Mindwarp (1991) User Reviews

The B-movie that warped my mind

[Al_The_Strange · 6/10 · 15 October 2013]

First time I saw Mindwarp on the TV, I kinda hated it. Mostly because I thought it was a cheap and gaudy film, made grotesque by the excess of blood and gore, with ideas that were interesting but never profound. Despite disliking the film, however, it stuck with me, partly because it did have scenes and ideas that were inherently interesting and worth watching, and mostly because this is actually one hard film to find on home video. I have never seen a DVD release for this film; it's currently only available on VHS, or, shockingly, as a limited-edition Twilight Time Blu-Ray. That brief showing on TV was my one and only exposure to this movie, up until I got my mitts on Blu-Ray #471 of 3,000.

To be fair, the movie makes for a fine piece of pulply schlock sci-fi, the likes of which could make for a great comic strip in the Heavy Metal magazine, or a short story in some anthology. As a film, it has some promise; the bulk of it takes place in a nightmarish post-apocalyptic wasteland, full of bloodthirsty cannibals, parasitic fish, and sick cults. This hard-edged adventure is book-ended by a really slick bit of utopic cyberpunk, for even though the world has been nuked, a number of inhabitants spend their time in a virtual dream-world. Sound familiar? It makes me wonder if Mindwarp could have been an influence on the Watchowskis when writing The Matrix saga...

The film is neat, and its story is inherently sound. What makes it work are its characters; it is interesting to watch the main heroine get a serious dose of reality when she's expelled from her utopic home and forced to confront the harsh realities of a nuclear wasteland. Things come in full circle by the end, thanks to a neat little plot twist, but the overall message never felt right to me (almost an antithesis to The Matrix, which was all about liberation). That's really the only problem I see with the plot: a certain lack of refinement, for despite the key themes of reality and fantasy, and the coming of age, the film seems really small in scale and it seems like some things could have been better.

The film is as I remember: gaudy and ugly. It's filmed with adequate photography and editing, but most of the settings, props, and locales appear cheap, drab, and somewhat ugly. Even the futuristic scenes in the utopic city are rather ugly-looking. Acting and writing are rather weak all around; Bruce Campbell is a pretty standard hero guy here. Despite a few iffy lines, I was rather fond of Marta Martin. Angus Scrimm steals the show throughout. Music for this film is rather gaudy too.

To me, this film has always been the pure definition of a B-movie: cheap, ugly, gory, strangely hard-to-find, and strangely somewhat hard to forget. For those who have an interest in such low-grade cinema, or are a fan of the actors, or just want a good piece of trashy pulp sci-fi, Mindwarp should be worth a look, if you can find it.

3/5 (Entertainment: Pretty Good | Story: Average | Film: Poor)

Are Cronenberg and the Wachowskis fans?

[BA_Harrison · 6/10 · 5 April 2019]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I believe that director Steve Barnett's low budget B-movie Mindwarp was an influence on Cronenberg's excellent eXistenZ AND the groundbreaking sci-fi action classic The Matrix. Of course, it's nowhere near as good as those films, but the similarities are hard to ignore.

Like eXistenZ and The Matrix, the main character, 'dreamer' Judy (Marta Martin), plugs into a virtual world which is impossible to distinguish from real life. Like eXistenZ and The Matrix, the body requires a 'port'-an interface with which to connect the human mind to the digital realm. And like The Matrix, the real world seems a lot less appealing than the computerised alternative, where you can live out your fantasies.

Unfortunately, Judy's electronic existence comes to an end when she is granted her wish to experience reality and is exiled to a post-apocalyptic world where cannibals roam the wastelands. It's not long before flesh-eating mutants have Judy trussed up ready for slaughter, but help comes in the form of passing good samaritan Stover (Bruce Campbell), who saves her from a grisly fate and takes her to his home. From this point the film becomes rather repetitive as Judy and Stover are captured by the cannibals and taken underground, where they escape, get captured, escape again, and get captured again.

There's a fair bit of gore to liven up proceedings, and horror icon Angus Scrimm turns up as the leader of the cannibals, who has created a form of religion to keep the mutants in hand, but it does get pretty tedious. The film rounds things off with a not-totally-unexpected twist ending.

