Not every experiment goes right. Not every theory is unbeaten like Darwin's and Mendel's.

So you have a perfectly normal Dr Jekyll assumes the form of a devilish Dr Hyde.

A dead man is bought to life in Frankenstein.

Man turns into beast on The Island of Dr Moreau.

There's a reversal of roles when a man becomes pregnant in Junior.

Kids can be shrunk and blown in jiffy in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Invisibility is no longer a figment of one's imagination in Hollow Man.

That's why this slide show. To explore the exciting, depressing, gory, tragic and revolutionary world of scientific inventions and goof-ups, as depicted by Hollywood!

Text: Sukanya Verma
Design: Dominic Xavier