My review was written in June 1990 after watching the Imperial Entertainment video cassette.
"Metamorphosis" is an extremely silly Italian horror film in home video release Stateside. Pic is not to be confused with an American feature, "Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor", made about the same time but still unreleased.
Picture adequately poses as a U. S. product with location filming in Virginia and an American cast.
Gene Le Brock, who previously topline Troma's "Fortress of Amerikkka", stars as a genetic engineer whose university puts him in a publish or perish situation. He unwisely speeds up his ambitious experiments (using himeself as p=guinea pig) to conquer disease and ageing, turning into a monster.
Pic's ludicrous finale reveals a basic misunderstanding of sci-fi, moving from the incredibile to the sublime. Le Brock's regresson through various stages of "Dr. Phibes" makeup (by Maurizio Trani) culminated in him turning not into a missing link, but rather a baby tyrannosaurus rex. Police shoot down the dinosaur, but the damage is done.
Acting is acceptable with Catherine Baranov making a luscious leading lady. Softcore film star Laura Gemser pops up as a prostitute who's one of the Jekyll & Hyde hero's victims.
"Metamorphosis" is an extremely silly Italian horror film in home video release Stateside. Pic is not to be confused with an American feature, "Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor", made about the same time but still unreleased.
Picture adequately poses as a U. S. product with location filming in Virginia and an American cast.
Gene Le Brock, who previously topline Troma's "Fortress of Amerikkka", stars as a genetic engineer whose university puts him in a publish or perish situation. He unwisely speeds up his ambitious experiments (using himeself as p=guinea pig) to conquer disease and ageing, turning into a monster.
Pic's ludicrous finale reveals a basic misunderstanding of sci-fi, moving from the incredibile to the sublime. Le Brock's regresson through various stages of "Dr. Phibes" makeup (by Maurizio Trani) culminated in him turning not into a missing link, but rather a baby tyrannosaurus rex. Police shoot down the dinosaur, but the damage is done.
Acting is acceptable with Catherine Baranov making a luscious leading lady. Softcore film star Laura Gemser pops up as a prostitute who's one of the Jekyll & Hyde hero's victims.