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Hybrid

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This movie starts with a montage of scenes from other movies, apparently depicting an alien attack against Earth, though it comes off looking more like maybe an earthquake hit and a bunch of cars started on fire. Then we get to the post-apocalyptic wasteland, where our characters are riding in that really cool Landmaster vehicle from Damnation Alley. I really didn't like our characters at all, they just argue with each other throughout the entire movie. I don't know what it is with movie makers these days, they can't seem to give any of their characters any personality, so they just have them fight. It's a real chore to sit through. But, on the bright side, you do have Brink Stevens and J.J. North, a couple of hot looking babes.

Anyhow, the vehicle breaks down, they need to find shelter before an "ion storm" hits, and they run into Tim Abell who's wandering the wasteland looking for his sister or daughter or somebody. He knows of a scientific research facility where they can find shelter, so they set out in search of it. Once there, they find it deserted, except for a half-decomposed body that was just waiting for someone to walk by so that it could fall down from the ceiling. Yeah, pretty believable...NOT! Anyhow, the whole place looks like the basement of a large building, full of pipes and stuff. They wander around, argue, make threats, argue some more, Brinke and J.J. do a nude shower scene together, and then J.J. takes her top off again and has sex with Abel's character. There's some monster lurking about, it occasionally kills someone if they're stupid enough to walk right up to it without noticing it.

Overall, the characters are pretty flat and generic, the acting is uniformly bad, and the plot just sort of sits there with very little momentum or much of a climax. The whole thing could have been improved quite a bit with some appropriately cheesy theme music, but they missed the mark on that as well. It's a real shame about the complete inability of film makers to come up with any sort of interesting characters these days. Too bad it wasn't made in the '80s, this could have been a cult classic with better characters and a more creative plot. But it's from the '90s when people just don't try very hard and weren't really very good in the first place. Oh well. I give it two stars, plus an extra one for the nudity.

I rented this movie (thank God I didn't buy it). Plot - rehashed and borrowed from so many other movies. Acting - I don't think there was any. Monster - worst than the worst Godzilla suit.

In between the lesbian shower scene (OK this scene wasn't too bad) and actress(?) JJ North humping on top of McQueen on an operating table there is supposedly a Sci Fi movie about an altered human trapped in a science facility in post apocalyptic earth. Eventually everyone starts getting picked off by the Hybrid.

It's just bad...

In addition you get tips from the director before the movie on how to get girls to take their tops off so plenty of breast shots.

Bottom Line: plenty of T&A, no acting, old, tired plot...

Fred Olen Ray's NITE OWL THEATER is the hosting entity for this lurid, derivative and downright awful sci fi flick. The best thing about the DVD is the opening with Ray acting as host, with some pretty cheesy broads and off color humor. I know he's laughing all the way to the bank on these straight to video howlers.
HYBRID finds our cast in a post-apocalyptic world trying to find shelter from an impending ion storm!! Needless to say they stumble upon a scientific lab where genetic experiments were being performed, of course those experiments went dangerously awry and one of the creastures (that looks like a mini-Godzilla)is on the loose. His goal: to mate with an earthling and create more mini Godzillas. The cast is horrible, even the usually enjoyable Tim Abell. Scream queen Brinke Stevens emotes like a jellyfish and J. J. North has huge boobs, but sounds like the voice of a Barbie doll. G. Gordon Baer as the requisite whining ex-prisoner is so bad one can't wait for him to bite the dust. John Barrymore III gets top billing but is offed rather early in the film. The special effects are laughable, the editing amateurish and the whole thing is really a bad movie. If not for Ray's opening, it would only have gotten one star. Rent, but don't buy unless you're feeling sadomasochistic.

Fred O. Ray appears at the beginning of this film (DVD version) with an offer to write him a line, & he'll send you a free gift. Pitty it's not an invitation to get your money back.

This is set in a post-apocalyptic world. A creature wants to mate with a woman. That alone was enough to make me want to buy this, but it's a turkey, it's not even sexy. It's certainly not scary - except to realise that someone paid to have this film made!

Avoid!

Hybrid is a low budget sci-fi film with slight hints of Alien and Godzilla (!), and with a few pinches of nudity (the shower scene is one of the best ever!).
In short, the acting and the dialogues are very poor, the plot and the setting are average, while are special effects are (literally) non-existent.
Nevertheless, Fred Olen Ray does not let us down, what with the beautiful women and the sexy scenes. As far as sexy B-movies are concerned, Hybrid is decent.
Overall, far from being a masterpiece, it just might provide for an evening's entertainment if in a really silly mood and/or intoxicated.

don't really have much to say about this movie except it's god awful! i guess you shouldn't really expect much from fred olen ray though and his night owl theatre or whatever. anyways the creature is ridiculous and laughable. not to mention the acting is disgraceful. and the plot? well there really is none. another boring movie thats hard to sit through. definitely would pass this one up. few nude scenes but what horror movie doesn't have it's fair share of those. you've been forewarned

The beginning of the film takes either a lot of really cheap effects, or used some pretty bad stock footage to try and combine a scenario of what if ships from Star Wars attacked Earth. The combination of showing a spaceship firing lasers, and a Volkswagen beetle crashing in a suburban street where really badly cut together... so bad that it shows a spaceship firing lasers with stars in space behind it, and the car crashes in broad day light in the next scene.

