Future Fear

I thought that the movie had some potential. There seemed to be an ironic don't take this to serious quality to it. I mean it's not Citizen Kane or even rocky, but for a b movie it had some laughs and several intelligent scenes. The last scene with Stacey Keach and Jeff Wincott was especially good. Jeff Wincott had some great lines in the Bruce Willis vein. A very sexy love scene and a couple of good fights. It probably was butchered by Corman or who ever is in charge of his movies. It's as if the humour and intelligence was cut, but they couldn't get it all. Lucky for the viewer. Overall it was a b movie, great for late night viewing when there isn't a whole lot on. It's worth it.

An earlier comment already summed up how bad most of this film is, but one thing was left out: The plot.

Let me just add that the plot of this film is unrealistic, incoherent and extremely boring.

Ok, so it is really that bad. But it's entertaining in a Mystery-cience-Theater-3000 sort of way. I mean, it's not just bad, it's awful. It makes you wonder what the writers were thinking. The special effects are a joke, the bright latex costumes are inexcusable, and, to appeal to the highbrows, the movie contains numerous references to Alice in Wonderland, for which the main character has some kind of wierd fetish. Look for Humpty Dumpty on the mantle during the sex scenes. Anyway, it's basically a 90's update of Plan Nine from Outer Space, only without aliens (the only space shot is of this satellite collecting cosmic dust, which is shown maybe eight different times). The movie is worth checking out, if only to know for yourself how bad it really is. But don't be disappointed when you find out that those tight guns and exploding spaceship on the cover are nowhere in the film.

Well, I didn't expect much of this film, but what I saw was the worst film I've ever watched. Everything in this 'film' is d-class: the actors, the production design and ... oh yeah the special effects. I think they used some old firecracker left from last New Year's Eve. If you ever see this film in your video shop, don't touch it. 1 out of 10

Talk about your bad B movies. Future Fear is basically a three person show with scenes cribbed from other movies. Pay close attention to the trailers on the New Horizons video cassette. In the trailer for Eruption, there are scenes of Latin American extras running from an erupting volcano crowding the streets. In the middle of Future Fear, the film makers use the same scene of Latin Americans running from an erupting volcano to demonstrate the effects of mass panic of the citizens who are fleeing from a deadly virus that has been brought back by a comet. The whole movie must consist of under an hour with extra scenes from other Roger Corman New Horizon films padding out the film to a turgid eighty minute length. The plot? Jeff Wincott has created a cure for the virus, but wife Maria Ford's loyalty is for the Government led by a fascist Stacy Keach, and spends time running around the New Horizons office building trying to kill Jeff Wincott. If you ever want to see a film that quotes from Alice in Wonderland and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky then this it. One good scene however. In a flashback scene, Jeff Wincott and Maria Ford recreate the Mad Hatter's tea party. I don't know why, but that is an inspired scene. Too bad it lasts a few moments. The movie itself seems to last a lifetime.