819 The Island of Dr Moreau (1996)

 This is one of those radioactively bad films that blights the  careers of most of those involved with them. This third adaptation of HG Wells'  novel warning on messing about with human genetics, moves the story to a contemporary setting with a horribly miscast David Thewlis as a shipwreck survivor who is brought to an island where mad Dr Moreau ( Marlon Brando in his last substantial screen role) and equally unhinged sidekick Montgomery (Val Kilmer ) hold court amid a population of human/animal hybrids . 

 The only  thing that can be praised is  the make-up. The endlessly rewritten script is incoherent and illogical. The obsese Brando, far more  grotesque than any of his creations, gives  a  lazy  self-indulgent performance and Kilmer, beset by  offscreen problems, seems to begrudge every line he's been given. The film's descent into mindless violence in the last 20 minutes is  the  crowning touch.

Fairuza Balk ( as Aissa )

Sex : No

Death : Hung by one of her brothers

Fairuza  gives one of the film's better performances but  it's still hard to care what happens to her.