The Ebola virus is terrific fodder for horror. C’mon, you bleed internally and externally and your liver is rendered barely functional. With the weekend damage we’ve done to that organ, it’s something our immune systems shouldn’t’ be tasked to battle. So it’s not surprising that this viral hemorrhagic fever spawned, well, at least a couple of movies.Continue reading “Ebola Zombies”
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The Fly (1986)
Eat shit. Millions of flies can’t be wrong. Bathroom graffiti Genomic manipulation came to prominence in the 1970s. Salk Institute researcher Rudolf Jaenisch and research partner Beatrice Mintz injected pre-embryonic mouse cellular tissue with a monkey virus. The monkey DNA integrated into the host’s genome. David Cronenberg’s The Fly, is “transgenic,” an organism that containsContinue reading “The Fly (1986)”