5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for iMDb. Better than Alien Apocalypse, but not by much.

Likable overlooked Sci-Fi cheese

[alexfromhorn · 6/10 · 25 January 2012]

I never heard of that movie before. The fact that Bruce Campbell starred in it was also pretty shocking. And yes in fact it was a B-Movie. But I have to admit they used this low budget pretty well. The story is quite nice although the ending will probably confuse you. The main feeling is some kind of mixture between despair and being afraid, it's pretty brutal and heartless. The acting was good although the dialogs were a little too cheesy. Whoever made this flick had some nice ideas. And if you like post apocalyptic movies - this is one you shouldn't miss because it's really one of them better ones. Yeah just give it a try if you like cheesy B-Movie stuff like that.

If you can stand the gore, Mindwarp is fun sci-fi.

[Whovian · 18 November 1998]

I normally hate post-apocalyptic science fiction, but I'll make an exception for Mindwarp. Despite gratuitous gore and a cast with some weak members, the film manages to be entertaining. Good use is made of a low budget, and an intriguing (if ugly) world is created. If you're a science fiction fan, this movie should be at least a little more satisfying than most genre entries.

The name's Stover And I'm a post-apocalyptic slave

[Coventry · 5/10 · 27 November 2006]

Although not really having "enjoyed" Mindwarp, I must admit it's a fairly competent movie with a handful of disturbing images and a whole lot of blood-spurting gore. The popular genre magazine Fangoria raised the necessary funds for this film and they pretty much know what their target audiences adore as well as whom they like to see in horror films. So we've got a story with some really dark topics and two respectable icons starring in important supportive roles. I'm sure many horror fans would blindly pick up a copy of "Mindwarp" only because the names of Bruce Campbell ("the Evil Dead") and Angus Scrimm ("Phantasm") are displayed on the cover. Unfortunately, however, the script is weak and very incoherent and it too often feels like the outrageously nasty gore was only put in to compensate for the lack of content. Somewhere deep into the 21st century, our planet has become a completely uninhabitable wasteland and the remaining humans live in underground rooms where their days are filled with mind-controlling computer games that induce personal fantasies. Judy rebels against this dull way of life and she's promptly exiled to the dangerous upland, where she teams up with solo-warrior Strover (Bruce Campbell) and battles a community of mutated cannibalistic creatures. The opening sequences involving hi-tech computer mumbo-jumbo are boring, confusing and pretentious and the film only becomes somewhat interesting as soon as we're in the uncanny post-apocalyptic surface settings. The Crawler's liar is creepy and sinister, and their leader (Angus Scrimm) has some gruesome hobbies like gouging people's eyes out and throwing the rest of their bodies into propellers. Nice. One-time-actress Marta Alicia doesn't bring her lines very convincing, but she sure has an athletic body and at least she had some quality time with the almighty Bruce Campbell. Good for her! "Mindwarp" is okay entertainment, but if you're looking for really good post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi movies, check out the "Mad Max" trilogy, "Damnation Alley" or "Hardware".

Better than expected for a low budget scifi/horror flick

[johnv-3 · 7/10 · 14 November 1999]

Chaucer this ain't! Mindwarp is a low budget horror flick that makes no pretensions, and delivers no surprises. Starring the always reliable Bruce Campbell, and a very weak Marta Alicia, the movie is your basic post-apocalyptic romp with monsters, mutants, evil wizards, etc. Higher on the gore content than many of its compatriots, the movie also lacks the tongue in cheek humor that makes some of these flicks fun to watch (Sam Rami's Army of Darkness comes to mind).

The movie does elicit good performances from Bruce Campbell, who has made a successful career fighting heavily made up extra's in movies and Rami's Herc/Xena series. Campbell knows the score and delivers the deadpan hero mode needed to make these pictures bearable. Surprisingly good back up work by supporting actors Angus Scrimm and Elizabeth Kent, doing something with very little in the dialogue department, also add to the film. The one big problem is the female lead, Marta Alicia, who has obviously forgotten that she is no longer in Grade 10 drama, and delivers her lines in a one note (ie. - whiny) tone. Forgetting that her major role is to scream, look frightened, and lose most of her clothing at strategic intervals, Alicia instead appears to be trying to ACT, mainly by looking annoyed and whining a lot.

