True, this movie comes with horror b-movie stamp well placed in its forehead. But some of us will usually get a kick of bad movies for being bad, but that doesn’t mean that people should start making awful movies without even trying, and that’s what this movie feels like, effortless. Its about this guy, who’s very “into videos”, but after a witch, a curse video and an old machine he gets transformed into Psyclops (I don’t even recall him being referred as psyclops but it’s not really important), a guy with a camera inserted into his skull (of course we’ve seen this before in movies like Hellraiser, La Cité des enfants perdus, Brazil, and Star Trek, but we’re not actually looking for originality here, are we?), I gotta admit, the make up effects were quite good, the camera didn’t seem too displaced and his whole head (camera included) seemed proportionate enough for the character, unfortunately that’s the only good thing coming from this movie. The guy also make electricity come out of his hands and he starts harassing his friends and at the climax he tries to use one of his woman friends in a experiment for something (I wasn’t paying that much attention) The movie tries to make us sympathize with the main character/villain (like Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde, we don’t want to see him harmed, but he is harassing his friends and trying to rule the world or something) of course it doesn’t succeed, the character tries too hard to be funny or weird/creepy.
The worst thing of it all is the acting, i’ve seen better in a porn video, it gets irritating, I know you’re not supposed to pay attention to those kinds of details in these movies, but at least make an effort! I’m surprised there’s even a mention of a director since clearly there was no talk of how and when to say things. In the end, we see these type of films to get a laugh at the absurdity of it all (sort of present in this one) and the laughable & cheesy effects, sure the “special” effects are in effect, special, but nothing a 10 year old couldn’t conjure in your run of the mill video editing software.
There’s a scene at the end where Psyclops makes a beyond the grave (or beyond another parallel dimension/hell whatever) appearance and starts talking (in a oh so clever meta-film fashion) about how could they (his friends) not expect a sequel, in a way ripping of a film like Scream, I mean, who rips off a film like Scream? (well, aside from Scary Movie)
In the end the movie doesn’t belong in the “good because it’s bad” category, it’s just annoying.
