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In a film titled for this sort of animal, a car crash victim is horrified to see the phrase “I will kill you” on his windshield. The protagonist of a film titled for this sort of animal jokes that his medicine cabinet is a “museum of natural history.” Nani exacts revenge on a tycoon after his rebirth as this sort of animal in a film by S. S. Rajamouli (“RAH-juh-mow-lee”). The protagonist of a film titled for this sort of animal alludes to literature in both a line likening himself to one of these animals who “dreamt he was a man, but now the dream is over,” and the line, (15[1])(*) “drink deep, or taste not the plasma spring.” Chris Walas won an Oscar for creating seven “stages” of makeup for a film titled for this animal. (10[1])As producer, Mel Brooks coined the tagline “be afraid; be very afraid” for a film titled for this sort of animal, whose protagonist apologizes to a baboon for killing its brother while experimenting with “telepods.” For 10 points, a 1986 David Cronenberg film (10[1])depicts a scientist’s fusion with what sort of insect? ■END■

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