Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1986 comic book, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley, 1986
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Jay Oliva, 2013

After the death of his protégé Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne retired his Batman persona. Ten years later, in mid-1986, Gotham City is overrun with crime and terrorized by a gang known as the Mutants. The 55-year-old Wayne maintains a friendship with 70-year-old retiring Police Commissioner James Gordon, while the Joker has been catatonic in Arkham Asylum since Wayne’s retirement.


Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 1986 comic book, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley, 1986
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Jay Oliva, 2012

After the death of his protégé Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne retired his Batman persona. Ten years later, in mid-1986, Gotham City is overrun with crime and terrorized by a gang known as the Mutants. The 55-year-old Wayne maintains a friendship with 70-year-old retiring Police Commissioner James Gordon, while the Joker has been catatonic in Arkham Asylum since Wayne’s retirement.


Star Trek Into Darkness. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Star Trek Into Darkness
Alan Dean Foster, 2013
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J.J. Abrams, 2013

In 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is removed from command of the starship USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive after exposing the ship to the primitive inhabitants of the planet Nibiru in order to save them, and Spock, from a cataclysmic volcanic eruption. During an emergency meeting on the situation, Harrison uses a ship to ambush and kill Pike and other senior officers, before transporting to Kronos, homeworld of the hostile Klingons.


RoboCop. Poster of the 1987 movie and cover of the book novelization
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RoboCop
Ed Naha, 1987
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Paul Verhoeven, 1987

In a dystopian future, Detroit is on the verge of collapse due to financial mismanagement and a high crime rate. Investigating their hideout, an abandoned steel mill, Murphy kills one of the gang members, but is ambushed by the leader, Clarence Boddicker.


Naked Lunch. Poster of the 1991 movie and cover of the 1959 book
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs, 1959
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David Cronenberg, 1991

William Lee is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan is stealing his supply of insecticide to use as a recreational drug. Lee comes to believe that he is a secret agent, and his boss, a giant talking beetle, assigns him the mission of killing Joan, who is allegedly an agent of an organization called Interzone Incorporated.


Ivans xtc.. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1886 book, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy, 1886
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Bernard Rose, 2000

The movie begins with the passing of its leading character, Ivan Beckman, an accomplished Tinseltown agent. The movie then retraces the final days of his high-paced and fast-living lifestyle, leading to his sudden death caused by a shocking cancer diagnosis.


Screamers. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1953 book, Second Variety
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Second Variety
Philip K. Dick, 1953
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Christian Duguay, 1995

In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a war between the mining company, known as the New Economic Bloc, and The Alliance, a group of former mining and science personnel. Screamers track targets by their heartbeats, so Alliance soldiers wear tabs which broadcast a signal canceling out the wearer’s heartbeat and rendering them invisible to the machines.


RoboCop 2. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Robocop 2
Ed Naha, 1990
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Irvin Kershner, 1990

In a near dystopian future, Detroit is on the verge of bankruptcy after failing to pay off its debts to conglomerate Omni Consumer Products. The OCP chairman intends to have the city default on its debt, then foreclose on all public property, effectively taking over its government and allowing for a radical urban redevelopment plan.


Gold Coast. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1980 book
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Gold Coast
Elmore Leonard, 1980
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Peter Weller, 1997

Karen’s married to Frank, a millionaire who has no morals and a hypocrite. it’s alright for him to fool around but not for her. So when she has an affair and brags to him about it, he vows to get back at her. When he dies after having one of his trysts, he leaves her millions of dollars but in trust, and also he has left instructions that if his wife gets involved with someone that they should be warned off.


Cat Chaser. Poster of the 1989 movie and cover of the 1982 book
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Cat Chaser
Elmore Leonard, 1982
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Abel Ferrara, 1989

George Moran is a former American paratrooper and veteran of the Dominican Republic intervention who now runs a small beachfront motel in Miami. While searching for a Dominican woman named Luci Palma who saved his life in 1965, he begins a relationship with Mary DeBoya, the wealthy, unhappy wife of a sadistic former Dominican general.


Prey. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1907 book, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
John Henry Patterson, 1907
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Darrell Roodt, 2007

While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard’s Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger.


The Poseidon Adventure. Poster of the 2005 movie and cover of the 1969 book
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The Poseidon Adventure
Paul Gallico, 1969
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John Putch, 2005

The SS Poseidon, a 135,000-ton state-of-the-art luxury cruise ship on a cruise from Cape Town to Sydney succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year’s eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.