Human-Nonhuman Hybrids and Chimeras - Dramas

Chimera (USA: Monkey Boy)
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Country of origin and year: USA, 1991
Starring: John Lynch, Emer Gillespie and Sarah Winman
Chimera is a film about a creature who is a half man, half ape the product of a secret government project. Journalist John Lynch gets wind of the experiment when his girlfriend dies in a fertility clinic explosion. At the center of the plot is a completely mad scientist, whom the government continues to protect until it's almost too late.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101577/

The Island of Dr. Moreau
Director: Don Taylor
Country of origin and year: USA, 1977
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York and Nigel Davenport
Braddock is a decent young Englishman sailing in a remote area of the Pacific when he is unaccountably saved from being thrown overboard by the mysterious Dr. Montgomery, who is accompanying a cargo of animals destined for a tropical island. At first an "honored guest" on that island, he finds his contacts with the natives increasingly disturbing: they are not like any men he has ever seen. Eventually it becomes clear that these "men" are experimental reconstructions from wild animals made by a particularly sinister scientist, Dr. Moreau. Braddock feels that he is in danger from the animals/men and from Dr. Moreau himself and does not know where to turn.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076210/

First Born
Director: Philip Seville
Country of origin and year: UK, 1988
Starring: Charles Dance, Peter Elliott and Philip Madoc
Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, determined to breed primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange and unexpected turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He does his best to hide the results of the experiment, a child called Gor.  In an attempt to perpetuate the cover-up, Edward adopts the child, and helps Gor to speak and try to blend into society. But, he soon realizes that Gor can’t help being who he is.
Internet Movie Database webpage:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096584/

Quatermass and the Pit
Director: Rudolph Cartier
Country of origin and year: UK, 1958
Starring: André Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell
When a skull is found during a building project at Knightsbridge, London, the work comes to a halt in order to launch a full-scale archaeological dig at the site. The excavators dig deeper, finding not only more skulls, but also a cylindrical capsule made of something like ceramic. The Ministry of Defense believes it to be an un-detonated bomb, but when they manage to dig inside the shell, dead insect-like creatures are discovered. The MOD hold to their story, but Professor Quatermass's theory that the insects are Martians who visited Earth over five million years ago is proved to be correct with serious consequences.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051305/

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Director: William Beaudine
Country of origin and year: USA, 1952
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo
Mitchell and Petrillo parachute into the jungle of a Pacific island, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's daughter, and a mad scientist. The mad scientist Dr. Zabor is trying to develop a human-ape hybrid.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044406/

Outer Limits "Descent" (Season 5, Episode 14)
Director: Steve Ankor
Country of origin and year: USA, 1999
Starring: Leland Orser, Jenny Cooper, Greg Thirloway
The 1999 show featured Leland Orser as a shy, nerdy scientist who attempts to become stronger and more confident by injecting himself with DNA extracted from primitive primates. To his surprise, the experiment begins slowly transforming him into a human-ape hybrid.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044406/

The Twilight People
Director: Eddie Romaro
Country of origin and year: USA, 1973
Starring: John Ashley, Pat Woodell and Jan Merlin
A scientist kidnaps a man and transports him to an island, intent on turning him into a super-being. The kidnapped man does not want to be transformed, so he tries to escape with the help of the scientist's daughter and a band of half-human, half-animal creatures.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069426/

Skullduggery
Director: Gordon Douglas
Country of origin and year: USA, 1970
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark and Roger C. Carmel
On an expedition in Papua New-Guinea a tribe of apelike creatures is found. They are called the Tropis, and before long they are being used as slaves by humans. When one of the Tropis is allegedly murdered, the ensuing murder trial centers around the question: are the Tropis a form of humans or a form of animals?
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066384/

Wolfman
Director: Worth Keeter
Country of origin and year: USA, 1979
Starring: Earl Owensby, Kristina Reynolds and Sid Rancer
After the death of his father, a man discovers that both his father and grandfather have been cursed with a life of being a werewolf.  Not only this, but the man realizes that he too is a werewolf. The film highlights the issues surrounding human enhancement and how that could trigger events for psychiatric disorders.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141996/

Splice
Director: Vicenzo Natali
Country of origin and year: Canada, 2009
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley and Delphine Chanéac
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast have created incredible hybrid animals by splicing DNA together.  Now they want to create a human-animal hybrid. Defying the pharmaceutical company that funds their research, Clive and Elsa secretly conduct their own experiment, ignoring their society's ethical and legal boundaries. The result is a frightening creature, Dren, who develops into a deadly, winged humanoid monster.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/

The Pig Child (Short)
Director: Lucy Campbell
Country of origin and year: UK, 2013
Starring: Frederick Schmit, Catherine Steadman
A scientist working in embryology, driven by ambition and arrogance, illegally creates a part-pig part-human embryo. Defying advice from her only confidante, she recklessly decides to take the experiment one step further, and surrogate her creation - not expecting the pregnancy to be viable.. but it is. Shocked and afraid, she isolates herself, in turmoil about what she should do, as the pregnancy relentlessly progresses and she must face her ultimate responsibility alone.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3884020/