Dr. Moreau's House of Pain (2004 film)

Dr. Moreau's House of Pain is an independant 2004 film.

Plot
Eric Carson, a sports fighter who's recently fought against a tough old man, gets ride to a strip club from his friends, Judith and Mary Anne, a reporter, to search of his long lost brother, Roy, who's been on the run for debt. Accoording to the bartender, hsi Roy had been eyeing a stripper named Alliana whom Eric finds punching a man's head through and putting the body in her car. Alliana takes Roy's body and Eric tails her in the car with Judith and Mary Anne thinking she may have something to do with Roy's disappearence. Alliana leads them into a gated property in the forest. The gang considers leaving before Mary Anne recalls that the property was once an asylum owned by a Hong Kong man, until it was set on fire by a patient. Mary Anne is about to explain more before she's snatched and kidnapped by a manimal. Eric and Judith attempt to rescue her before being captured themselves by manimals, Gallagher, a pig-man and Peewee, a hyena-man.

Meanwhie, Dr. Moreau is working on the body from Alliana and conlcludes that it's infected with yellow fever so he can't use it to give transplants to Peewee. Peewee turns against the doctor in anger so Dr. Moreau reluctantly permits Peewee to take out his bloodlust on Mary Anne instead, who is subsequently killed. Alliana has sex with Eric which is later revealed to him by Dr. Moreau as all part of his and the manimal's plans to interbreed with humans and create a studiable link between man and animals that could save the manimals from their beastly appearances.

Cast/ Characters

 * John Patrick Jordan as Eric Carson: An athlete looking for his lost brother, Roy.
 * Jessica Lancaster as Judith: An ex-girlfriend of Roy Carson and friend of Eric Carson.
 * Debra Mayer as Mary Anne: A reporter for the Hollywood Tattle who helps Eric look for his brother.
 * Lorielle New as Alliana: A nearly human manimal made from a leopard who works as a stripper to collect bodies for transplation for Dr. Moreau.
 * Peter Donald Badalamenti II as Gallagher: A pig-man who is insecure about his unattractiveness and spies on Alliana.
 * B.J. Smith as Peewee: A hynea-man who is strong but stupid.
 * Jacob Witkin as Dr. Moreau: A vivisectionist who was overthrown at his island facility by his manimals and brought to the current lab to continue his experiments working for the manimals.
 * Ling Aum as Pak: A man from Hong Kong who worked for Moreau and now the manimals alongside him. He is trying to restore the humanity of his daughter he lent to Moreau for experiments.
 * Laura Peterson as Gorgana: Pak's daughter who was lent to Moreau as a baby for experiments.

Themes

 * Fault of creator vs fault of creation: After Peewee kills Mary Anne, Gallagher attempts to reassure that it isn't the Dr. Moreau's fault, but he replies that since they're his creations, everything they do is his fault. This can be an argument for atheism/ maltheism or an argument for lack of responsibility under regular theism.
 * Lookism: The manimals despise their ugly existence and want to be made more human in appearance and/or to have fluidly integrated manimals among society to force people to accept whatever animal appearance is left in them.

Comparison to other versions

 * The Island of the Lost (1921 film): The Montgomery counterpart is chinese.
 * Vivisector: Beast Within: The Moreau counterpart is not afraid to experiment on human babies.