The film is very much in the tradition of John Landis’s overrated Schlock (1973 / trailer) in that it aims to be bad on purpose because, like in Schlock, it mistakes being obviously bad on purpose as being funny. That said, purveyors of true retinal torture are in for a treat with Shadow Creature. The film seems to enjoy a level of cult popularity in France, where it is a regular at bad film festivals, but then, the French have long been known to appreciate things that fly way below the radar of the average non-French Joe. The script, which is credited as being based on the "true story" of the "Flesh Eating Cannibal Creatures from Cleveland" (hardy-har-har), was supposedly written while Shadow Creature was being filmed, and this shows in more way than one – most obviously in the non-sequitur verbal exchanges and plot developments (it is easy to imagine Shadow Creature as the final product of script produced by an undead, drunken Harold Pinter on acid).
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Melvin?įilmed in Buffalo, NY, for some odd reason Shadow Creature is set in Cleveland – just another odd decision in the script supplied by Chris Wojnicz and Jason Wolthuizen (the latter who also supplied the "script" to the 1997 horror home movie Cannibal Rollerbabies ). Melvin's hot blonde and mini-skirted assistant fit in all this? Can the rubber suit be stopped before he rips off more heads – including those of Brighten, Jenny and Prof. Little does anyone know that the now-mutant mussels can cause people to mutate into flesh-eating, rubber-suit lizards in clothing, and that one such rubber suit (Scott Heim) is responsible for the murders.
Melvin owes the mayor (Anthony Chrysostom) – who also happens to be a local gangster with a god-complex – bookoo bucks because he has failed at creating a hair-rejuvenation lotion made from zebra mussels. Melvin (Dennis Keefe), who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident some time before. The victims have all been ripped apart, half-eaten, and covered with slime. Brighten (Shane Minor, former Mr USA and Playgirl July 1994 centerfold, seen pumping his muscles for the magazine here to the left) is put in charge of finding out who is behind a series of brutal murders in Cleveland, Ohio.
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And indeed, the cinematography of the film, as bad as it often is, is the most professional aspect of the entire project.ĭt. Gribbons, a successful cinematographer for commercials and documentaries. Shadow Creature is the only film to date of James P.
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