{"id":12255,"date":"2006-11-20T10:19:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=12255"},"modified":"2006-11-20T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T15:19:37","slug":"future-kill-1985-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/20\/future-kill-1985-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Future-Kill (1985) (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"514bYHgDDAL\"<\/a>\u201cFuture-Kill\u201d is an immensely dated and standard science fiction punk flick from the era of leather jackets and Mohawks. In some unsure futuristic world, a gang of mutants and gladiators in the vein of \u201cMad Max\u201d meets \u201cThe Warriors\u201d are battling among one another, and the tensions are obviously high. You can see that by the opening where the leader confronts the loose cannon Splatter, a violent individual who hides behind body armor and is basically an intimidating presence. Moore then introduces a comedic element for some reason with a group of frat boys curiously detracting from the future element, that have to pledge a fraternity. Moore\u2019s film has not held well over time.<\/p>\n

The music is ancient even for an eighties film, and for a quarter of the film we\u2019re basically given \u201cAnimal House\u201d as a group of pledges are played pranks on, take part in physical gags, and the obligatory sex scene or two; all of which are obvious padding, but still rather attention grabbing. When we finally get to the actual story, the frat boys are blamed for the murder of the gang leader Eddie Pain, and now have to make it back to their world alive. Now the boys of The Delta House are in the world of \u201cThe Warriors.\u201d And you thought it wouldn\u2019t come together. Moore\u2019s film becomes much more cohesive as a poor man\u2019s \u201cThe Warriors\u201d as these elite fray boys are thrown into a homicidal world of nuclear mutants and are trying to get home without being killed. The comedy is then drawn away for a surprisingly tense and entertaining bit of action. The villain Splatter is so over the top, he\u2019s hard to take seriously, but that\u2019s the fun of it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a quasi-Vader, a man in a mechanical outfit who has killed so much he\u2019s lost sight of his humanity, speaks in a very deep voice, and betrays the one person who knows how human he can be. One hilarious scene involves him killing his friend Star after she attempts to give him oral pleasure and sees what he really has under his codpiece. Edwin Neal\u2019s performance is cartoonish, but it\u2019s also oddly interesting. The designs behind the mutants become an interesting after taste. As a trashy eighties thriller, it\u2019s a fun guilty pleasure, with some entertaining dialogue, and engaging characters. I went into this expecting nothing, and that\u2019s probably why I received so much from it. You can\u2019t expect a masterpiece from a film that has a musical number, and mutants without actual mutations. Hell, I had fun. I enjoyed this for all the wrong reasons, but when in the context, all the wrong reasons are basically the right reasons. Moore\u2019s \u201cFuture-Kill\u201d isn\u2019t one that\u2019s aged well, but as a passing good time, you\u2019ll find great camp value from it. Whether from the \u201cAnimal House\u201d sub-plot, or the \u201cMad Max\u201d backdrop, it\u2019s still a very entertaining film in spite of and probably because of its age.<\/p>\n

Subversive Cinema is an unusual distributor, not because of the status they\u2019ve built, but because of the fact that they\u2019ve chosen to distribute some of the most unusual, and obscure films ever made. I\u2019m a hardcore film buff, and I\u2019ve never heard of \u201cFuture Kill\u201d or \u201cDust Devil,\u201d nor have I ever seen them on television, or mentioned by any of the more trendy critics. All the more reason to want to check them out, wouldn\u2019t you say? We\u2019re at a time where movie theaters and video stores are distributing truly awful films that have zero replay value, so it\u2019s time for more and more companies to dig up obscure films for the general audience to enjoy, or endure. Featured on the DVD are trailers for Subversive Cinema releases, Edwin Neil who plays Splatter discusses “Future-Kill” and how little they received in credibility and profits, not to mention he admits that much of the movie is indeed padding, and how the film went from being titled “Splatter” to “Future-Kill,” and an Easter egg featuring an interview with Bill Johnson, one of Splatter’s elite guards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cFuture-Kill\u201d is an immensely dated and standard science fiction punk flick from the era of leather jackets and Mohawks. In some unsure futuristic world, a gang of mutants and gladiators in the vein of \u201cMad Max\u201d meets \u201cThe Warriors\u201d are battling among one another, and the tensions are obviously high. You can see that by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,338,384,701,906,1087],"class_list":["post-12255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-f","tag-future","tag-mutants","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}