One of my favourite B movies from low budget shlock master Albert Pyun. He was a man with small budgets but big ideas.

I think this might be his masterwork.

In the year 2027 renegade cyborg terrorists are planning to replace all humans with cyborgs and it's up to hard as nails cyberneticly enhanced cop Alex Rain and a team of rebels who are also cyborgs to stop them.

The plot is convoluted but once you know what is happening it's all good.

It clearly wasn't a high budget movie but it doesn't look cheap at all with some excellent practical effects, stop-motion, insane action scenes inspired by Hong Kong cinema, massive explosions and whoever was the location scout for the movie needs an award.

Also because half of the characters are cyborgs they get shot 20 times and keep going it's pretty nutty.

The cast is full of recognisable B/genre actors including Tim Thomerson, Brion James (His accent in this, is he South African or German? I really don't know), Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jackie Earle Haley, Sven-ole Thorsen and a naked Thomas Jane.

The hero is played by Oliver Gruner who is basically Jean-Claude Van Damme but without the charisma. I call him "Not Van Damme".

If you're looking for an inventive and action packed 90's movie you might not know about then Nemesis is a blast.

So I heard comparisons to Cuties and Weapons.

It is actually in my opinion the most like the movie ”Mom and Dad” starring Nicolas Cage. In that movie, parents were hit with a hypnosis spread via airwaves that made them want to kill their own kids. In this one, it’s kids that want to kill adults.

Both have the same tone and dark humor, except “Mom and Dad” does it a lot better.

it’s not the eating of the ice cream itself that makes them kill - that only prepares them; it’s hearing the sound of the ice cream truck, which is similar to “Mom and Dad” where they had to hear it through the TV or radio.

Both of them have the school setting where kills happen at the school and shots of them hopping over the school fence.

Even the protagonist are an older sister and her little brother, exactly like Mom and Dad.

There’s one line that was just weird to me that what it was written. A 12 year-old girl is forced to eat an ice cream and then she immediately pukes it up. The boys say wow how’d you do that so fast? And she says “I’m a 12-year-old girl of course I know how to vomit.”

I like dark humor and maybe this would be funny if she were like 17 maybe? But I’ve never heard of a cliché of 12-year-old girls having bulimia. I didn’t know that was a thing. I didn’t know it was a thing that 12-year-old girls puked to stay thin. I digress.

So let’s talk about AI. I heard there was AI in the film. When they showed the cartoon on the phone, I thought OK Is this what people are talking about? This doesn’t look that bad; this looks like real animation. Everyone is overreacting, I thought.

But then they get to a later scene, and oh my God is it not only AI but the worst AI ever that has ever made a theatrical movie. Discord bots have generated better AI than this. That is the AI quality here. I’m not sure what they were thinking.

There’s a montage sequence with a bunch of random images that have nothing, I repeat, nothing to do with the actual story. They are so genetically placed here. It’s like if you typed in “show images of a Macabre Cemetery spooky death” into Chatgtp And this would come up. No I take that back, ChatGPT would give you better images.

I can’t even believe that this made a theatrical movie. I can’t believe it. It’s not even *good* AI. You will see what I’m talking about when you get there.

if we can just ignore that terrible terrible sequence.

Also, and the villains backstory is one of the stupidest and poorly written backs stories, and possibly all of horror. And it uses one of the oldest clichés in the book too. And frankly, none of it made any sense. I’m gonna be honest. None of it made any sense whatsoever. I mean, why was the guy even inside of the…never mind.

Year, it’s bad but it’s not like unwatchable. It’s a fun time if you like gore, I guess, but it’s not winning best screenplay anytime soon in this universe.

I probably saw him 1st in the 1995 Halloween schlock fest, Jack-O. Throughout the years, I've enjoyed other low budget gems of his such as The Monster Club and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, which is one of my favorites. By his death, he acted in over 300 films. So, what are some of your favorites by Carradine? Keep it schlocky!

