It’s everything else! Despite a huge budget and experienced thespians, it’s a jaw-dropper. But the goriness, the animal brutality, and the tortuous killing are not the ingredients that make this slop a rival for worst film of all time. Doesn’t all this sound delightful? Yumm, pass the popcorn. (Why does he now have superhuman strength? Well, now see, that’s one of those old plausibility questions we audience members are not supposed to ask.) Then, a woman is raped (off camera, thank God) another woman is strangled another character has his head bashed in (lots of blood) another is speared while another is knocked down into a pool of blood, then has her neck broken.
Nutcase forces him below with the aid of his new superhuman strength. Each time the victim struggles to the surface to cry out for help, Dr. Here, one man is drowned in his pool by the invisible scientist. Director Verhoeven (“Total Recall” “Starship Troopers”), however, returns to the more gory and brutal antics of ‘70s fright flicks such as “Friday the 13th,” where nearly every character is sadistically executed. Of late, we have seen some spooky movies, (“Sixth Sense”), that use eeriness rather than slasher brutality to unnerve the audience. But, although the visual of a skinless body may be tolerable to premed students, watching a man contort in agony sans outer covering begins to make scenes of a gobbled-up rodent look tame. There is some effective imagery depicting a solution injected into the arm of an invisible ape that streams along its intravenous system. For those still not completely desensitized by moviedom’s excessive savagery, it will be a stomach-turner. For its intended audience, that will be cool.
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For the first time in movie history, we see a rat being grabbed, his little body caving in as if squeezed by a vise, then eaten by an invisible carnivore. Of course, it has a huge special effects budget, which occasionally impresses. It is, indeed, a bad movie – perhaps one of the worst I can remember. As my cousin said to me halfway through the screening, “This is a bad movie.” Understated, but succinct. Move over “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” there’s a contender in town vying for the infamous mantel of worst picture of all time.
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