Overall, the flic ain't bad. The writing is better than expected, with several plot twists at the end and even a hint of an Electra complex (shades of Freud) along the way. The special effects aren't, and the budget was obviously stretched in the makeup department, as most of the 'mutants' look like trick or treaters wearing Holloween masks from Walmart.

I rented this at Blockbuster for 99 cents. That's about the right price.

Nice idea, poor execution, too low budget.

[deloudelouvain · 5/10 · 15 March 2020]

The story in Mindwarp is interesting but the budget for this movie was just too low. It's a pity because it had potential to be a good sci-fi post apocalyptic horror movie but now it's just a bit cringing to watch. Maybe one day they will remake this one with a decent budget and then we could have something. The costumes, masks and other attributes looked like they've been purchased in the cheapest costume shop, the acting is mediocre and that despise I like Bruce Campbell normally. It looks like he always plays in stuff where at one point somebody gets his hand chopped off. I wished I liked this movie more, but even for a distant 1992 movie it still looks too amateuristic.

mindwarp indeed...

[FieCrier · 6/10 · 16 December 2004]

For most of the movie, the pretty female lead (who has some rather admirable musculature in her arms) is exiled from her apparently post-apocalyptic underground lair where most time is spent in virtual reality, to the barren Earth's surface, mostly sand and snow. Mutated human beings try to capture her, but Bruce Campbell saves her. However, they both get captured and pulled under the Earth's surface where Campbell is put to work mining for pre- apocalyptic items like Cuisanart blenders, and she has more in store for her than that.

However, that's not where the movie starts or ends. It is bookended by some confusing scenes in the underground lair and in the virtual reality. It's unclear what's real and what's not, and I didn't understand the ending at all, I'm afraid.

For those looking for gore, there is some and it is pretty good, but I wouldn't say there's a lot of scenes with it.

OK sci-fi horror.

[poolandrews · 5/10 · 15 June 2006]

Mindwarp is set in the near future where most of the population lives underground & spend most of their time in a virtual reality simulator called 'Infinisynth' as Earth in reality is no more than a desolate wasteland (are you sure this is the future?). One such user Judy Apple (Marta Alicia) rebels & decides she wants out & experience the real world outside instead of a computer simulation. The Systems Operator detects her rebellious inclinations & to prevent any unrest he decides to give her what she wants & banishes her to the outside world. Once there she encounters a harsh landscape where she instantly runs into trouble as she is sucked underground by quicksand & is then rescued by mutated cannibals known as Crawlers. Luckily for Judy she is saved by Stover (Bruce Campbell) & he takes her in, unfortunately they are both captured by more Crawlers that night & taken into their underground caves in which they live. Stover is put to work & Judy has an unexpected meeting with someone from her past, they must find a way to escape. But even if they do where do they escape to...

Directed by Steve Barnett I thought Mindwarp was an OK sci-fi horror mish-mash. The script by John D. Brancato & Michael Ferris starts off as a straight laced sci-fi taking place in a post apocalyptic world but then shifts into horror territory, the film takes itself pretty seriously & after a slightly slow start has a fairly decent pace. My biggest problem is that everything is decidedly average, the character's, the dialogue, the 'twist' ending, the set-pieces & the basic story are both undistinguished & left me feeling indifferent. Most of the film seems to take place in caves & the future civilisation is represented by one white room & a cup of green drink & their state-of-the-art technology looks dated even now! Check out that chunky green text on the monitors that a Spectrum ZX would be embarrassed about. There are a few decent scenes & it's OK to sit down with & pass 90 odds minutes but it's nothing special or outstanding in my opinion.

Director Barnett does OK with obviously limited sets, the cave scenes which make up the majority of the film look like they were all filmed on the same set but from different angles. There is one good aspect to Mindwarp though as there is some pretty good gore scenes, there's slashed throats, machete's in heads, severed hands & arms, impalings, people chopped up by a huge propeller, a bit of cannibalism, mutants & scenes of some blood sucking leeches that burrow under people's skin.

Technically Mindwarp is OK, the sets are limited but it's obvious that the filmmakers were working on a low budget. Apparently filmed in a place in Michigan called Gay, insert your own joke here. Horror icons Campbell & Angus Scrimm make appearances, Campbell is somewhat wasted in my opinion & isn't given much to do.

