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Metamorphosis (1990)Dr. Peter Houseman is a brilliant geneticist who is working on a serum which will stop human aging, but his colleagues don't believe in his work. When his university funding is threatened ... See full summary » Director:George EastmanWriter:George Eastman |
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Title: Metamorphosis (1990)
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Gene LeBrock | ... |
Dr. Peter Houseman
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Catherine Baranov | ... |
Sally Donnelly
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Dr. Mike Lester
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Willy Carson
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Tommy
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Professor Lloyd
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Tom Story | ... |
Professor Huston
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Patricia Kelly
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Wally Doyle | ... |
Inspector
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Laura Gemser | ... |
Prostitute
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Serina Steinberg | ... |
Patricia's friend
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Old professor
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Hopkins
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Allison Stokes | ... |
Alice
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Doctor Owen
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Dr. Peter Houseman is a brilliant geneticist who is working on a serum which will stop human aging, but his colleagues don't believe in his work. When his university funding is threatened by his skeptical benefactors, the doctor takes a desperate measure to justify his work. He administers the serum to himself, but the results are unexpected and horrendous. Written by Patrick D. Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net>
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 August 1990 (Italy) See more »Also Known As:
DNA formula letale See more »Filming Locations:
Norfolk, Virginia, USABox Office
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ITL 600,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Dr. Peter Houseman: You were the main dish and they served you up with every possible sauce.
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For the shot of the needle piercing Peter's eye, a pigs eye was used. See more »Goofs
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Sally Donnelly: How was lunch?Dr. Peter Houseman: You were the main dish and they served you up with every possible sauce.
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"Metamorphosis" is like David Cronenberg's "The Fly" if "The Fly" had been filmed in someone's rec room.
A young, hotshot scientist experiments with a serum (don't they always?) that, when injected into himself, makes his DNA begin to evolve backwards to man's most primitive state (or something like that). Now you might think that would mean he would end up as an amoeba or a speck of nothing, but boy would you be wrong. Apparently, we are descended from lizards, and I know this because the scientist in question first begins to simply decay, then makes a brief appearance as a dinosaur (I kid you not) and ends up as a little lizard in a jar.
This movie isn't even in the remotest realm of good, but it's actually not horribly terrible either, at least not until its last 20 minutes or so. Those turn into a seemingly endless chase scene involving a little boy and his mother trying to get away from the monstrous scientist. But you have to stay with it to see the climactic howler of a scene in which a man in a felt dinosaur costume tries to horrify us with what the scientist has become. It seriously looks like something that would be worn at a child's birthday party -- if it were purple, it would look like Barney.
Where did movies like this ever even play?
Grade: D+