Synopsis
In the future, the Mutants rule!
The star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun-happy guards.
1985 Directed by Ronald W. Moore
The star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun-happy guards.
Splatter, Night of the Alien, Future Kill - Die Herausforderung, Asesinos del futuro
Going through some old dvds and found my copy of Future Kill. Decided to pop it in as I barely remember it. Has great cover art that unfortunately has absolutely nothing to do with the film. Not even close.
Instead we get a wrongly accused group of frat boys n girls versus punk rock cyborg warriors out for revenge. There's dumb teens, boobs, punk rock, cyborg murder sprees, and bad makeup effects.
Not nearly as fun as it sounds sadly smfh
4.5 out of 10
Not sure there has ever been a more grossly misleading cover in the history of cinema. Thoroughly ick with some soothing glitches here and there because I watched a vhs rip
(best example? Misogyny, fatphobia AND a confederate flag. Good job, movie)
"He'd probably just cum all over his CHAINS!"
Tech noir Road Warrior meets Terminator meets William Gibson gone stoopid frat prank cyber thriller starring some of the cast of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Your mileage may vary on this movie depending on your penchant for confused punk chic and budget dystopian futures.
In Neo-Austin 20XX, Kreuger's remains standing. Local cyborg punx festooned in KISS tchotkes rebel against the establishment by applying copious amounts of eyeliner and frequenting wyld underground garage shows. Graffiti touting, "GO AWAY," "ECCCCO HOMOS," and "HYPHEN" litter downtown, blown-out, brickface alleyways. Welcome to the post apocalyptic, post SoCal takeover Austin, baby. You're gonna dieeeeeee!
If you can withstand robosapiens sexually assaulting Pat Benatar-lite rebel futuro teens, then there's definitely some gold to be mined in Future Kill. I kind of love how frat bro jabronis play such a huge part in an otherwise straightforward apocalyptic actioner. The ultimate lesson in college pranking gone wrong.
I hope that if I ever get radiation poisoning and have a cool claw hand and look like someone that fell off of a moving vehicle in The Road Warrior people behind my back say things like "he'd probably just cum on his chains".
Potent sleaze n' cheese, almost reaching an ideal of trashy '80s horror cinema. It's a quasi-post-apocalyptic slasher with a barely coherent plot about idiotic frat boys in makeup right out of Liquid Sky finding themselves hunted in the city by anti-nuclear "mutants" and their terrifying armored (cyborg?) leader. A live-action splatterpunk flick that offers surprising texture to its variety of freaks and villains, plus a sweet performance by the all-woman punk band Max and the Make-Ups toward the end. And let's address that H.R. Giger poster art: yeah, it's a total video store eye-catcher, but don't fall into the trap of assuming the movie couldn't possibly hold up behind such a face. Besides, there are different versions of the art…
CW: a little mention of homophobia and rape
- Yeah, I'd like to get off on a dance floor
- I bet that guy's got a hard-on eight hours a day.
- Might be fun to find out
- Bet he hadn't had any since his accident.
- Prolly cum all over his chains. [motions to go to him] Come on.
- No way. That guy scares the HELL out of me. I'd rather suck off a ball bat. Have fun! I'll wait here.
- Wouldn't you even want to know what it's like?
- I'd just read your diary, unless you take some Polaroids. I'd be really interested in seeing those.
Above, two girls (prostitutes?) talk about getting some…
The movie you get when you order The Warriors on Wish.com. Just kidding, but in all seriousness, this film is something else, think of it as a low budget college frat movie meets weird slasher film. I don’t know for sure, but I think the majority of the 250,000 dollar budget had to go to paying H.R. Giger for what has to be the greatest movie poster of all time, with some money left over to pay the two stars of Texas Chain Saw Massacre Edwin Neal and Marilyn Burns. I guess there may have a been a few bucks for the two kills in the film that actually needed special effects, the rest were all off screen. The cast…
Not just Austin Warriors, but also Austin Young Warriors, as it equally reminded me of both films.
All of the choice quotes and scenes have already been appropriately pointed out by fellow Weird Wednesday-goers, so I urge you to read their reviews, but I will point out that this movie includes, in the span of about 2 minutes, a homophobic, misogynist, fat-shaming sequence all in the presence of a Confederate flag, preceded immediately by a tar-and-feathering, thus completing Southern Frat Bingo.
Whether Future-Kill‘s poster ever teased anyone into seeing it in the theater or not, its image on a video box sure lured a rental or hundreds over the years. That’s not a knock-off H.R. Giger image but the real deal, dressing up an image from the film in far cooler raiment than truly earned. Giger did the poster as a favor when asked and did so purely on the fact that Future-Kill featured some of the actors and production staff that had worked on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Future-Kill‘s one other selling point. Giger apparently turned down many a film for such a treatment, so Future-Kill‘s poster coup was coup indeed.
Whatever it looks like from the outside, the…
This is some period trash. With a total of four pointless slow motion scenes and a bonkers soundtrack, a group of frat boys being hazed put on their best David Bowie makeup and head to “the bad part of town” to jump some thug on the street as a dare, but instead they inadvertently run into a huge half metal dude named Splatter. There’s a posse of punks. The rest of the movie is basically just chasing, with the inclusion of a fairly cool concert scene.
Fake blood score: 1
A frat has to make up for a couple of pranks they pulled on elder members, so they're ordered to kidnap (and immediately release) the leader of a nuclear power protest group. Said protest group operate in city slums and don 80s-new-wave eye makeup to resemble mutants of nuclear fallout. The second in command of the protest group, a big dude that looks straight out of MAD MAX (named SPLATTER, and played by Edwin Neal, the hitchhiker from TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE), goes against the peaceful protest ideas of the group by being a psychotic murderer. When he sees the frat show up to play their prank, he nabs the opportunity to kill the leader of his own group and tells…