Someone really like the movie “ReAnimator” and decided that they could do the same thing basically. This movie has taught me a few things. Allow me to elaborate.
A group of high school kids are out on a double date. After a movie and pizza, they take a walk home. Unfortunately for them, they take a short cut that will ultimately lead to disaster. The kids are kidnapped by two freakish monsters and thrown in the back of a van. One of the boys happens to wake up, but decides to play along until he can escape. Where he is going, he has no clue, but it’s probably not good.
When the van finally reaches its destination the unconscious kids are put on gurneys and taken into a strange home. The home they are in happens to be a sort of make-shift hospital of sorts, only they operations they do here are slightly illegal. Dr. Devine is in the business of taking old peoples money and in exchange he swaps their brains into the bodies of young, attractive, not so willing donors. Dr. Devine has one problem however, the one teenager that didn’t get knocked out escapes. He gets to the police and is now actively and aggressively trying to free his friends.
There really is nothing remarkable about this movie either good or bad. There are however some remarkable things IN the movie that bear revealing and repeating. There is a female “freak” in the movie that you see maybe twice full face. I quipped that I thought she looked a bit like “Zap” from American Gladiators. Turns out, it really is her. Later in the film one of the nurses points directly to a call button on a desk alluding to the woman she is talking to that she needs to hit the button. Mere seconds and one camera cut later the button is in a different place. Continuity guy must have been out on lunch. Two VERY important things to know here; One, brain surgery is apparently pretty easy to do. You can be interrupted and take an exorbitant amount of time away from a patient literally with out a brain in their head. Two, apparently when you swap a brain from one body to another your vocal chords will make the transition as well. Weird.
As plain and boring as this movie is, it’s not really bad, per say. It really is just unremarkable. There aren’t any special effects to speak of, and no real blood or guts, aside from one scene involving a meat grinder. The script and the story are totally forgettable, more importantly you probably have seen it before. The ending is the usual stinger of the bad guys getting away, except one strange scene. Almost at the end the kid is yelling at the cop “You just don’t get it!” and then turns his rage on the audience. He looks directly into camera and says the same thing. Hey kid, you’re wrong. I get it. This movie is bland. Thanks.
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