Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter

What did the leper say to the prostitute? You can keep the tip! This is just one example of a stupid but unresistingly funny little joke that features in "Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter"; a pleasant little amateur horror discovery made by genre fanatics for genre fanatics. Actually, this is perhaps one enthusiast zero-budgeted amateur movie that deserves a little more attention and support, because the ideas and horror knowledge of the people who made this are remarkable and profound. Also the dialogs and cheesy magnified clichéd are bulls eye and quite frankly I don't understand why my fellow reviewers are so negative minded about this film. A young and ambitious journalist, who just proposed to his girlfriend in the most imaginative way I've ever seen, wants to gain fame and reputation by bringing to the surface the malpractices of a local nuclear power plant. Because of their illegal dumping of toxic waste in the water, dozens of people in the area developed terminal cancer. The diabolical board of directors unanimously vote to eliminate the reporter, but he survives the nose dive into a tank of bright green goo and returns as the … Radioactive Reporter, duh! And it will be quite easy for him to get his revenge, because the same people who tried to kill him are now after his fiancée because she might know too much. The radioactive dude quickly adapts to his condition and learns to love killing his foes by the mere touch of his deformed hand or acid saliva. "Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter is quite ingenious and well-written. There's a fairly original detail, for example, that our hero regularly has to the tank of radioactive waste for a dip in order to survive. His methods of murder are fresh and inventive as well. He kills a vainglorious woman by urinating in her bathtub and turning it into a acid hot Jacuzzi. Especially with his journalist's hat on, our anti-hero even looks quite a bit like Freddy Krueger. There's also a downright hilarious scene where he tries to write a letter to his fiancée, but he doesn't get past writing: "Dear Richelle … How can I explain …" and then he has to start over because a piece of gooey and smoking skin fell on the paper. Fun stuff!

Don't read the negative reviews given by other people. I have seen this film many times. The plot is well suited to the title of the film, as it is all about revenge. There is similarity here with films like Dead Heat and Vindicator.

The Plot is this: a reporter sets out to uncover the unsafe conditions at the nearby nuclear power plant. He talks to the director of the power plant and tells him of his findings. The director tells him that there is no problem and leads him personally on an inspection tour of the plant.

Deliberately while the reporter is off-guard, the director pushes him into a pool of radioactive toxic waste. The director is very happy at his smart disposal of the annoying reporter.

However the reporter is still very much alive, and thirsting for revenge against the director. What happens next has to be seen to be believed.....

Excellent make-up effects and good gore and action to quench horror fans. Ghoulish humor galore in this film as it is a horror-comedy genre film but it turns into a serious affair towards the end and our sympathies turn towards the poor reporter.

I highly recommend this film for those of you who have not watched it.

What a rare find this is! A newspaper reporter goes to a nuclear power plant only to get dumped into a pool of contaminated radioactive waste by sleazy executive ^~$holes. He becomes an ugly flesh-faced innocent...reporter...who looks like Freddy Krueger and trying to convince his girlfriend Richelle that's he's him! He has a unique way to kill...with his face! (???) That's right, another independent film by a nut who copied off certain movies to make a lame-brained spoof of horror movies we have all grown to love. And there's much more to describe the horrifically bad taste. One can't fully understand the awful acting and dumb dialogue as well as the plain colored sets along with the shades and hues of blue. As trying to be hilarious, it's willing to be boring. The character Richelle does a decent job at acting in despair and grief up to the bitter end, and the print looks nice, but what's the meaning of R. OF THE R. R.? Virtually none! It's meaningless in all entirety! Rare movies like this are worth a look, including a bizarre skateboard-psycho network movie I saw called SHREDDER ORPHEUS, but if you're planning on forking tons of dough over that hard-to-find movie, seek financial help. Don't complain about getting cheated over it if you had already spent your hard-earned $80 worth!

Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I saw it announced in the TV Guide so I taped it and I found out just how bad it was. Unless you're making a Movie Cheesefest, don't watch this (if you can FIND the movie)!

This movie is so cheap I can't believe the Canadian government gave a subvention to these people to make such a lame picture.

The script is poor. Predictable, cheesy, boring, and the jokes are not even funny. It's a about a reporter who finds out that the local nuclear power plant board of directors is poisoning the environment, and he threatens to reveal their little evil conspiracy to the media, but before he does, the evil director throws him in a pool of radioactive waste. But miraculously, he survives and becomes a superhuman being with radioactive powers, killing the power plant's employees one by one. Seen that before.

The actors are the worst it can possibly get. I'm glad it was the only movie Kathryn Boese (Richelle) was into, because I honestly never saw a worst actress. Randy Pearlstein also doesn't deliver, proving that he has no experience in acting.

If you look closely during the movie, you can see some Dollar Store props, like the foot left behind when Tony Trouble gets eaten up by the giant monkey (yes you heard me right). It just shows you how bad this movie is.

So basically, everything about this movie, the script, the actors, the plot, the sets, the props, the cinematography, the music, sucked. It should be shown at movie schools for people never to make something that bad again.

The Master T Score: 1/2 out of 5 Stars (for entertainment)

This is a weird movie, it isn't a horror but it do says what the title says, it is a revenge by a reporter being so-called killed but he survives the toxic waist and returns as a deformed human, does it rings a bell, Toxic Avenger anyone? The two main leads, David Scammell and Kathryn Boese are unknown actors and disappeared in obscurity after this flick as almost all actors in this feature. I said it before, it isn't a horror even as the sleeve shows gore. It is more a comedy with a lot of one-liners and funny situations. But the movie became hunted down due the director Craig Pryce better known for so many series he directed, this was his first full feature. It do contains a lot of really good effects and some are indeed nasty and gory. A reason why some horror aficionado's do hunt for this rather easy to find on PAL and NTSC vid.