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Cyst
USA 2020
produced by Travis Ayers, Tyler Russell, Andy Silverman, Eva Habermann (executive) for Fantomfilm, Narrative-Films TX
directed by Tyler Russell
starring Eva Habermann, George Hardy, Greg Sestero, Jason Douglas, Gene Jones, Darren Ewing, Torren Davis, Terri Merritt Bennett, Keturah Branch, Francesca Santoro, Brianna Anderson, Jim Clinton, Kyle Roberts
written by Tyler Russell, Andy Silverman, music by Sam Lipman, special effects supervisor: Kyle Roberts
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Despite
not being fully tested, and despite the advice to the contrary of his
nurse Patricia (Eva Habermann), Dr. Guy (George Hardy) is hell-bent to
present his device to remove cysts by laser to the patent board. And since
he doesn't have any test subjects, he simply grows a giant cyst on his
assistant Preston's (Darren Ewing) back to demonstrate the effectiveness
of his device - but of course, the demonstration goes horribly wrong as
Preston's cyst, once removed, takes on a life of its own, grows
exponentially in size, and threatens to kill all in Dr. Guy's lab - and
it's not made any better when Dr. Guy seals off his whole clinic, not so
much out of responsibility to not let the thing escape to the outer world,
but out of pettiness, as he doesn't want the patent board members to leave
without granting him a patent first. And ironically, it's now the laser
device that was at the start of things that might actually be instrumental
in saving everybody - or everybody who's not snatched by the cyst first at
least ... Now this being a film that unites George Hardy from Troll
2 and Greg Sestero from The Room
(playing one of the patent board members here) - two movies held in the
highest of regards by bad movie enthusiasts -, you might already guess
(and guess right) that Cyst has not set out to be the next Citizen
Kane. That's not to say that Cyst is just a bad movie, it's
actually lots of fun, and for all the right reasons: It's unashamedly
trashy, but at the same time never takes itself too seriously, and while
not all the humour's exactly high brow, it never veers off into the
moronic. And fans of classic monster cinema are likely to relish that most
special effects in this one are of a practical nature, and they look quite
fine - not super-convincing maybe, but given this is a bug-eyed monster
movie done on a budget, one simply doesn't expect perfection.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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