Microbes are brought
back to earth via a space probe from
Venus. A scientist named Doctor Zeitman
(John Carradine) does experiments on
people with the microbes to make people
ageless but yet it turns them into
monsters whenever they get into a rage
and when he dies his evil assistant named
Evelyn Avery (Dawn Wildsmith) takes over
as she approaches an ageing horror film
actress named Lynn Roman (Bobbi Bresee)
who is hurting for a good wage and
successful gigs offering her the serum to
stay young and beautiful.
When she injects the serum it makes her
sick and then whenever she faces her
detractors shre then turns into a hideous
bug-like alien resulting in a predictable
attrition problem.
Someone named Ross Anderson (Drew
Godderis) studied this serum and tries to
warn her about her dangerous attitude but
yet she is totally controlled by this
drug and doesn't listen to his warnings
so she goes on a killing spree towards
movie porducers and casting directors
when she is turned away by them.
There's some interesting cheesy moments
with someone tripping out in an alleyway and
attacking.
We have a scene between Evelyn Avery and Dr.
Zeitman having a
discussion at a table which looks
incredibly rough.
There's a good shot on Lynn Roman lying on her chair suntanning as well as
a good shot on Evelyn herself staring at her standing up.
There's a good dream sequence with Lynn on a stage at an awards ceremony and
then showing her face monstrous holding
the award.
A good close up shot on Lynn looking paranoid and then exposing her
sharp teeth.
A nice shot on Elaine Talbot drying
herself off with a creature standing
behind her.
There's a good intense moment with Ross Anderson trying to confront Lynn on what she's doing to
herself along with a good close up
shot on her with her red eyes and her
screaming.
There's a
moment when Lynn turns into a
beast and throws Harry Fox around which looked
awfully corny.
A good shot on Brent Price being
killed by a creature coming through a
bedroom window.
There's a good shot on Ross being attacked by the creature.
Bottom line is that I knew I was
expecting a trashy monster flick and
that's what I got but it was trashier
than I expected. It is definetely a
tribute to those cheesy monster movie
drive-in's but with barely any class at
all. There are the odd good cheesy terrifying
moments and some intensity saves the film
from bombing but otherwise making this
film was a waste of time. Oh, if you watch a scene in a casting
directors office he has a poster of Kenneth
J. Hall's first writing project The
Tomb which was directed by his
partner Fred Olen Ray as that
one was trashy but alot better than this
one. But don't let the poster fool you
that it went to theatre's as it was a
direct-to-video horror flick like this
one folks.
The acting is
pretty bad but some of the actors try
hard like Bobbi Bresee (Lynn
Roman) as a has
been horror film actress who tries to
show her aggressions but isn't convincing
alot of the times but knew how to cry
emotionally well. Yet is
not convincing when she complains about
her wage towards a
casting director. She overly does it by getting
sick after injecting a needle in her arm. Seems to do well acting
desperate towards someone else for a part in his car and losing control
of herself. Does well acting in a rage
towards someone else in a certain situation. Seems to pull off averagely
by screaming at someone in an office before turning into a monster.
Drew Godderis (Ross Anderson) seemed to do fine with
his serious attitude in the film and can
pull it off not too shabby.
B-movie cult icon Dawn Wildsmith (Evelyn Avery) looked
great for the part as an evil one in the
film by giving people needle's and
turning them into creatures. She speaks
smoothly and has the evil expressions
too. In a scene towards another actress she seems
to pull it off ok speaking to her on how
to succeed in her business. She was credited as Donna Shock
for some strange reason.
Jerry Fox (Harry Fox) coudln't act his way out
of a wet paper bag by playing a casting
director as he shows very little
characteristics to his part.
John Carradine (Dr.
Zeitman) was badly out of
shape in his cameo with his speech as you
can tell he was very close to his death
bed.
Bobbi Bresee
exposes her breasts while taking a bath.
She also takes off her top near a
bathroom mirror as well as taking a
shower too.
Pamela Gilbert strips down to swim
nude in a pool from top to bottom
An arm is ripped
off
A face is mangled
Lots of bloodsheds
A claw is stabbed through a man's chest
A chest explodes
We have some nice cheesy
quivering synthesizer playing by Paul
Natzke during the opening and
closing credits of the film and
everywhere else the music sounds quite
out of tone. |
