Transmutations (1985)
Directed by George Pavlou / Clive Barker
Genres - Mystery |
Release Date - Apr 18, 1986 (USA) |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom, United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
This is a standard sci-fi horror-thriller that mixes romance together with lumpy underground mutants and a pivotal mad scientist doing dirty deals with a gangland boss. The boss's former fair maiden ("maiden" only in the vaguest of definitions), happens to have been kidnapped from a brothel and is held hostage by the underground lumpies. It seems the unbalanced Dr. Savary (the late Denholm Elliott) has concocted a potion that will make dreams come true -- and leave ugly physical distortions in the process. When a former hitman is hired to save the kidnappee before the boss goon blasts away the mutant-dreamers, the end results are not what the drug lord expects.
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disfigurement, experiment, search, underground [counterculture], drugs, gangster, kidnapping, mad-scientist, monster, mutant, prostitute/prostitution, rampage, rescue, revenge