Mindwarp was produced by the horror magazine Fangoria along with Children of the Night (1992) & Severed Ties (1992), I suspect that's why there's a fair amount of gore & why Campbell & Scrimm are in it. It's worth a watch if you have the time to spare but don't expect anything brilliant, not too bad but not that good either.

Surprisingly entertaining and well-made

[IMDbKeepsDeletingMyReviews · 7/10 · 13 July 2021]

Look, I know it's low budget. But that's never an excuse. Mindwarp has what other, much more expensive movies don't have: atmosphere and some images you won't forget.

Add in The Bruce, and you got something that you just have to like - if you're a genre film fan at all, that is.

There are portions of this film that could have been taken from an "Evil Dead IV", and I'm sure that someone with a lot of time and some serious skills could actually turn this film into that.

Sure, the music is corny, the production design looks cheap at times, but I didn't really care. I want to see someone making a film like this today, and then we can talk.

All in all, this is a very enjoyable little gem, and if you have the opportunity to see it (as it seems to be kinda hard to find), you should take it.

Mindwarp

[Scarecrow-88 · 5/10 · 4 December 2007]

In a post-apocalyptic future, an "Inworlder", Judy(Marta Alicia)resists the Infinisynth way of life, wishing to experience reality instead of the paradise of pure fantasy(why?)where the world can be created at her choosing. There are few lucky enough to be an Inworlder and Judy wishes to go above ground and see the real world. Her mother embraces Infinisynth and has practically abandoned Judy for the fantasy world she's hooked into to. Judy wishing to communicate with her mother, is able to enter her fantasy causing a system malfunction. This system error kills Judy's mom, and she finally is allowed by the Systems Operator(the person/godhead over maintaining the Infinisynth program with an overhead helmet and these peculiar wires which stem from it emitting blue light)to have her wish. These mysterious police drug her with a hypodermic and Judy awakens on the cold, barren surface. Almost sinking in a quicksand death-trap, Judy is rescued by "Crawlers", mutated cannibals who scavenge the surface at the command of a leader from underground. She is to be taken somewhere, but Stover(Bruce Campbell), a regular human whose ancestry have since perished as the surface is an unforgiving place often causing "brain disease", nasty facial sores, and death, saves her by vanquishing them with his crossbow and sword. They fall in love but are soon kidnapped by mutants and carried into a "Crawler's hole" which tunnels straight into an underground hellhole of darkness, garbage, and junk-metal.

Underground, led by a homicidal, psychopathic intellectual named Seer(Angus Scrimm)who was once an Inworlder has the cannibal mutants under his command, adapting a religion and totalitarian environment where his voice is one of power and dread. The Crawlers are hideous with no language, just grunting...they are mostly used as workers trying to find anything of value from civilization of long ago(such as the motor of a blender)and when no longer of use(such as one mutant whose hand is chopped off in an accident)are put away. Cornelia(Elizabeth Kent)is Seer's sore-spotted maiden(the marks on her face do not remove her slight beauty, though), with a nasty attitude, who has a slave named Claude(Wendy Sandow), a timid mute who has been rendered quite fragile and weak by this underground world that would remove the strength of many a normal person. Judy will try to coerce Claude into helping free her from the bondage of leather arm straps, while Stover, put to work with the mutants, has removed the blade from a bender hatching a plan of escape. A cruel bit of irony is that Seer might be someone Judy has been looking for..his plans to pro-create with Judy add a grotesque spin to this already blood-drenched gore-fest. What one must never forget is the Infinisynth machine and the world Judy was "released from." Even though it seems the film is about escaping this society of monsters led by a pure human madman, the Inworld way of life doesn't completely fade from the plot.

