Theme: Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation refers to the process of being able to regain one’s youth. This is at contrast to Immortality, which deals with people who are very long-lived or do not die.

Genre cinema is filled with Mad Scientists who are constantly seeking to perfect rejuvenation formulas. The adventure film has the quest for the Fountain of Youth. Some fantasy films feature people seeking magical means of achieving rejuvenation. Horror films feature people preying upon others for their lifeforce or to obtain necessary elements of the formula.

Rarely is the process successful. It can frequently entail a high cost or require extracts from other living persons. Failure to do can often end with the rejuvenated failing to replenish their youth and all of their age catching up with them at once.