I started to watch Superbeast a long time ago on Joe Bob
Briggs’ Monstervision, but fell asleep about halfway through on it. Ever since then, I’ve been waiting for an
opportunity to finish it. I got my
chance when Comet TV played it recently.
I shouldn’t have bothered. Twenty
years or more later, I still had trouble staying awake all the way through.
A drug smuggler goes ape and kills a bunch of people before
being gunned down by the cops. A
pathologist performs an autopsy on the body and learns he’s been experimented
on. She then goes off into the jungle to
find out what happened to him. Naturally,
she finds a mad scientist who experiments on criminals in his hidden laboratory. He’s not really mad though; he’s only trying
to rehabilitate them. Sometimes the
criminals regress and turn into primitive killers and go traipsing through the
jungle. This happens more often than you’d
think, which is why the scientist keeps a big game hunter on hand to hunt them
down just in case. Eventually, the
pathologist has seen enough and decides to give the doctor a taste of his own
medicine, which of course turns him into a monster.
So, basically what we’ve got here is Island of Dr. Moreau
meets The Most Dangerous Game. If you’ve
seen the other Made-in-the-Philippines Dr. Moreau remakes, Terror is a Man and
The Twilight People, then there really isn’t any reason to see this one. In fact, it’s even worse than those dogs if
you can believe it.
The only joy comes from seeing the Pilipino Marlon Brando, Vic
Diaz turning up as a cop. Sadly, he is
given very little to do. Even his
sporadic appearances may not be enough to keep you from nodding off.
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