Customer Reviews

Future Kill [VHS]

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4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I saw future-kill in a local video store and the only reason i rented it is because i saw that it had some of the cast of "the texas chainsaw massacre" (edwin neal, marilyn burns). I looked on the back of the case and read the story and that also sounded very interesting. when i watched the movie i was extremely impressed. it reminded me a lot of "return of the living dead" (which is also really awesome) in how it makes you laugh and also how it shocks you. it is one of my favorite horror movies. splatter (edwin neal) is one of the best horror villains i have seen.

Okay, I admit it, I only gave this movie 5 stars because my theater teacher was in it (badly acting I might add, yet extremely funny), Tom, the Jim Carrey like guy. Overall, I feel the number of stars a movie is given doesn't matter what the people meant to make, its what they did make, and what they made was a very unintentionally funny film with gore and nudity. If you like this, seek out RADIOACTIVE DREAMS.

If you threw "Porky's", "Repo Man," and "Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except" into a blender and sprinkled a dash of 1980s fashion over top, you'd wind up with "Future-Kill," an ultralow-budget, patience-trying waste of time whose only claim to fame is the presence of Edwin Neal (as the villain) and Marilyn Burns, both refugees from the far superior "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

In the near future, a gang of misfits inhabit a city run by a bloodthirstly lunatic named, uh, Splatter (Neal). One night, some frat brothers infiltrate the urban area to carry out a prank at the order of their... frat-master (or whatever those guys are called), run into Splatter and his henchmen, and find themselves on the run for the rest of the film. Granted, the movie does have some noble stabs at social relevance, with the anti-nuke references, and the presentation of a punkish lifestyle as unified and peaceful...

But "Future-Kill" is like 5 minutes of good ideas stretched out to feature length, with lots of abandoned-warehouse padding in between. The opening minutes trick the viewer into thinking that this could be a blend of horror AND comedy, but things get vicious (and tedious) pretty quickly. Much of the acting is poor (to say the least), and Neal's villain isn't given enough screen time.

This movie will be mildly diverting for seasoned genre fan, but casual viewers should steer clear. "Future-Kill" isn't horrible...and it does represent a time when low-budget cinema was alive and uncompromising...but it isn't anywhere near good.

You know that this film was supposed to be serious. but it turns out that it's completely HILLARIOUS!! My buddie and I bought the vhs of this film at a flea market/trade center stand.

When you see the packaging and read the premise and the screenshots on the back of the box, you just KNOW that it is crap! But it's funny CRAP. We have mstie'd (mysterysciencetheater- mst3k) it twice and the title always brings us laughs. AND there's some great one liners too!

ENJOY THE CRAP!