Mindwarp (1992)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.0/10   

Director:

Steve Barnett

Escritores:

John D. Brancato (writer)
Michael Ferris (writer)

Género:

Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

In the future, life will be a dream. And reality a nightmare.

Plot:

A young woman in a post-apocolyptic world rebels against the status quo, in which everyone lives their...

Plot Keywords:

Wasteland | Virtual Reality | Cannibal | Ultraviolet Radiation | Crucifixion

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Better than expected for a low budget scifi/horror flick

Reparto

Bruce Campbell	...	Stover
Angus Scrimm	...	Seer / Systems Operator
Marta Alicia	...	Judy
Elizabeth Kent	...	Cornelia
Mary Becker	...	Mom
Wendy Sandow	...	Claude
Brian Brill	...	Tenor
Bekki Vallin	...	Pregnant Woman
Matt Hensley	...	Cop #1
Keith Rodenberger	...	Cop #2
Gene McGarr	...	Infinisynth Announcer
Roger Perkovich	...	Crawler
John Thorpe	...	Crawler
Gerald Shidell	...	Crawler
Tyrone Yonash	...	Crawler

También conocida como:

Odisea en el tiempo (Spain) [es]

Duración:

91 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Sonido:

Ultra Stereo

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 | USA:R | Germany:Película restringida en Alemania

Locaciones de Filmación:

Gay, Michigan, USA

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Bruce Campbell met his wife Ida Gearon in the set of this film. According to his auto-biography, Campbell approached her with the excuse of wanting to learn how to sew, which is what his character would do in the movie.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Matrix (1999)

Better than expected for a low budget scifi/horror flick

Chaucer this ain't! Mindwarp is a low budget horror flick that makes no pretensions, and delivers no surprises. Starring the always reliable Bruce Campbell, and a very weak Marta Alicia, the movie is your basic post-apocalyptic romp with monsters, mutants, evil wizards, etc. Higher on the gore content than many of its compatriots, the movie also lacks the tongue in cheek humor that makes some of these flicks fun to watch (Sam Rami's Army of Darkness comes to mind).

The movie does elicit good performances from Bruce Campbell, who has made a successful career fighting heavily made up extra's in movies and Rami's Herc/Xena series. Campbell knows the score and delivers the deadpan hero mode needed to make these pictures bearable. Surprisingly good back up work by supporting actors Angus Scrimm and Elizabeth Kent, doing something with very little in the dialogue department, also add to the film. The one big problem is the female lead, Marta Alicia, who has obviously forgotten that she is no longer in Grade 10 drama, and delivers her lines in a one note (ie. - whiny) tone. Forgetting that her major role is to scream, look frightened, and lose most of her clothing at strategic intervals, Alicia instead appears to be trying to ACT, mainly by looking annoyed and whining a lot.

Overall, the flic ain't bad. The writing is better than expected, with several plot twists at the end and even a hint of an Electra complex (shades of Freud) along the way. The special effects aren't, and the budget was obviously stretched in the makeup department, as most of the 'mutants' look like trick or treaters wearing Holloween masks from Walmart.

I rented this at Blockbuster for 99 cents. That's about the right price.