Shriek Of The Mutilated 1974 Written by Ed Adlum and Ed Kelleher, directed by Michael Findlay, cinematography by Roberta Findlay. We watched the new Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray. Nice print of a really poor film.
Some college students go on an expedition to a house on an island. There's stories of a Yeti in the area. They have a boring drive up there and a horrible time at the cabin. There's a lot of yelling and running about in the woods.
There's nothing much to recommend about the film. They've got a turgid script and a poor cast to carry it off. Roberta's cinematography is pretty pedestrian with the occasional nice image. The music was inappropriate and annoying. The kind of movie I'd want to punch in the face. It has a nice level of weirdness but it just doesn't make up for for any of the bad work a person has to sit through. It sure made it's 72 min running time seem much, much longer.
Future Kick 1991 Written and directed by Damian Klaus, produced by Roger Corman.
Don the Dragon Wilson is a cyborg in this SF tale set in 2025. The rich have fucked off to the moon and the rest of humanity lives in poverty on the overcrowded Earth. A medical company uses the poor as a body parts bank for the rich. Meg Foster is a woman who goes to Earth to find her husband's killer. Then we find out it was all a simulated reality.
Total Recall came out the year before Future Kick. Not that you can compare the two films. In fact, this was worse than Shriek Of The Mutilated. It might be the reason that Damian never made another film. If I made that film, I'd want the ground to open up under me to save me from having to apologize for it again. Hopefully I'll forget about it by morning. I didn't find a copy on YouTube. So, small mercy.
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