So then some kind of futuristic soccer moms van is transporting a few meds who not only know how to pilot a spaceship apparently, but are also medical marines of some sort as the terribly designed plastic armor suits they where over their military gear compliments the oversize machine guns they use... which by the way, don't shoot lasers or anything futuristic, they fire normal bullets cause all the money for effects obviously went into the supply of extra camera reels to film useless soft core nude scenes to throw into the movie for no apparent reason what-so-ever.

So their van breaks down, and they head out into the desert on foot, so our characters are the boring good looking dorky guy, a fat guy, and two chicks who couldn't act their way out of a paper bag, one who looks like the chick from Touched by an Angel and the other a Pamala Lee wanna-be to try and attract underage boys who's parents installed net-nanny so their looking for a fix. Then they meet up with some kind of Emilo Estefez wanna-be, in which the movie should have started after this point, because the whole getting lost and meeting him seemed irrelevant to anything else needed to play out this films thin plot.

So the Emilo wanna-be claims he is looking for his lost son, yet this character development pays off to nothing by the end. They venture into a research base and get into the computer to find out the place was a laboratory working on developing a genetic soldier made of a snake and a cockroach (The Hybrid) but when you see it looks more like it was a recycled costume from a Godzilla movie trying to imitate scenes from Alien. So someone realizes their in danger, more non essential character dialog happens, a couple of useless soft-core porn scenes, a death here and their and then an ending that made me roll my eyes more then the stupid scenes between the two girls giggling about who they want to screw while apparently doing each other... bad effects, bad editing, bad actors, bad movie... however, something about it didn't make me wanna turn the movie off, I think it was my interest to see just HOW bad they could make the finale of the whole thing. And yup, they managed to screw that up too, I could point out a million lose ends and such, but I'm not going to bother, i've said enough. It's not the kind of movie i'd buy, and I'd say wait till it's on TV to see it if you have any interest in it, but I doubt it would ever be shown on television unless they played a marathon of really crappy movies for inspiring movie makers on how not to make a film.

Overall, I guess watching two girls soap each other down in the shower for no apparent reason isn't going to fool me into giving this movie any kind of praise or a higher rating then 1 star. if I wanted softcore porn, i'd watch a softcore porno.

A bunch of military techie survivalists are out in the desert in their Damnation Alley truck when they decide to abandon their vehicle. On foot they meet another character shortly before an ion storm comes. To survive they need to find shelter. They go to a laboratory that look more like a boiler room. Once safe from the storm they find out that the storm is the least of their worries.

Unable to leave the facility because of the storm, the group soon discovers that a genetically-manipulated hybrid is loose in the station. I wiped out the previous tenants in short order. Now it wants them. They need to either avoid it until they can leave or find some way to kill it. Neither solution is easy or safe. In fact there are times when they have the upper hand and don't take it.

Anyone who has seen Creepozoids will recognize the plot of this one. Creepozoids had Linnea Quigley while this one has Brinke Stevens. Some action, some violence, some nudity, some tongue-in-cheek humor, and a cast that keeps splitting up combine to make this film. Not bad but not great either. Still worth a look for fans of monster films. Check it out.

In 1997 a sci-fi movie titled "Hybrid" and directed by Fred Olen Ray was released. In 2000 a documentary titled "Hybrid" about Milford Beeghly (an Iowa farmer and early developer of hybrid seed corn) and directed by Monteith McCollum was released. The customer reviews for Hybrid seem to be about the sci-fi movie, but the product details suggest the documentary is the actual item.

Alright, I happen to be a fan of the late night tele and Fred Olen Ray, so this review might be a little biased. First off, it's a very cheesy rip-off of Aliens. I think the truck in the beginning of this movie is from one of the Alien movies. The premise is different than Aliens, but the plot is the same:a beast that is a fighting machine kills people one at a time, minus the amazing ambiance and FX (even though, the monster is very amusing and not that quick, yet he killed 48 people!?). It even has an ode to Ed Wood when the aliens attack Earth at night and the buildings are shown blowing up in daylight. By the way, this scene has barely anything to do with the plot. The cheese has begun! There are even scenes where you can see the actor/actresses shadow on a wall that is not supposed to be there. The acting is weak, the dialog is weak [...], but what do you expect. It does, however, star scream queen Brinke Stevens, and that is a plus. The DVD overall is decent. There aren't many special features, but I do like night owl theater and the quality of the DVD is good. So, my point is that this is a great late-night movie to watch if you're into that sort of thing. It is fun, but not to be taken seriously. For fans of late-night TV only.