Product Details

• Actors: Starr Andreeff, Mitchell Laurance, David Gale, Charles Lucia, Riva Spier
• Directors: George Elanjian Jr.
• Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: ELITE ENTERTAINMENT
• DVD Release Date: October 28, 2003
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000C23GR
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #106,307 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Norton Cyberdyne, a multinational corporation which produces military defense technology, has created a SYNthesized GENetic ORGganizsm - Syngenor. A "super soldier" The perfect killing machine. There's just one problem # a prototype creature has gotten loose and has begun a bloody killing spree. Paula Gorski (Riva Spier), a beautiful but undermining executive, decides to allow Syngenor to ree more terror. She sees this as an opportunity to let C.E.O. Carter Brown (David Gale) take the fall for the disaster. Meanwhile down in the basement of the building, a horde of newly spawned Syngenors has emerged. An ensuing battle rages against the creatures contained within the building.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A pretty good man-made monster film, March 25, 2003

By	Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Syngenor [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Syngenor was actually a much better film that I was expecting it to be. Syngenor, by the way, is short for Synthesized Genetic Organism. Norton Cyberdyne has designed the soldier of the future, a product of genetic engineering and plain old strong metal engineering, a creature designed specifically to fight in the deserts of the Middle East, a terrible force essentially indestructible. Unfortunately for all concerned, there is a power struggle taking place in the highest echelons of the company, and the plotters take the bold move of "accidentally" letting a Syngenor escape. When he kills the scientist who essentially created him (and quit before the prototype was really complete), the scientist's niece decides to seek justice on her own. The police won't investigate the murder, but she knows who and what is responsible. An annoying reporter looking for a good story joins forces with her, and their efforts lead us into the heart of Norton Cyberdyne. The president of the company, played by Davie Gale of Reanimator fame, is going quite insane under all the pressure. As things progress, more and more Syngenors are released to roam the building and basically just kill indiscriminately. These things are able to reproduce asexually ever twenty-four hours, so you've got Syngenors all over the place pretty quickly. There is a lot of action, as you can imagine, in the succeeding battles between man and Syngenor.

This movie is basically one of your better than average science fiction B-movies. It was great to see David Gale in action again, but his character actually becomes pretty annoying as his grip on reality quickly weakens. Gale goes well beyond the call of duty in terms of hamming it up. The acting is pretty good all the way around, though, and the Syngenor are pretty cool monsters who are much more than guys in rubber suits. It's always nice when the special effects guys take pride in what they do and give us a creature we can respect rather than laugh at. Naturally, you pretty much know how things are going to turn out, and you can figure out the Syngenor's vulnerability much more quickly than the desperate heroes who could really use that information do. The plot does sort of branch off into seemingly important directions that are never expounded upon or explained, but this is forgivable and offset to some degree by the fun mano-a-monster battle scenes. In the final analysis, Syngenor is a fairly impressive sci-fi B-movie that I found quite entertaining and fun to watch.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A fine B-movie, October 13, 2002

By	B-movie fan (Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Syngenor [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is fine b-movie. It has a real annoying women character and a journalist that wont take no for an answer. Reccomended to anyone who loves b-movies

3.0 out of 5 stars David Gale Unleashed, Unhinged, And Unstoppable..., April 29, 2008

By	Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein "bigfootsalienbaby" (under the rubble) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

SYNGENOR concerns an evil corporation called Norton Cyberdyne that is secretly building synthetic beings to be used as super-soldiers in the coming middle-eastern world war. Shockingly, said beings are released so they can roam around the Cyberdyne building, tearing hapless victims to pieces. This is all done as part of a plot to drive the corporate head Carter Brown (David Gale himself!) bananas. It works. Brown loses his mind entirely, which causes him to grimace, laugh demonically, and to continually ask people to hold him. Gale is all ham, but at least he's good USDA choice ham! He's also the best thing about the movie. As for the monsters themselves, while not a total disgrace, they aren't all that menacing either. The costumes aren't bad, just not very scary or unsettling. Now, there is a scene at the end where one SYNGENOR has a fairly cool meltdown. Anyway, I'd watch this one again as it has it's goofy charms going for it. For extra points, watch for Melanie "Daughter Of The Shat" Shatner as Carter Brown's niece! Enjoy...