If you like the Mad Max films, this might be up your alley. Bruce makes a great hero, even though he finds himself always at odds against many more men often besieging him before he can save the woman he loves. The underground hellhole and Scrimm as the mutants' Messiah add an extra bit of "fun" to this B-movie gore-fest. There's one scene where Scrimm's Seer removes the eyeball of a victim before throwing her into a chopping machine that drenches blood from the one being cut to ribbons for a ceremonial drinking(..no, I'm not kidding). Bruce gets a chance to slice throats, penetrate blades through mutant scum, even sword-fight with Angus. Scrimm displays his menace with a guilty-free calm..he's flat-out bonkers, but carries himself like a quiet gentleman which makes him even more the creep than the typical over-the-top lunatic that often portrays these kind of characters. Marta Alicia is okay, I guess, but she's damned sexy so she's granted a reprieve if her character of Judy fails to truly grab you. I say see this if you liked the recent sequel to Alexander Aja's remake of "Hills Have Eyes"..both resemble a lot. I don't think it's all that memorable despite carrying two horror icons. The most unpleasant sequence, other than Scrimm's chopping machine, is when these leech-like sea-slugs enter Campbell's body, crawling underneath his flesh towards the back of his neck(how they are released is also a nasty bit of business, I must say).

Good-ole post-apocalyptic fun

[Enok-2 · 10/10 · 11 January 2000]

I've been watching nothing but apocalyptic movies for about a month now, and this is definitely one of my favorites. It is a little gory, mainly to show the depravity of the mutants, but not overly so. Possibly Angus Scrimm's finest acting. Good Atmosphere. Give it a try.

Strange, gory, and OK

[steveassault · 7/10 · 28 September 2019]

A weird Fangoria-movie w horror icons Scrimm and Campbell. Scrimm is miscast but OK. Campbell is great. The story is pure nonsense. There are a lot of rubbery monster FX on hand which resemble members of GWAR. This is pretty gory and will satisfy gore-hounds. The plot is totally ludicrous and sports a totally out of place happy ending which is totally out of place the the rest of the dark and gruesome film but who cares? This is an underrated gem for trash horror enthusiasts. Totally worthy of checking out and wasting an hour and a half of your life.

Bruce Campbell fans beware!

[gridoon · 3/10 · 30 December 2002]

The prospect of seeing Bruce Campbell doing battle with cannibalistic mutants in a future underworld may sound fun. Well - despite a generous offering of gore - it isn't. This is a terrible movie, not to mention too ambitious for its budget. At least halfway though you'll get a chance to admire the heroine's impressive physique (it's the scene where she gets tied up) - be sure not to miss it, because you are certainly not going to admire her inept acting anytime. (*1/2)

Everything a Horror Movie should be and more!

[SammiiGirl1 · 27 July 2002]

I Just finished watching an imported DVD from Germany of this film with the title of Brainslasher, and i tell you what..... it is one of if not the best horror movies i have ever watched.

It has everything, Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, blood, loads and loads of well done gore, a decent story, and for once a movie that dosen't slow down you never know what is comming next.

Anyway this is great, check it out you will not be dissapointed. i'm off to watch it again.

The future as seen in 1992.

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 23 June 2019]

In the post-apocalyptic world of 2037, the world relies on computer fantasies to entertain themselves. A glitch sends our heroine, Judy, to a far-off wasteland to battle monsters called Crawlers. A young rebel named Stover(Bruce Campbell) saves her, but the pair are later captured and brought underground by the Crawlers to face the Seer(Angus Scrimm), who rules this future world.

Mindwarp is one of only three films that were produced by Fangoria Films. Started in 1990 with the goal of financing one feature film a year, they followed this film up with 1991's Children of the Night and Severed Ties in 1992.

The apocalypse that this film presents is one of where the ozone layer has been destroyed, leaving the world covered with radioactive death zones. There, outworlders are the non-mutants and the crawlers are, well, pretty much C.H.U.D.s. Then there are dreamers, who live in the sealed Inworld, who spend their days plugged into the Infinisynth computer, living out their virtual reality fantasies.

That's where we meet Judy, a dreamer who lives with her mother. She wants a real adventure, which starts when she accidentally kills her parent during a simulation, which gets her exiled to Outworld. She's saved by Stover and faces the machinations of the Seer and his consort Cornelia, who tries to infect her with a parasite. That fails, leading to a ritual where the Seer smashes Cornelia's daughter Claude in a meat grinder.

Stover spends most of the movie saving Judy and then getting recaptured. He gets attacked by leeches while the Seer lets Judy know that he's the father she's been missing all of these years. Now, he wants to use her to breed the next generation of humans who will lead the Crawlers. She escapes and saves Stover, but if you've been paying attention, he just gets captured again.

