Tossup
Description acceptable. A film in this subgenre angered test audiences by ending on a shot of stars and a voiceover claiming, “to God, there is no zero.” A radioactive mist engulfs a boat in a film in this genre with a screenplay by Richard Matheson. Five people are subjected to atomic experiments in the jungles of Peru in a film in this genre titled Doctor Cyclops. A man is trapped in his basement following a scene in which a housecat attacks a (*) dollhouse in a Jack Arnold film in this genre. In an oft-parodied film in this subgenre, CIA agent Charles Grant removes a blood clot from a defecting scientist in the submarine Proteus. For 10 points, identify this subgenre of Fantastic Voyage and a film about an “incredible” man menaced by a common spider. ■END■
ANSWER: shrinking films [accept miniaturization and descriptions of films in which people become smaller; accept descriptions of films set in people’s bodies or the human anatomy; accept The Incredible Shrinking Man; prompt on science fiction]
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