer. Thawed out by Tim Morgan (Roger Pryor) and Judy Blair (Jo Ann Sayers), Kravaal vows to continue his research, using his enemies as guinea pigs. But with the death of his last human "volunteer," Kravaal decides it's time for Tim and Judy...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (79 min.) : silent, color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jekyll, an idealistic London doctor, has a weakness for experiments which take him to the boundaries of human consciousness and experience. When Sir George Carew, father of the girl Jekyll loves, accuses him of being afraid of temptation, he finds a drug which allows him to separate the evil side of his personality from the good; as Edward Hyde, he embarks upon a career of crime.
13) Downsizing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When scientists find a way to shrink humans to five inches tall, Paul Safrane and his wife Audrey decide to ditch their stressed out lives in order to get small and live large in a luxurious downsized community. Filled with life-changing adventures and endless possibilities, Leisureland offers more than riches, as Paul discovers a whole new world and realizes that we are meant for something bigger.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.
16) Deadpool
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
17) The institute
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter--stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death--voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. There, she is subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing, and mind control. Now she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood, and exact her revenge.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) (707 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
X-Men: A war is brewing between those with special powers ("mutants") and the rest of humanity -- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants- the "X-Men."
X-Men, first class: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ciel Phantomhive and his demonic butler, Sebastian, are back, but their next case has them treading some rough waters! Aboard the luxury liner Campania, the two investigate an illegal human experiment that involves resurrecting the dead. But the closer they get to the truth, the closer they are to their own deaths! Will this be their final case, or will one hell of a butler keep them afloat?
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