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Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

groovybruceman I thought this was a very well done movie. IT is very trippy. The acting from the supporting characters were eh, but the acting chops of both Bruce Campbell and Angus Scrimm were awesome. The movie takes place in I think they called it INworld where the rich and fortunate live and the outworld I guess? Any way the desert is very mad maxish.Who wouldn't like a WTF movie every once in a while, the ending especially is weird. You never know when the lead character is dreaming or what is real. The makeup is very good and the story is not that bad for Fangoria Magazine's first try. It is a very fun movie to watch, Bruce Campbell is excellent.

mstomaso 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.

Scarecrow-88 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).

SmokingDemon1 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.