In the mid-1990s, a promising director Richard Stanley led the project of his dreams—the screen adaptation of H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau. A few days into filming, Stanley was fired, and the film, rewritten from scratch by someone else, was not well received by critics or audiences. Actors, crew members, producers, and the would-be director recall the difficult and infamous history of the film's making, which, it seems, was hated by all involved.