This leads to another ceremony with the meatgrinder, leading Judy to shove her dad inside it while Stover goes mad from leech infection and begs her to stay behind before vomiting leeches all over her. That's just a fakeout ending, as Judy has never left the cyberworld and her real father - the Infinisynth System Operator - tells her that he wants to give her his position of power.

That's another fakeout, as Judy wakes up back in her room with her mother, still alive. Oh 1990's wannabe cyberpunk straight to video movies! At least one good thing came out of this - Bruce Campbell met his wife, costume designer Ida Gearon, on the set.

Mindwarp was written by the team of John Brancato and Michael Ferris, two former Harvard Lampoon editors who went on to write Watchers II, The Unborn, The Net, The Game, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation and Catwoman, amongst others. Since ending their partnership in 2015, Ferris has written two episodes of The Simpsons. I guess having David Fincher as your director is the difference between The Game and every other film on their IMDB resumes.

There's some gore, Angus Scrimm looking young in a safari shirt and Bruce Campbell getting beat up a lot while everyone runs around in a salt mine and screams one another's first name a lot.

Not the Standard B Movie Fare

[mstomaso · 7/10 · 13 February 2011]

Mindwarp is a relatively early effort by Steve Barnett (Director) and Henry Dominic (writer). Barnett is chiefly known for post-production work, which, surprisingly, is not a major feature of Mindwarp. His few directorial efforts have been limited to fairly dubious material like Scanner Cop II. Dominic has done some more high-profile writing in recent years, including Terminator III. Given this team's background in sci-fi, and the timing of the film (1992), it should not be surprising that Mindwarp blends plot-heavy cyberpunk, horror, and hardcore sci-fi. What is, perhaps, surprising, is how well it does so with an obviously low budget.

Several years before the Matrix began shooting, Mindwarp presented the story of Judy, a smart, precocious but sheltered young 'in-worlder' who wants to experience real life, rather than simply plugging into the seemingly utopian synthetic fantasy world she can access through a serial port in the back of her neck. She just has the feeling that there must be something more to life. Of course, she has no idea what might await in the "deadlands". Most of the film follows her adventures in captivity among subterranean cult of mutant land-fill denizens and the struggle she shares with hero Bruce Campbell as they try to free themselves from the evil grip of the cult leader, Scrimm. Despite the straightforward action, however, Mindwarp is anything but a straightforward story.

With a cast featuring B Movie legends Bruce Campbell and Angus Scrimm (Phantasm)you might expect Mindwarp to be an archetypal B film. Not only does Mindwarp exceed the B film standard but it also manages to entertain on more levels than most of Bruce Campbell's films do - no mean feat. Unlike many films in which he appears, Campbell does not dominate the screen throughout the film and does not have many opportunities to utter any of his hallmark clichés. Instead, we have Marta Martin (AKA Marta Alicia) in her second major role. Martin plays the immature yet very headstrong Judy very well, and would subsequently land many returning roles on popular TV shows. Their nemesis, Angus Scrimm, as of 2010, is 84 years old and still acting. He plays essentially the same role he has had countless times - a big, menacing, old, creep. Only a few other actors have speaking roles in this fairly intelligent mutant gruntfest.

Recommended for Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk fans.

Putrid unwatchable quagmire

[gregvw · 1/10 · 24 August 1999]

Not even the very likeable actor Bruce Campbell can save this horrifyingly crappy movie. The premise: A girl gets bored living a fake reality inside a computer and gets cast out from the innerworld. The surface is populated by cheap rubber mutant cannibals who moan a lot and wear hubcaps.

Don't watch this unless you really hate yourself.

Go Bruce, Go...

[cheeftanz · 6/10 · 12 January 2011]

Well, it was almost three AM and then I saw Bruce on the telly - need I say more?... then there were dozens of gooey skulls all around the place... and a pretty girl... and it was late and then ghouls or zombies or mutants or something and so of course I had to watch. This is a bad movie, make no mistake - but if you are a Bruce fan and like his other work and Army of Darkness it is good for a late night bowl of popcorn that would be for certain. The set design and costumes are really interesting... everything from old football helmets to eyes sewn in capes and a fresh blood water fountain (that would be blood drinking fountain I guess)... expect light gore and no more and have a colder... I would have to recommend this for fans of the genre!

