TV Pilot From Canada

 

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984: PRISONER OF THE FUTURE-A group called "The Movement" (headed by an old fart Dr. Fontaine (Andrew Foot)) has taken over the US and charges a guy named Weston (Stephen Markle) with "crimes against humanity" and locks him up in a prison run by "The Warden" (Dan Francks), a bad Dr. Smith wannabe. Flashbacks tell a lot of the story but I was still confused as to exactly what this whole thing was about.

Director Tibor Takacs (before his more well-known movies) does try hard to present a Kafkaesque nightmare with a few doses of The Prisoner and Brave New World but a minuscule budget, poor script and only so-so acting undermine it. Actually, a CBC unsold TV pilot.

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Get The Raid!

 

MOSQUITO MAN-2005-A death row convict reeks havoc at a research lab that was scheduled to use him in an experiment involving our pesky pals, mosquitoes. Trying to escape he's exposed to their experiment and mutates into "manquisto", a giant mosquito. He/it kind of goes after a reporter (Corin Nemec) and his girlfriend (Musetta Vander) who looks like a Vulcan sometimes.Later the girlfriend begins to turn into a "womanquito' and kills the monster and herself.  

This was one of the first horror films made by the SyFy channel when they got tired of showing other filmmakers' junk and decided to show their own. Director Tibor Takacs had made THE GATE and I, MADMAN in better times.

The Gate Opens

THE GATE-1987-Some stupid parents leave their teenage daughter in charge of their house and her younger brother Glen (Stephen Dorff) for three days. Glen and his nerdy friend (Louis Tripp) find a rock buried in the ground. The death of Glen’s dog and a heavy metal album played backwards somehow open up a gate that releases stop motion mini-monsters to terrorize the trio.

 The effects are pretty good in this low budget but entertaining movie. Director Tibor Takacs later made I, MADMAN and GATE 2: THE TRESPASSERS.

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