Starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr
Directed by Ian Curteis
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A scientist has created a breakthrough process for turning objects into energy and reassembling them, but his employer's plans to discredit him force him into making a daring experiment on himself.
Despite a few interesting visuals and some effective scenes, the film is brought down to earth a bit by its lack of originality, using story elements already brought to the screen in films like The Fly and 4D Man. I rather like lead Bryant Haliday, who created some memorable characters in the movies Devil Doll and Curse Of The Voodoo, but he's not given enough to do here and after his character's transformation into a murdering monster, the filmmakers saddle him with a rather uninspired makeup and design as well as some fairly weak dialogue. I still found some positives in the film, which features some fine actors and held my interest, but it seems more like a less impressive version of the superior sci-fi chillers that had to have inspired it.
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