JUST SAY NO to this pathetic ripoff of a movie. Regular readers of Balladeer’s Blog know that I can often love even the worst movies because of their bad movie charm so it takes something beyond mere cinematic ineptitude for me to recommend that viewers steer clear of a movie altogether.
DR STRAIN THE BODY SNATCHER – This revolting celluloid con job was made 1n 1989 but released on video in 1991. I’ll start off with the worst part of this movie and point out that IT HAS NO ENDING. The movie ends in the middle of a chase scene with the hero of the story being pursued by Dr Strain in the newest body he’s inhabiting.
I have no idea how this amateurish piece of garbage found a distributor in the first place given its clearly incomplete condition. I’m not being sarcastic by speculating that it’s possible nobody who rented or bought it even bothered watching it all the way to the end. The movie is THAT lame, boring and unoriginal.
Another flaw with the movie is that even though its run-time is technically just barely an hour it more likely was just a half-hour vanity production. In the 1980’s and 1990’s there were places – many in New Jersey – where you could send a few thousand dollars and your own script and they would “make your movie for you”. Dr Strain the Body Snatcher has the air of one of those kind of “McDonald’s Filmmaking” productions. The run-time is padded out by EXCRUCIATINGLY long opening and closing credits plus a prolonged dream sequence that replays many of the scenes from earlier in the film. THAT’S how this junk reached a one-hour running time.
Let me fill readers in on the plot, too, so that nobody has to be motivated to watch this even out of curiousity. The title Doctor cons a recent college grad into working with him on an attempt to transfer human consciousness from one body to another. His own body is becoming more and more hideous because of a fictional medical condition and it turns out his real plan is to transfer his mind into the young, healthy body of the college student.
As trial runs Dr Strain and the student have to experiment with “corpses” which are really the products of the cheapest and clumsiest makeup and special effects imaginable. The doctor tries and fails to get the student’s body, accidentally transferring his mind into one of the decaying corpses he keeps on hand. Strain wraps his gruesome new body in bandages like the Invisible Man, dons some clothes and traces our hero to the police department, where he’s been trying to convince the cops about what his creepy employer’s up to.
After a fight that spills out onto the street the student knocks down Dr Strain, then when he sees the mad doctor get back up he flees. Dr Strain gives chase and the closing credits roll. This thing is not even worth the time you would waste watching it for free. Garbage like this is what gave direct-to-video films the ugly reputation they still carry with them.
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