In 1990, director George Elanjian Jr., who has more or less made his mark with some television and Playboy Video work, directed this cheaply made psuedo-sequel to the 1982 Alien rip-off, Scared To Death.

Falcon Crest stalwart, Star Andreef, plays feisty young Susan Valentine, who gets pulled into some under the table big business dealings when her Uncle Ethan is killed by some sort of creature. A nosey reporter finds out about her Uncle's connection to the Norton Cyberdyne corporation and when he finds out about his death, begins investigating the circumstances surrounding it with Susan's help.

Their investigation leads them to Carter Brown, the shady and very possibly insane C.E.O. of the company (played with no small amount of enthusiasm by the one and only David Gale, best know from the first two Re-Animator films) who is continually injecting himself with some glowing green liquid which leads him to go on some rather strange rants against whoever happens to be around at the time.

Susan finds out the hard way about her Uncle's involvement in the development of some super soldiers known as SYNthesized GENetic Organisms, or Syngenor for short. They soon discover it was an escaped Syngenor that killed her uncle and that Carter Brown and his evil corporate cohorts are brewing more of the monsters in the basement of their headquarters and Carter is not afraid to unleash them upon an unsuspecting public!

Ok, so now that the plot synopsis is out of the way, how does the movie actually fare? Well, it's a fast paced film with a great, crazed performance from Gale who chews through the scenery like a beaver through a twig. He's totally over the top, and his presence alone makes the movie worth looking at for those who know and love his special brand of acting. So it has that in it's favor.

And that's about all it has.

Though the guys in rubber suits…err... I mean, creature effects, are interesting, they're blatant Alien rip offs right down to the tubes on the back and the way that hey crawl around through the air ducts after their prey. There are scenes in this movie that literally just swipe from the more famous sci-fi horror film it wishes it could be. While this proves to be rather amusing in a 'so bad it's good' kind of way, it doesn't make it a good film, just an unintentionally funny one.

Video:

Elite has created an all new transfer for this disc, which is enhanced for anamorphic television sets and is presented in it's original aspect ratio of 1.85.1. Though there are some mild instances of print damage that peek out here and there, and a few scenes that are a bit grainier looking than maybe they should have been, this is a pretty solid transfer for a film of this caliber. Blacks remain deep and strong and don't break up or artifact at all and the colors are reasonably rich and robust throughout.