Canada / Netherlands 1997 120m Directed by: Rene Daalder. Starring: Balthazar Getty, Tchéky Karyo, Alice Krige, Kenneth Welsh, Laura Harris, Brad Austin, Christopher Heyerdahl, Kris Holden-Ried, Daniel Pilon, Lynne Adams, Susan Almgren, Amanda Blitz, Gouchy Boy. Music by: Ralph Grierson.
In a future world where Earth's ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that he hopes will save the world. In the course of his work, a terrible accident occurs, transforming him into a fantastic otherworldly lifeform and changing his house into a huge living entity which threatens all who enter.
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This is clearly one of the worst movies of the 90s. The script is simply terrible and the same can be said of the dialog, the acting, the music and just about everything else - except Lara Harris's face and breasts. At first I thought it was Laura Harris, the chesty beauty from "The Faculty", but I was surprised to find out that there were two of them. Alice Krige also shows her breasts; they're okay, but kind of small.
Why do I dwell on breasts? All in all, their four breasts are the only things worth seeing in this unbelievably bad movie. The premise is okay, it's the execution that sucks. The entire film, from A-Z, from top to bottom, is a 100% amateur venture. For a while the movie refuses to confirm its horror status and delves endlessly in ultra-moronic teen-movie waters; the school's coach is obsessed with boxing, likes to beat up the students he (unexplainedly) dislikes, and here's a first: a movie father who prefers the daughter's boyfriend to the daughter herself! I've never seen anything dumber in any teen movie.
Harris's evil boyfriend sees that Getty is eying Harris, so what does he do? His first impulse is to fight her but he hands her over instead! And then Harris starts French-kissing Getty whom she barely knows! The entire movie is like this. One absurd scene follows another. There is no point in making a list of the silly moments because there would simply be no end to it, and I don't want to be stuck writing about this movie well into the next year.
Review by fedor8 from the Internet Movie Database.