Superbeast
November. 01,1972 RA doctor finds a jungle laboratory, complete with mad scientist and genetic engineering experiments
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Great Film overall
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Filmed in the Philippines, not exactly suspenseful or atmospheric; a female pathologist, Dr. Alix Pardee (Antoinette Bower), investigates the death of a mysterious, brutish man. She finds that an American scientist, Dr. Bill Fleming (Craig Littler), is engaging in strange experiments on local criminals and the failures are set loose as slow hairy targets deep in a Philippine jungle so they can be hunted down by a wealthy and sadistic rancher from Texas, Stewart Victor (Harry Lauter). The title promises a Superbeast, which is released close to the movies finale. Guess who has developed into the creature? Of note: this is the first credited role for Ms. Bower and the last movie featuring veteran character actor Lauter. Also in the cast: Vic Diaz, Manny Ojeda and John Garwood.
I can't tell you just how awful this film was, words can barely describe the shear incompetence of the filmmakers here.The long and short of it is that a man escapes from the jungles in the Philippines, goes on a rampage on an airplane, and during his rather graphic autopsy, they find something troubling.A cute doctor travels to where he came from, only to find herself going over a waterfall after long and pointless canoing scenes. I should point out we are going to see a lot of that here, where about 30 minutes of plot points are stretched out over 90 minutes of film.She meets a mad scientist who is trying to cure violent behavior with drugs, because it was the 1970's and people thought drugs could cure everything, and his buddy the rich hunter who hunts down all his failed experiments. Except the lead actress's affect is so flat you can't really tell what her reaction is to any of this. She objects, I guess.The movie ends in some odd scene where the scientist is tricked into drinking his own formula and regresses into a cave man and goes on a pointless rampage because they had another 30 minutes to fill.Ugh. Avoid at all costs.
This whole movie was absolute garbage. Did anyone else catch the hand-grenade being thrown and then the floor of the plane exploding before it actually hit the ground. One other thing I would have to wonder is, what the hell was the last ten minutes of the movie? I mean I even tried watching it after extensive drinking and still didnt understand it. Weird stuff. Just stay away from it...far away...
Do not see this movie. It is by all means the worst movie I have ever seen. Bad Acting, bad writing, bad lighting, bad everything. Nothing happens until the last twenty minutes and then you wish even that hadn't happened. If people were suck, this movie would be china. It is a horrid black whole that no human being should endure. Not even chemical help can make this movie tolerable.