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Mutant Hunt (1987)

Directed by Tim Kincaid

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by zombiefreak, sleestakk, noahphex, jenerator, seanCduregger

Overview

In New York City sometime in the near future, Z, the evil chairman of the Inteltrax Corporation, has taken a small army of cyborgs designed to perform hazardous tasks and altered them to kill humans for pleasure. The inventor of the cyborgs, Dr. Paul Haynes, is held captive, and his sister Darla seeks the aid of Matt Riker, an expert in high-tech weaponry and martial arts.

Length 76 minutes

Actors

Rick Gianasi | Mary Fahey | Ron Reynaldi | Taunie Vrenon | Bill Peterson | Mark Umile | Stormy Spill | Doug Devos | LeeAnne Baker | Adriane Lee | J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

I watched Mutant Hunt as the second half of a sci-fi “West coast vs. East coast” double feature (see my entry for Condor for the other half), and it was a perfect double bill, as it highlights the huge difference between LA and NYC filmmaking at the time, especially in the world of low-budget sci-fi.

Whereas Condor was a made-for-TV movie, Mutant Hunt was a direct-to-video effort from prolific director Tim Kincaid who appears to have rebooted his career in 2001 under the name Joe Gage as a director of gay porn.

Mutant Hunt is everything Condor isn’t: dark, post-apocalytic, gritty, sexual and gory. What it does share is cheesy effects (the typical laser weapon battles) and not-so-good acting. The creature effects are pretty damn cool though.

The story is revolves around some androids that are infected, thereby becoming mutated android “psychosexual” killers.

Filmed in NYC, it has the gritty feeling of New York, shot mostly at night and mostly in shitty locations.

It was pretty amazing to see the differences between two low budget sci-fi movies released a year apart in the mid-eighties; the contrast between the two is amazing. While I can’t really recommend anyone bother with Condor, I think Mutant Hunt is a fun B-movie watch.

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