“The Scientist” (*1/2 out of four) was a rambling horror thriller about an iconoclastic scientist (Robb Hudspeth) who is caring for his terminally ill wife (Kristin Keith) and their daughter (Addison McGarry) and embarks on a journey to find a cure for his wife which includes tampering with human DNA; it may save his wife but may also lead to the extinction of humanity but film asks what would you do in same dire situation? You have to admire writer/director Derrick Granado for trying to ingrain an added moral and emotional element to this tired horror framework but result is stillborn and forgettable. Maybe scientists need to work more on saving the horror genre.