I purchased this film when I was in my must purchase every horror film of the 80's mode. Granted, I still would like to do so, just gets expensive because you cannot just walk into your local retail store and purchase said item, but instead you have to order them online. This film looked interesting and it had a rather cool premise and so I got it. What did I get exactly? Well, a B horror film with a couple of stars of note and a radioactive monster! You also get an inconsistent monster, a plot point involving a mother whose son is missing that does not really get resolved and a climax that goes on for a tad too long. Still, while not a good film, it was entertaining in a way. Some good kills to be had, though they brought out one of the best ones first and it also has that B movie charm of being so bad it is kind of good in a way. Martin Landau is in the film too, and I have to wonder how the heck that convinced him to take this role. There are a couple of other actors and actresses of note in it, but no one you will probably know by name, but rather the type you recognize them from something else cheesy.
The story has a radio DJ always commenting on the weather and how bad the rain is, but come to think of it, I do not recall actually seeing it rain in the film...Well, a dude is getting chased right out of the gate and he tries to escape only to get his head torn off! Others start dying and I am thinking this film is totally awesome! Then the film kind of slows down and it just is not as good as it seemed like it was going to be. A detective who has run in after run in with the monster tries to convince the ever skeptical mayor that there is a monster loose while his wife is kind of a nut job trying to rid her town of adult entertainment, or smut as it were. I really think they could have simply added more deaths if they felt the need to pad the film.
The film is short and it is padded to make it as long as it got. As I said, they could have just done some more killing instead of adding the smut plot point or the strange dream sequence. Heck, they could have simply made the plot point with the old woman whose son went missing actually go somewhere instead of just kind of petering out. Literally, it looked like something was going to happen with the waitress at the woman's house and nothing ever came of it.
So the film was a fun film to watch, but in the end it is a pretty bad film. Not completely horrid mind you as it was an enjoyable kind of bad. The premise was good and had they been able to keep up with the break neck pace of the first half hour it would of been an insanely more fun B movie treasure. Throw in a bit more nudity, some more kills and more kitty cats sneaking up on people! Seriously, that scene was really stupid as a cat startles the two leads as cats tend to do in these movies and they just life and hug each other and become good friends over a trivial thing. The detective really could not stand the guy earlier and it was not as if they really had that much time to bond or anything. So a great kill to kick it off, but its pace slows, but overall entertaining, but keep in mind in a bad way for the most part.
The story has a radio DJ always commenting on the weather and how bad the rain is, but come to think of it, I do not recall actually seeing it rain in the film...Well, a dude is getting chased right out of the gate and he tries to escape only to get his head torn off! Others start dying and I am thinking this film is totally awesome! Then the film kind of slows down and it just is not as good as it seemed like it was going to be. A detective who has run in after run in with the monster tries to convince the ever skeptical mayor that there is a monster loose while his wife is kind of a nut job trying to rid her town of adult entertainment, or smut as it were. I really think they could have simply added more deaths if they felt the need to pad the film.
The film is short and it is padded to make it as long as it got. As I said, they could have just done some more killing instead of adding the smut plot point or the strange dream sequence. Heck, they could have simply made the plot point with the old woman whose son went missing actually go somewhere instead of just kind of petering out. Literally, it looked like something was going to happen with the waitress at the woman's house and nothing ever came of it.
So the film was a fun film to watch, but in the end it is a pretty bad film. Not completely horrid mind you as it was an enjoyable kind of bad. The premise was good and had they been able to keep up with the break neck pace of the first half hour it would of been an insanely more fun B movie treasure. Throw in a bit more nudity, some more kills and more kitty cats sneaking up on people! Seriously, that scene was really stupid as a cat startles the two leads as cats tend to do in these movies and they just life and hug each other and become good friends over a trivial thing. The detective really could not stand the guy earlier and it was not as if they really had that much time to bond or anything. So a great kill to kick it off, but its pace slows, but overall entertaining, but keep in mind in a bad way for the most part.