Top 11 Cinematic Experiments Gone Wrong
Steve Barton
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The Stand (1994)
Everyone remembers Stephen King’s epic tale, The Stand. The huge book, which was turned into a memorable mini-series, revolved around a post-apocalyptic Earth left nearly lifeless by a disease nicknamed Captain Tripps that proved to be fatal to 99.4% of people who came in contact with it. However, it’s easy for the casual viewer to forget the fact that Captain Tripps was originally called Project Blue and it was created on a U.S. military base in an experimental laboratory. And it was just one lone soldier, Charles Campion, who escaped the base with his family as the site went into emergency lock down, that spread the superflu, wiping out the majority of Earth’s population and bringing the story of The Stand to life. Whether the entire escapade was orchestrated by Randall Flagg or if he was just happy to take advantage of the situation is up each individual reader, but the result is the same…the downfall of humanity. And it all started with one dangerous experiment gone wrong.
The Fly (1958, 1986)
Whether you prefer the original version, or the modernized one starring Jeff Goldblum, the message from The Fly is very simple: Do not try to beam yourself from one location to another. However, if you simply must attempt to beam yourself from one location to another be sure, above all else, that there is nothing, and we mean absolutely nothing, in your transportation pod with you. Because if something is in there with you, you’re going to genetically fuse together, and you know only bad, bad things can happen after that. Sure, being the Brundlefly seemed cool at first, but it’s not long before you go from a Spiderman-like stud to a drippy gross mess of a beast…or in the case of the original film, a freaky-looking, human-headed bug that ends up being a spider’s lunch.
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