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4.0 out of 5 stars
Inventive, thinking person's low budget gore/SF flick, October 15, 1999
This review is from: Mind Warp [VHS] (VHS Tape)
One of a handful of low-budget films produced by Fangoria magazine, this film certainly delivers the expected genre violence and gore, but beyond that, is a surprisingly inventive little sci/fi film as well. A young woman living in an underground post-holocost society where everyone spends the majority of their lives hooked into a virtual reality dream system, rebels and is banished to the frozen wasteland of the surface. Bruce Campbell is excellent, as always, as a sort of low rent Mad Max who's learned to survive in the wasteland, and becomes involved with our heroine, only to find himself and her taken to another underground world, this one a sort of oddball hell run by canibal mutants. The set design (all built in a small town in Wisconsin!) is extremely inventive and impressive-looking for such a low budget film, and there is no shortage of really oddball characters to liven things up. Some real clever surprises along the way too, that really justify the film's title.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Surprisingly entertaining....., September 10, 2001
This review is from: Mind Warp [VHS] (VHS Tape)
As a fan of low-budget sci-fi and horror, I've found that in most cases poor plot and poor acting can provide worthwhile entertainment if one keeps an open mind. I maintained this open mind when I popped Mindwarp into the VCR and was pleased with how entertaining and good this movie turned out to be. Set in post-apocalyptic times when most of humanity lives in a virtual-reality dream-state, it features a woman who desires a "real" life and, as a result, is outcast to a hostile wasteland. Bruce Campbell is excellent as the "hero" who rescues her from the elements and the wasteland inhabitants -- cannibals. Angus Scrimm (from the Phantasm films) is delightful as the demented underworld cannibal leader. It may sound strange (text on the back of the box gives little insight about the film), but the movie has a very good plot, good special effects and some surprises that easily place this movie in the "own" category.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Entertaining, April 27, 2002
This review is from: Mind Warp [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Mind Warp is a very fun movie to watch, it stars Bruce Campbell(Evil Dead), and Angus Scrim(Phantasm). Mind Warp is a very unusual movie. It takes place in the future and all or most of mankind is living in a dream. Until one courageous women breaks free and discovers Bruce Campbell in the "Dead Lands" and then the two are caputured mutant cannibals, and brought to become slaves for Angus Scrim(the leader and father of the girl). Some parts in the movie are rather gross, but this movie is very entertaining.
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