WELCOME TO THE DRIVE IN: METAMORPHOSIS: THE ALIEN FACTOR

Posted On Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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METAMORPHOSIS: THE ALIEN FACTORPLOT: A MUTATED CREATURE GROWN FROM ALIEN DNA BITES A BIO-RESEARCHER AND THEN HE SLOWLY TURNS INTO A MONSTER. THERE YOU WATCH AS THE CREATURE FROM ANOTHER WORLD TAKES OVER AND DESTROYS AND KILLS ALL IN IT’S PATH. THE PLAYERS:PATRICK BARNES AS BRAINTARA LEIGH AS SHERRY GRIFFENDIANNA FLAHERTY AS KIM GRIFFENKATHERINE ROMAINE AS NANCYGEORGE G. MICHAEL FOSTERYEAR: 1990THE TAGLINE: IT CAME FROM ANOTHER WORLDTHE QUOTE: I DON’T KNOW BUT I AIN’T TAKING ITS TEMPERATUREMY CHEESY REVIEW AND THOUGHTS:THIS IS A FLICK THAT HAS SOME TOP NOTCH SPECIAL EFFECTS. COLUCCI AS DR.

THE MONSTER AND CREATURE MAKE UP IS FUN AND CORNY BUT YET PERFECT FOR WHAT THIS MOVIE IS, A DRIVE IN FLICK WITH THE FAN OF HORROR AND GORE AT HAND. THIS MOVIE HAS SOME BAD ASS ONE OF KIND STOP MOTION ANIMATION IN THESPARK OF SUCH MODERN CLASSIC’S LIKE JOHN CARPENTERS THE THING. INTERESTING TO NOTE IS THAT THIS WAS SUPPOSE TO BE THE SEQUEL TO THE DEADLY SPAWN THE MOVIE FROM 1983. THIS MOVIE SHOWCASES A BEAUTIFUL SET UP OF MAKEUP AND CREATURE FEATURE REALITY THAT FEW MOVIES DO. YOU START OUT WITH THE TALOS CORPORATION. THIS FILM IF YOU TOOK OUT THE BAD ACTING, THE HOLE AFTER HOLE IN THE SCRIPT AND JUST WATCH IT FOR IT’S SPECIAL EFFECTS THEN THIS MOVIE IS A TRUE POWERFUL WINNER IN MY BOOK.

MR. SO MR. GRIFFEN THE SECURITY GUARD NOTICES THE AUTOMATIC DOORS TO A LAB ON ONE OF HIS SECURITY CAMERAS IS OPENING AND SHUTTING.

GRIFFEN GOES TO THE LAB DOORS AND THERE LISTENING TO THE COMPUTER OVERHEAD TALK ABOUT MALFUNCTION AND A BIOLOGICAL SPILL, THE CRAZY MAN BENDS DOWN WITH HIS PIN AND DIPS IT INTO A PILE OF RED LIQUID, WHICH IS MORE OR LESS BLOOD, HE THEN PLACES THE PIN BACK IN HIS POCKET. MR. HE USES HIS SECURITY CARD AND OPENS THE DOOR, THERE A DOCTOR RUNS OUT AND FALLS TO THE GROUND DEAD, HIS FACE IS MUTILATED. GRIFFEN STEPS INTO THE LAB AND THERE THE LAB IS DESTROYED.

FLASH TO A LIVING ROOM WHERE YOU ARE INTRODUCED TO SHERRY AND BRAIN, BOTH TRYING TO SEX IT UP, BRAIN WANTING TO BUST A NUT UNTIL KIM THE YOUNGER SISTER TO SHERRY COMES INTO THE LIVING ROOM. IN CLASSIC B-MOVIE CHEESY FASHION A CREATURE, A MONSTER GRABS HIM IN THE CHEST AND THEN THE HEAD PULLING HIM HIM. NOW KIM AND SHERRY ARE THE DAUGHTERS OF MR. BACK AT THE LAB NANCY ANOTHER SCIENTIST AND THE BIG WIG IN THE SUIT THAT OWNS THE COMPANY COMES TO INVESTIGATE AND FINDS MR.

GRIFFEN THE SECURITY GUARD. GRIFFEN AND THE OTHER DOCTOR DEAD WITH THERE FLESH RIPPED OFF. THE ACTING IS ABOUT AS EXCITING AS WATCHING OATMEAL BOIL ON THE STOVE. THERE NANCY AND THE SUIT MAN REFER TO THE CREATURE OR MONSTER AS HIM, OR HE GOT OUT, WE NEED TO FIND HIM. THIS HAS EVERYTHING THAT A CHEESY DRIVE IN B-MOVIE IS SUPPOSE TO HAVE, BAD ACTING, OVER THE TOP PLOT AND THAT’S WHAT REALLY MAKES IT PERFECT. THE BIG WIG AND NANCY TELL THE STORY TO TWO CORPORATE THUGS THAT ARE THERE TO HELP CLEAN UP THE PLACE OF IT’S MONSTER PROBLEM.

