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Saturday, 9 May 2015

Mindwarp (1992)

aka Brain Slasher

I think the reason there’s a sliver of Ash in most of Bruce Campbell's characters is because there’s a lot of Bruce in Ash. He accentuates certain traits, of course, but they spring from something real. Furthermore, if he's one of the main stars of a film there’s a good chance he’ll be facing off against some kind of evil creature. Mindwarp is no different.
It goes for a 70s style version of the 21st century, which is something I really like; the poor-man’s pre-Matrix VGA port in the back of the neck was hilarious. The synthetic world that the female protagonist (Marta Martin) wants to escape is kind of similar, too, but the remainder of the film isn't. Much of it is set underground where the lighting is bad, but it helps hide budget limitations and makes sense because it's where the aforementioned evil lives.

3 skullfulls of blood out of 5

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