Psyclops
Video geek Shepard 'Shep' Franco (Dan Merriman) uncovers a 135 year old videotape on which mad scientist Artemis Winthrop (Phip Barbour) displays a machine he's invented, which he believes can bridge dimensions. With his buddies Kim (Irene Joseph), Dave (Rob Monkiewicz), and Heather (Diane Di Gregorio), Shep tracks down the machine despite warings of Winthrop's great-granddaughter, a wiccan named Amelia (Liz Hurley). Shep restores the machine and while video taping it in action, a horrible accident transforms him into the ultimate tapehead (while unleashing killer bugs from another dimension and a few walking corpses along the way). Shep kidnaps Heather to turn her into his monster bride and only the intervention of the mysterious Amelia can halt the madness
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Sorry, this movie sucks
So much average
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
While I enjoyed this B movie greatly, there is no way that it was not influenced by the great New England master of supernatural lore, HP Lovecraft. After all, filmed by citizens of New Hampshire and Vermont, no doubt fairly well-versed in the work of Lovecraft, as is nearly every supernatural and horror B movie scriptwriter. And the similarities with From Beyond are obvious, yet with a lighter touch that makes this venture stand well on its own. Nice animated model insects similar to what would be done in a Band/Full Moon Production, as is the brief glimpse of the "other world". How many here will understand the reference to the "videodisc" being recorded by the old-time inventor of the "other world" viewscope gadget? If not, check out CEDMAGIC.COM and learn about the last great step in non-laser grooved media formats, thanks to RCA.
This movie sucks. Period.I cannot begin to describe it in words. My friends and I rented it for a laugh, based on the cover and summary we new it would suck. And it did. First, the acting is downright hideous. The main character is horribly cheesy. He is such a geek stereotype. His friend David, is an odd character. He is buff, looks like superman, and wears glasses. However, he is likely to be the smartest character of the movie. The main character's black friend overacts incredibly. She uses her eyebrows to talk for her. Finally, the granddaughter of the scientist plays a horrible witch.Second, the plot is ridiculous. Why are there random nude scenes? Please tell me! Sure, ill give the director credit for the video camera view, but its overused and very cheesy. Also, the machine opens up a wormhole, melts the camera to the guys head, enables him to see out of it, brings alien bugs to earth, AND lets the bugs control the dead to turn them into zombies. Yes, zombies.Don't get me started on the dialog. So much of it is unbelievably cheesy. "Are you the granddaughter?", followed by "I am." in a ridiculous tone.I actually encourage you to rent this movie with friends to make fun of how horrible this movie is. It almost seems impossible for a movie to suck this bad. Watch it, make fun of it with your friends, and be glad there are still sane people on earth.
True, this movie comes with horror b-movie stamp well placed in its forehead. But some of us will usually get a kick of bad movies for being bad, but that doesn't mean that people should start making awful movies without even trying, at that's what this movie feels like, effortless. Its about this guy, who's very "into videos", but after a witch, a curse video and an old machine he gets transformed into Psyclops (I don't even recall him being referred as psyclops but it's not really important), a guy with a camera inserted into his skull (of course we've seen this before in movies like Hellraiser, La Cité des enfants perdus, Brazil, and Star Trek, but we're not actually looking for originality here, are we?), I gotta admit, the make up effects were quite good, the camera didn't seem too displaced and his whole head (camera included) seemed proportionate enough for the character, unfortunately that's the only good thing coming from this movie. The guy also make electricity come out of his hands and he starts harassing his friends and at the climax he tries to use one of his woman friends in a experiment for something (I wasn't paying that much attention) The movie tries to make us sympathize with the main character/villain, like Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, we don't want to see him harmed, but he is harassing his friends and trying to rule the world or something, of course it doesn't succeed, the character tries too hard to be funny or weird/creepy. The worst thing of it all is the acting, i've seen better in a porn video, it gets irritating, I know you're not supposed to pay attention to those kinds of details in these movies, but at least make an effort! I'm surprised there's even a mention of a director since clearly there was no talk of how and when to say things. In the end, we see these type of films to get a laugh at the absurdity of it all (sort of present in this one) and the laughable & cheesy effects, sure the "special" effects are in effect, special, but nothing a 10 year old couldn't conjure in your run of the mill video editing software.There's a scene at the end where Psyclops makes a beyond the grave (or beyond another parallel dimension/hell whatever) appearance and starts talking (in a oh so clever meta-film fashion) about how could they (his friends) not expect a sequel, in a way ripping of a film like Scream, I mean, who rips off a film like Scream? (well, aside from Scary Movie)In the end the movie doesn't belong in the "good because it's bad" category, it's just annoying.
Truly truly pathetic ! Don't waste one minute of your time on this film. I'm speechless. Awful. I'd have voted 0. Anyone who's given a good write up on this movie is either mad or related to someone in it. The movie started badly but because I'd actually read somewhere that it was good I stuck with it. Alas it got worse. Quite why anyone would make this film amazes me. definitely the worst film I've ever had the misfortune to endure. Avoid at all costs. Wash up some dish's or bath your dog. God please vote and get this down to minus 50, just so no-one else has to go through what I have. The acting was like something out of a porno movie, and poor one at that. 0/10