Tuesday, December 22, 2009

PROJECT: METALBEAST (1995)

For a movie about an 7 foot tall metal-skinned werewolf bringin’ a ruckus…there sure is a lot of talking going on.  The film starts out well enough with some CIA dudes on a mission in Hungary to collect werewolf blood.  The first guy distracts the monster by placing his neck in the werewolf’s gaping mouth full of nasty, big, pointy teeth while the other CIA dude shoots the creature with silver bullets.  There’s no indication if he hits the wolfman in the nards or not, but I like to believe so.  Once back stateside, some scientists at a Top-Secret facility try to use the werewolf blood to make a super soldier.  Good news is they succeed!  Bad news is this mother woke up grumpy as fuck (Grrrrr.) and immediately starts killing the wookalar piss out of everybody.   It’s mildly entertaining in a low-budget, early 1990’s horror movie kind of way.

I could probably toss in some Barry Bostwick ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW jokes or make some lame quips about a "metal" werewolf who is really into metal music, but I'm not feeling it.  The movie is mildly interesting in an nostalgic way for older viewers and that's about it.  The "metalbeast" looks cool, but isn't on screen enough.  The rest of the characters are forgettable and boring.  The dialogue is nothing.  It just sounds like "burrr, buuurrrr, burrrrr..." after awhile.  Zero nudity, very little blood, zero gore, dumb ending, boring direction.  Watch it if you want, but don't blame me if you fall asleep.