The Darker Side of Terror

The Darker Side of Terror

What happens when you create the world's first perfect human ... and he turns out to be your wife's perfect lover?

NR 1979 · 96 min · ★ 7.0 · Science Fiction, Horror, TV Movie

A psychological thriller about a research biologist who, angered when an associate is given a position over him based on stolen research findings, agrees to assist his former professor in a cloning experiment in which a duplicate of himself is created -- and which then, with a mind and will of its own, falls in love with the biologist's wife.

Directed by Gus Trikonis · Written by John Herman Shaner

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