1987 sci-fi movie
Rating: 4/20 (Johnny: 2/20; Josh: 3/20; Fred: 10/20; Libby: 5/20)
Plot: An evil scientist uses a serum to turn cyborgs into sex-crazed killing machines. Some action heroes do their best to stop him and them.
There's not really anything as cool as that poster up there. That's a little misleading although the "mutants" do have the ability to extend their arms and there might be a helicopter. And there's a damsel in distress or two, one who is supposed to be one of the action heroes but who doesn't do much but get saved by the men in the movie. Tim Kincaid, who also directs under the names Joe Gage and Mac Larson, has directed a lot of mostly-straight-to-video winners including Robot Holocaust, Breeders (filmed back-to-back with Mutant Hunt), Bad Girls Dormitory, and Tough Guys: Gettin' Off, the latter which might be pornographic. And gay. Something called Cop Blowers, which Kincaid also acts in, might also be a little pornographic. And gay. And no, I'm not sure what I mean by "a little pornographic," so don't ask. After watching an extended scene where the hero Matt Riker fights a pair of cyborgs in his tighty whities, I guess it shouldn't surprise anybody that Kincaid would spend the latter part of his career dabbling in homosexual pornography, especially since that scene lasted well over a half an hour. This definitely isn't high art. It's not even low art. It's art that is more of the "Hey, we've got a camera and five days with nothing else to do, so let's write a movie script and film it" variety of art. We were all pretty befuddled by the plot but appreciated the work by the sound effects guy. The melting or malfunctioning or whatever cyborgs, the closest things to the titular "mutants" being hunted in this thing, showed off some special effect competency. The sets--urban alleys, tighty whities guy's apartment, the place where main bad gal Cher happens to be--look even worse than you'd expect a movie made for 99 dollars to look although one scene does contain two plants. It's all bad, but what makes it that special kind of bad worth watching are the fight scenes which have to be among the worst I've ever seen. I'm willing to bet there will be more Tim Kincaid for Bad Movie Club in the future.
I thought this would be the first Bad Movie Club that I missed, by the way, but I got back to my hotel room in New Jersey just in time to watch the thing on an iPad. Maybe it would have been much better on the big screen like Tim Kincaid and God intended?
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