{"id":10651,"date":"2015-11-03T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10651"},"modified":"2015-11-01T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T20:03:00","slug":"mindwarp-1992-steve-barnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10651","title":{"rendered":"Mindwarp (1992, Steve Barnett)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebellious young Judy (Marta Alicia of Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure<\/em>) is rebelling against Infinisynth, the mind-control company that provides her family with virtual-reality escapism via a data port in the back of their necks. She’s chastised by the Systems Operator for invading her mom’s dreams and soon expelled into the wastelands outside their cushy VR-fueled apartment building, where she’s discovered and protected by post-apocalyptic survivalist Bruce Campbell and threatened by a cult of underground mutants led by Angus Scrimm.<\/p>\n

Angus displays his ID card:<\/em>
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Bruce displays a possum:<\/em>
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So it’s Ash<\/a> vs. The Tall Man<\/a> in a post-apocalyptic virtual-reality sci-fi\/horror… in HD. But it’s poorly made, dingy looking and dull, all those promising ideas and cast members wasted on a movie that doesn’t quite work. At least it continues to get weirder, Angus having his mutants comb through the ruins of civilization for useful junk, occasionally sacrificing a mutant via his person-juicing-machine. He reveals that he’s Judy’s father and<\/strong> reveals his plan to repopulate the earth with her in the same scene<\/em>. Bruce proves an ineffective protector, is fed to pirahnas. Then Angus says it was all a test, that he’s the SysOp of the VR universe and he wants his daughter to take over. Then that<\/em> was all a dream – then that<\/em> was all a dream. The Matrix<\/em> and Existenz<\/em> would use similar ideas with improved cinematography.<\/p>\n

Judy’s mutant army:<\/em>
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Sleep pods from Je t’aime, je t’aime<\/a>:<\/em>
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SysOp Guy Fieri:<\/em>
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Produced by the short-lived Fangoria Films, who at least attracted good casts, with Oliver Reed and Karen Black in their other early-90’s movies. From the director of Scanner Cop II<\/em> and Hollywood Boulevard II<\/em> (no way), written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris (Terminator<\/em> 3 and 4, The Net<\/em>). At least something good came out of this movie – Bruce Campbell married the costume designer. Also, it appears to have invented the roomba.<\/p>\n

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