Mutant Man

Year: 1996

Director: Suzanne de Laurentiis

Written by: Suzanne de Laurentiis

Threat: Psychopath

Weapon of Choice: Hands

Based upon: Original

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Rish Outfield's reviews
WOW, this movie sucked. Within thirty seconds (the first line is "It's eeevil!"), I knew it was gonna be bad. And oh yeah, it was.
When I wasn't laughing (and I laughed non-stop for the first fifteen minutes) I took a few notes along the way: A bad movie. Boy, this sucks. Mutant Man is an interesting attempt to gain as many skulls as possible in the least amount of time, yet still remain somewhat dull and plodding. It got skull after skull after skull! Look, the music just detracted! Hey, the car stalled! My, that was terrible dialogue (since when did a girl turn into a spider in Charlotte's Web?)! Wow, a girl just lifted up her shirt for no reason! And worst of all, this got about eleven What the Hell's in the first twenty minutes. Potato salad actually figures in! Wow, this sucks. I've had bowel movements that were less crappy than this. It is part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, part what the F**K?!
I also said it was ‘shitty' with six i's. But let me say two positive things about Mutant Man (wow, I simply cannot stop saying the title of this movie . . . it may be worse than Blue Monkey). First, for an independent, no-budget mindless grade-Z Horror film shot on video, it had some pretty colours in it. And second, it was pee-your-pants funny. Unintentionally, of course. It is among the worst, the least frightening, the most embarrassing, the least logical, the most juvenile, the least-literate, and stupidest movies I've ever seen, but I had more fun and laughed harder during this than the last half-dozen flicks by the Zucker Brothers. As awful as it is, I think one day I'll see it again.
Best Scare: Heh, heh.
I'd Recommend It To: A rowdy group of beer-guzzling bad-horror fans, very late at night.
Note: Yes, as I mentioned, this movie made me want to upgrade "What the Hell" to "What the F**k??" But I don't run the show.

The tyranist's thoughts
It probably says terrible, terrible things about me, but after reading Rish's review of this movie, I knew that one day I would have to see it. Well, Rish came to visit the other day and guess what he brought. In retrospect, I'm not sure I should have been so excited.
So there's this camper filled with teens (some of which look older than the two "adults" driving the camper) and they get lost. Apparently in the middle of nowhere. Well, a nice friendly, if strange, woman invites them to camp on her lot by the lake and they gleefully accept. Let the hacking and slashing begin.
There were so many plot and detail inconsistencies in this that I kept wondering if any of the crew had bothered reading the script. Of course, the dialogue was so hideous, that the script probably wasn't worth reading anyway. The death effects were horrible as well. A couple of times unnamed characters were introduced expressly for the purpose of being killed withing 30 seconds. There was a scene with a high school marching band that came out of nowhere (especially when you remember that this is the middle of nowhere). It's pretty apparent that the best thing about this movie is the cover art on the box it came in.
I wouldn't bother wasting my time with this again although it might be fun with a large group who just want to tear a movie apart.

Total Skulls: 38

Sequel
Sequel setup skull
Rips off earlier film skull Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title skullskull
Bad premise skullskull
Bad acting skullskull
Bad dialogue skullskull
Bad execution skull
MTV Editing
OTS skull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked skull
Wanton sex skull
Death associated with sex skull
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise skull
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door skull
Camera is the killer skull
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls skullskull
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start skull
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare skull
Stupid discovery of corpse skullskull
Dream sequence
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene skullskull
Death in first five minutes skull
x years before/later skull
Dark and stormy night skull
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim skull
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster skull
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect skull
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives skull
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots skullskull
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending skull
What the hell? skullskull