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