Worst Book to Movie Adaptations
12 Book-to-Movie Adaptations So Bad the Authors Deserve Letters of Apology
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The second H.G. Wells novel on the list, this one is about a shipwrecked man who winds up on an island ruled by a mad scientist and populated by the scientist's animal-human hybrid monsters. Marlon Brando played the title character in what is a bit of a stain on his otherwise-stellar acting career — he won a Razzie for it.
Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film "a maddening mess of empty gestures," and it actually has a lower audience score (20 percent) than the critic score (24 percent) on Rotten Tomatoes.