IT’S A FUN, WILD, SCI-FI GORY WATCH THAT SPARKS THE VIEWERS INTEREST. NANCY TELLS THE STORY AND YOU THE VIEWER GET TO SEE THE PAST UNFOLD ON SCREEN. NANCY AND A DOCTOR NAMED MICHEAL FOSTER STARTED RESEARCH ON THE ALIEN DNA, OR THE SKIN SAMPLE. AN ALIEN DNA SAMPLE WAS EXPERIMENTED ON BY THE TALOS CORPORATION. THERE THEY MUTATED CREATURES, ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE A DOG CROSSED BETWEEN A RAT, A VENUS FLY TRAP PLANT WITH HUGE TEETH AND ALSO A WATER MUTANT CREATURE AND A GREEN FROG RABBIT LOOKING THING. FLASH FORWARD OVER A PERIOD OF TIME YOU WATCH AS THE MOVIE GOES FORWARD AND NANCY AND OTHERS HAVE TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT IS HAPPENING AND TRY AND STOP THE MUTATION. NOW DOCTOR FOSTER IS WORKING ON THE GREEN FROG MUTANT WHEN IT BITES HIM, THERE ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE BECAUSE IT INFECTS HIM WITH THE ALIEN VIRUS MUTATING HIS HAND.

YOU SLOWLY SEE FOSTER CHANGE INTO A FLESH PILE OF GORE WHICH MAKES HORRIBLE SOUNDS. THERE AFTER NANCY TELLS THE STORY YOU THE VIEWER REALIZE THE MONSTER, THE CREATURE IS MICHEAL FOSTER, HINT WE MUST FIND HIM, OR HE MUST BE FOUND. THE SPECIAL EFFECTS OF THIS PROCESS IS AWESOME. NOW THE MUTATED CREATURES IN THE LAB LOOK LIKE CRACK INFESTED MUPPET REJECTS GIVING IT A CLASSIC B-MOVIE FEEL OF CLAY MOLDED OR A HAND WORKING THE PUPPET. THAT NIGHT HER AND BRAIN BREAK IN FOR ANSWERS THAT’S WHEN ALL B-MOVIE HELL BREAKS LOOSE. TO MAKE ALONG STORY SHORT SHERRY SHOWS UP AT TALOS CORPORATION LOOKING FOR HER FATHER, SHE GETS THE RUN AROUND AND COVER UP ANSWER.

THIS MOVIE MIXES CLASSIC HUMOR ALONG WITH CHEESY DIALOGUE AND MOST OF ALL THAT RETRO STYLE DRIVE IN FARE, THAT CHESSY WAY THAT SO MANY CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIES HAD FROM LONG AGO. THIS IS WHAT A GOREHOUND WOULD LOOK FOR IN A MOVIE. THIS MOVIE HAS SOME MASSIVE GORE, AND WILL SATISFY ANY GOREHOUND. FROM RUNNING AND SCREAMING TO YELLING AND KICKING AND HITTING, VIOLENCE AND GORE, MUTATED CREATURES EVERYTHING AND MORE FROM THIS LITTLE B-MOVIE GEM. THIS IS THE GIANT PENIS MONSTER THAT EATS PEOPLE. ONCE YOU SEE THE FINAL PRODUCT OF THE CREATURE THAT FOSTER BECOMES IT LOOKS LIKE A GIANT LONG ERECT PENIS, SHAFT AND ALL AND THE TIP OF THE PENIS HAS TEETH, OR YOU COULD SAY HERPES ON THE END OF IT.

THE CREATURE SHOOTS THESE LITTLE SMALL GOOBER BALLS WITH TEETH THAT BITE INTO YOU AND RELEASE A POISON, THE MONSTER ALSO HAS LONG TENTACLE LIKE ARMS THAT SHOOT OUT AND BITES INTO YOU. IT’S A FUN DRIVE IN MOVIE TO EAT YOUR POPCORN TO, THE CREATURE EFFECTS MAKE IT WHAT IT IS. I WOULD LIKE TO PAUSE HERE AND SAY THAT, I BET YOU THEY COULD HAVE SAVED THE DAY IF THEY WOULD HAVE STOPPED AND GIVEN THE GIANT PENIS MONSTER A GIANT TWAT.

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