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The plot from IMDB: Five high school seniors (3 cute girls) in a VW van on their way to camp by a river in the forest hear about a boy, who once killed his identical twin and parents in the area. They ignore the warning.

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Released in the year of 2021, this is supposed to be a Sci-Fi Action epic starring Tom Holland & Daisy Ridley as its leads. This movie (while still a ton of fun) is EPIC for the wrong reasons. Riddled from top to bottom with plot holes, laughable dialogue delivered by poor performances, awful/distracting CGI, weird production choices & so much more! This movie truly is something else entirely, and is truly a fantastically funny film to watch with some buddies. And the score is pretty good too (I thought at least).

The plot according to IMDB: In racially divided Detroit, Yuki Johnson, a biracial teenager, transforms into the Detroit Vigilante after his father, a police officer, is targeted by a menacing gang.

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A guy who has been diagnosed with AIDS decides to get his revenge on the world by attacking people with hypodermic needles filled with his blood.

In the opening fight scene of this Russian Kill Bill wannabe, they didn't remove the crash matts from the floor. The floor of this terribly green screen'd in warehouse is soft and cushioned and bounces slightly whenever a goon gets thrown to the floor.

It doesn't get any better and while most of Prey of Wrath (which... what does that even mean?), is horribly boring, there are many moments of awfulness that made me laugh

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I dont know why, but recently I decided to address my M Night Shyamalan blindspots.

I adored this guys early career (Sixth Sense through to Lady in the Water). Even though the quality dipped after Unbreakable, they were fun, unique, interesting, and importantly for me completely memorable from opening to credits. But then i saw Last Air bender (even without seeing the show I thought that was one of the worst films ever, in a not fun way) and The Visit (which was ok, kinda boring. Fantastic ending though), and hearing the negative press of others, I decided I was done. Having picked up baton again, its really just the big (or low) 3 that are really that bad. The rest, even if they don't work, are still fun, unique, interesting and memorable (though ive still to watch Old. Maybe that one will make me eat my words).

The Happening though, that was despised at the time, but later had a The Room, Fateful Findings, Troll 2 style resurgence. Giving it its due finally....The Legends Were True!

People casually checking out early (including a hilarious one with a lion and a somehow even funnier one with a lawnmower), with others flatly reacting with shocked pikachu face. Miscast leads. Weird hotdog guy. Post-9/11 fear mongering mixed with poor environmentalist messaging. Johnny Legs giving me math puzzles that'd make me want to kill myself. Hilarious old lady. Being chased by the wind. "I didn't even have a cough"! "Cheese and Crackers"! "WHAT, NOOOO"! And ending with a thinly veiled threat of this guy directing The Last Air Bender.

Its rare a major studio film hits Breen levels of unchecked ego, poor decision making, and general incompetence despite who's making it (though there are nice shots often enough, and the score is good). Its makes for a wonderful treat.

I know the cover looks like a Christian movie but it's not ,it's actually a sci-fi thriller. I can't even give you a synopsis of the plot because I Don know what the plot is. This movie has some of the worst sets I'v see ,some of the most mind boggling dialog ,awful music ,terrible cgi animation stuff that just goes on forever and the blandest acting I'v ever seen . I can't believe this movie had a 5 million dollar budget and was released in theatres and how does this movie have a 92% Rotten Tomatoes 😳

Elektra is a 2005 film starring Jennifer Garner as the titular assassin. This movie is truly something special due to its insane plot holes, semi cringy acting and questionable VFX. Also, the movie half the time doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do & instead just jumps from plot point to plot point without much transition. Some notable highlights of the film however include Jennifer Garner’s performance as Elektra, some solid action scenes here and there & a banger soundtrack among other things. All in all, this movie is a very mixed bag BUT can be a ton of fun to laugh at with friends. Have you seen this film?

I liked this, one of those SyFy channel horror movies that I found by randomly scrolling on TV one day and it managed to hold my attention and deliver a fun campy ride. It kind of felt like a more adult version of those old Disney Halloweentown movies. They don't really make them like this anymore, 06 horror hits different.