Mr. Lobo's latest Cinema Insomnia Blu-ray release is a fantastic Cyberpunk Special.
The "speculative" event highlights writer/director Damian (Food of the Gods II) Lee's Canadian-based Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe, starring Jesse "The Body" Ventura as its alien protagonist and Sven-Ole Thorsen (Ventura's Running Man costar) as his ex-partner, turned dry-humored antagonist.
The story flips Terminator upside down (if only by a hair), with Thorsen impregnating a woman, played by Marjorie (Red Heat) Bransfield, in hopes the offspring will ultimately help his dad defile Earth and beyond. In valiant response, Ventura's Abraxas must harness the "misunderstood" situation: i.e. save the day and all humankind with it. (Writer/director Lee is also featured as Dar, as well as Bransfield's then-spouse, Jim Belushi, as the overanalyzing Rick Latimer, seen previously in Christopher Cain's The Principal.)
The movie's bullied hybrid, Tommy, rendered with mute nuance by Francis Mitchell, proves a handful, in that he does, indeed, nurture inimitable powers (i.e., "the anti-life equation"), but at least Abraxas administers enough paternal know-how to corral the boy's potential for harm, though not before wrestling several harrowing variables.
The Rick Deckard-garbed Mr. Lobo inserts a Philip K. Dick-meets-William Gibson backdrop to the production, featuring faux, futuristic machinery and time-travel doubletalk, intertwined with techy trailers, Xmas trimmings and more than enough cynical folly to brighten the dystopic landscape.
Accompanying the merry menace are special guests Dixie Dellamorto, as Babs from the Front Desk; Sally the Zombie Cheerleader; Miss Mittens; horror-host icon, John Stanley; Movie Dumpster's Joe La Scola; Hack the Movies' Tony; and the versatile Jessie Seeherman, who makes quite a ravishing Rachael replicant for this episode's in-the-works, Turkish Blade Runner!
Order this edgy yet enjoyable Cinema Insomnia, cyberpunk submission at
https://cinemainsomnia.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment