Typical junk. "According to the plan, we had to keep it completely under control!"
© Alex about the monster
Sometimes this film is presented as the third part in the franchise "The hills have eyes", but there are no direct links with the previous two parts. The most we can assume is that events take place in the same universe. It would seem that 1995, soon Wes Craven will shoot the first Scream, so will we finally see something better than the first and second Hills? We won't see. A year before Craven's The Scream, something prompted him to produce the misunderstanding.
“Mind Ripper” is a typical B movie with very weak actors and a very conditional script, which focuses not on the development of characters, but on action, which, in turn, suffers from a terrible production. From a very bad camera camera to low-quality murders. The picture is so dark that half of the film the audience is forced to guess what is happening only by sounds. With the monster, the authors generally decided not to bother - just some balding man with an unusual language, from which they want to make a super soldier. The film does not even hide that it partially relies on the plot of “Frankenstein”, but to compare this and the classic novel is as disrespectful as... come up with a comparison yourself, I am lazy.
Sad to admit, the talented Lens Henriksen has long been an indicator of bad cinema. Apart from the Alien and Predator movies, the actor appears in solid low-budget movies like this, and I’ll be honest, saying that Henrixen somehow saves this film from a very low fall. All the other characters are so uninteresting that sometimes you want to turn away from the screen. Two girls, one of whom is a daughter and the other is the ex-girlfriend of Henrixen's character, and two guys, one of whom is just nobody, and the other likes to listen to music. I'm not kidding right now, love of music is the only character characteristic. Of course, there are some in the background, but this is already true, cannon fodder. Alex alone is worthy of mention, as he utters a phrase that expresses the main feature of such plots.
But let’s not forget the monster. His sounds, like laughter or crying, are so ridiculous that they cause laughter. And since laughter prolongs life, so be it, the title of the worst film in history will bypass Mind Ripper. Do you know why that name is? Because our little guy has an addiction that brings him closer to zombies. It is a shame that the darkness hides everything interesting, and that the budget of the film was not enough for a decent makeup monster. Hulture, which everything here literally breathes, is unlikely to cause sympathy.
3 out of 10