This film was featured on the cult television show, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and that is how I came across it. A perfectly bland film that combines some horror elements and science fiction elements with a police crime drama. It was a somewhat interesting concept, but they seemed to focus a bit too much on the crime drama portion of the film, rather than the more interesting aspects of it. Too much time spent having to watch two characters chatting in a car and not enough time watching the Indestructible Man doing his thing. I mean, you get a very short shot of the dude going after someone to kill and then you have to watch the detective make a move on this dancer and offer to get her a hamburger and this plays on for a long time. Back to the Indestructible Man and he's closing in on someone, but enough of that, lets show the viewer the police trying to get a guy to confess. He could have been a victim of the Indestructible Man, and made the body count go higher, but best to show us another awesome talking scene!
The story has a man dubbed the Butcher about to be executed. He is apparently taking the fall for some sort of robbery that three other individuals were involved in. I hope the fact the guy is called the Butcher means he killed someone, otherwise, he is being sent to the chair for stealing money. That is kind of harsh! I am sure he did kill someone though because why else would he be called the Butcher. That is unless he was a butcher...Anyways, he swears revenge on the three men that turned against him so they could get a larger portion of money that was stolen. Unfortunately, no one knows where that money is at the moment and the Butcher is executed leaving the only man to sort of know dead. Well, out of all the people in the city, a doctor performing experiments gets the Butcher's body, performs some experiments on it and now the Butcher is back and he is indestructible! Not really, it only increased his strength and made his body resistant to bullets and such.
This one made for an okay episode of the show, but not the best. The jokes when they were having to sit through the chatty car scenes were funny, but it was not a strong episode throughout. Joel episodes are always so hit and miss. Not that a lot of them are bad, just so many of them are just okay and that is the case with this episode too. So, we get a film that had an interesting concept in it that kind of played out in a more boring fashion than it should have and we also just have an okay episode of MST3K. Too much padding in this one for a film this short, they could have easily stretched it out using more chase scenes and more kills, but instead, they rather show us the detective making creepy advances towards the dancer.
The story has a man dubbed the Butcher about to be executed. He is apparently taking the fall for some sort of robbery that three other individuals were involved in. I hope the fact the guy is called the Butcher means he killed someone, otherwise, he is being sent to the chair for stealing money. That is kind of harsh! I am sure he did kill someone though because why else would he be called the Butcher. That is unless he was a butcher...Anyways, he swears revenge on the three men that turned against him so they could get a larger portion of money that was stolen. Unfortunately, no one knows where that money is at the moment and the Butcher is executed leaving the only man to sort of know dead. Well, out of all the people in the city, a doctor performing experiments gets the Butcher's body, performs some experiments on it and now the Butcher is back and he is indestructible! Not really, it only increased his strength and made his body resistant to bullets and such.
This one made for an okay episode of the show, but not the best. The jokes when they were having to sit through the chatty car scenes were funny, but it was not a strong episode throughout. Joel episodes are always so hit and miss. Not that a lot of them are bad, just so many of them are just okay and that is the case with this episode too. So, we get a film that had an interesting concept in it that kind of played out in a more boring fashion than it should have and we also just have an okay episode of MST3K. Too much padding in this one for a film this short, they could have easily stretched it out using more chase scenes and more kills, but instead, they rather show us the detective making creepy advances towards the dancer.