Fairly dull

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 22 January 2019]

MINDWARP is a cheap and largely dullish sci-fi/horror B-movie from 1992, starring the one and only Bruce Campbell. He's as entertaining as ever, but he doesn't get a whole lot of screen time here as the female protagonist bears the brunt of the acting required. After a rather dull bookend about a MATRIX-style VR world, we're introduced into a long-winded story about post-apocalyptic survivors battling cannibal mutants. It's not bad at times, but once the characters end up in Angus Scrimm's underground lair it really slows down and never picks up again. Scrimm overacts horribly and despite copious amounts of gore there's not much of interest here.

Really cool movie

[n_gutte2 · 6/10 · 21 August 2005]

This is a great horror movie with a little action. I enjoy to watch it. There was so many disgusting things, like blood and some ugly bugs coming out off guy's mouth. This movie is about girl named Judy who was living in small room with her mother. And all other normal people were living the same. Outsaid there was happening horrible things and because of that all people lived in virtual reality. The main bad guys were zombies drinking blood and looking horrible. This movie is real cool. Marta Alicia was good actress and I would like to know more about her. All other actors were also good. I also liked the idea of this movie. It's really better than nowadays horror movies. If you want to see really scary film, you should watch it.

Yoopers delight

[TaTa4Now · 3/10 · 24 July 2022]

Ha, Gay, MI. I wonder if they hung out at the Gay Bar? Things get pretty boring in the early spring/late winter in the middle of nowhere, but there is always plenty of booze and stupidity; ewhich gave us this fine pice of Yooper cinema.

This, is my FART STICK!

[donttouchmeprimate · 10/10 · 17 September 2019]

OK, Barely Evil Dead references aside and my clearly fandom of Bruce Campbell causing me to give most of his films a 10. This is still a REALLY good movie, if you view this from the eyes of 1992 or modern 2019 - I still think it does what it intends to do. We get gore, creepy and disturbing human-mutants and an interesting story (even if by today's standards it would be considered cliche)

There were a few things I thought could have been done better to add to its "scary" side, like a better score and lighting that suited the mood, but that's me in 2019 having seen a lot of other movies.

Now let's get to what EVERYONE whow see''s list post 1999, it's basically the matrix meets mad max meets Apple (yes APPLE). There's also a bunch of things thrown in here to reference Bruce''s evil dead success, which was fun to see him go along with.

As for the film as a while, it seems very self aware, I think it does a great job of making fun of itself as well as giving some absolute hard-to watch gore and tension.

All in all, I loved it.

Now excuse me as I need to pee in the garden as there is a HUGE spider on my stairs that I don't want to pass when going to the toilet.

Is this another Legend?

[lastliberal · 6/10 · 9 December 2007]

We are going to be presented with Will Smith's I am Legend this week, and I hear it is about the last man on Earth except for vampires or zombies. It is supposedly the third film from a book written in the 50's.

This is a story about a possible last man on Earth (Bruce Campbell) except for cannibals that live underground. Of course, there are others who live in a dreamworld, but they don't count.

Campbell does his usual good job here when Marta Alicia decides to return to reality. What happened to her? This was her only movie. I want to see more! They both end up underground as captives and that is where the gore begins. It really gets yucky down there. Can't say anymore without spoiling it.

Weird

[HeroCritic · 2/10 · 2 October 2014]

Although not very sophisticated, this movie was supposed to be quite interesting. Some idiot in a forum mentioned it, otherwise i wouldn't know about it. I saw it in 2014, which means 22 years after it was made. Why would i want to see a 1992 movie in 2014? Well, i thought it was going to be some type of futuristic dystopia film. I thought i would check out what a 1992's take of such a future would be.

In the beginning of the film i thought i was going to watch an interesting approach to a futuristic film. But almost immediately, the film turned into a weirdo cheap-horror type b-grade movie, with very stupid moments, incredibly ridiculous costumes and a scenario that really disappointed me.

Overall a disappointment. I would not waste time on this if i was you, do something more productive, like scratching your back with a plastic hand or something.