In the past year my friend Chris could not stop talking about this film. So when it finally arrived at my doorstep, I knew it was one I was going to have to check out for myself. Chris said the film had all kinds of budget problems and everything. In fact its said that the director told H.R. Giger that without his drawings of the poster the film would lose all its financing. So many people today believe that the only reason this film was ever released was because of Giger’s great poster. But beside that; Future Kill is a film that I’m not sure really how to review it. In other words as a fan I loved it, as a critic I could not stand it.
First and foremost, Future Kill is kind of like “The Warriors” meets Class of Nuke em’ High. The film has that great 80’s b-movie feel, with all that dam funky 80’s music. I loved every second of it as it reminded me of being a kid again, staying up late and watching all of these really bad horror/b-movies that were just so dam good to a young kid with a flowing imagination.
The story is about a group of college frat boys whom attempt to abduct a guy named Eddie Pain, the leader of the anti-nuke mutants. The Mutants live in the slums of the city and are a result of nuclear testing gone wrong. Splatter one of the groups rogue mutants does not believe that Eddie Pain and the rest of the mutant clan should be protesting future nuclear projects and instead should fight the cause with more force. This leads to Splatter killing Eddie Pain, and the frat boys get in the middle of this feud and are blamed for Eddie’s death. Now in the heart of the mutant city, the frat boys must fight their was past the mutant gangs to get back to the college campus alive. However Splatter is also on their tale and he’ll stop at nothing until he kills every last one of them.
Here’s the thing about this film. It’s fun, entertaining, even sometimes funny. Every girl in the film seems to have a nice rack, with the exception of one minor scene. There is even some scenes that might give you a bit of a scare. But overall it’s a film that is indeed very fun to watch. However from the standpoint of a critic, this film is chop full of many, many flaws.
With the exception of Edwin Neil and Marilyn Burns, the acting in this film is so piss poor, it looked like the actors themselves were making up the lines as they went along. The editing was so choppy that there were no even flowing segues into the next scenes, just jump cuts. There were so many continuity issues, as well as plenty of scenes where the boom came into the frame. There is also one scene that takes place in a night clue where we are treated to a whole five minutes of the band on stage. Which trust me, if you watch the people dancing in the club you’ll laugh your ass off, but it was an overall pointless scene that took away from the movie. However if you can look past all this stuff and want to watch an overall fun “Warriors” like film from the 80’s then you’ll enjoy this film.
Overall, as you can tell, from a fans point of view and as someone who grew up watching movies like this in the 80’s I really had a good time watching Future Kill. But at the same time from the technical and critical point of view this movie is a disaster. But all in all, I think fans of films like The Warriors and Class of Nuke Em High will get a kick out of this film.
– Horror Bob
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- Interview with Director Stevan Mena (Malevolence) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Screenwriter Jeffery Reddick (Day of the Dead 2007) - January 22, 2015
- Teleconference interview with Mick Garris (Masters of Horror) - January 22, 2015
- A Day at the Morgue with Corri English (Unrest) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Writer/Director Nacho Cerda (The Abandoned, Aftermath) - January 22, 2015
- Interview with Actress Thora Birch (Dark Corners, The Hole, American Beauty) - January 22, 2015
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