Best movie ever!

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Prologue: Sean Young goes absolutely nuts (art imitating real life) which quickly lands her in trouble with her husband who has very little understanding for wives who suddenly start acting like blood-sucking vampires. Later on, their two sons are auctioned off to the highest foster-home bidder by their father. He senses that they aren't quite normal. Yes, one of them even wears nail-polish 15 years later. Dad was right. Weg mit dir!The beginning credits start, and then they finally end. First scene: a brilliant chess player is making money by beating everyone in sight, first an Oriental with pink nail-polish, and then Alex with black nail- polish. You can say what you want about this muddled TV/straight-to- video movie, but you can't say it isn't original: two gay guys with nail-polish playing chess one after another is a cinematic novelty. This had never been featured in any movie before.From here HP plods on, without much rhyme or reason. And yet Alex's nail-polish still doesn't wear off.To be frank, at this point (around the middle) I had to go out and get a hamburger, so I missed around 15 minutes. A mind-shattering loss to what would have been a far richer life for me, to be sure, but somehow I managed to recover from this major blow and bravely ploughed on. I just wish the movie had ploughed on as well, but it didn't. It still just plodded along. And Alex's nail-polish still wouldn't wear off.Suffice it to say Alex suffers from a mysterious condition called "increasing IQitis". This means that his intelligence grows so quickly that he can literally feel his "brain getting bigger". Sort of the opposite of what has been happening to Sean Penn since his birth.So amazingly smart is Alex supposed to be, and yet who does he go to consult? A Catholic priest. How very wise a decision. The priest gives him a Bible and tells him to pray: just the kind of advice I'd give to a stark-raving madman with a 545 IQ.The priest is played by none other than Udo Kier himself. Udo "They- hire-me-for-weird-short-roles/cameos-in-mostly rather-bad-B-movies" Kier. Udo "They-must like-my-supposedly-weird-face/persona" Kier. Kier is about as unique as an abortion sub-plot in a U.S. TV soaper. Not exactly the Second Coming of Klaus Kinski, I'm afraid…Apparently, there are not enough Catholic priests in New York (which has a sizable Italian and Latino population) so that the city has to import German ones. Udo's thick accent leads one to suggest that he'd gotten off the boat just a day earlier. Either that, or he uses the same spiffing vocal coach that Arnold Schwarzenegger has been employing (I'm not making this up). Udo loses face by appearing in this movie – if that's possible. And then he literally loses his face when a demon tears him into tiny beats.Yes, a pig-faced demon.At the end, everything ends on a tragic note, which was to be expected. Perpetually unlucky Alex arrives only minutes after his long-lost brother (older or younger? Sorry, wasn't paying that much attention, hamburger and everything…) blows his brains with a pistol. These two had last seen each other when they were around 12 and 9 respectively, and yet somehow neither had managed to recognize the other. Silly.In the last scene, Alex is tied to a bed in a lunatic asylum, while Olivia Hussey transforms into another one of those pig-nosed demons. What a cop-out ending.There was also some rather quickly/vaguely mentioned stuff about secret Soviet experiments regarding metaphysical phenomena. But the nail-polish STILL didn't wear off. Perhaps they should have just stuck Alex into your typical nu-metal boy-band and never turned this messy script into a movie

I'm not sure what's more disturbing; this terrible, terrible movie or the fact that people are actually rating it positively on this website.What is going on? Is this the first film you people have seen, or are you on drugs? This film is 100% complete and utter GUFF! Oh Christ! What makes it all the more unforgivable is that both the trailer and the first 15 minutes of the film create the impression that this is actually going to be a good film - but then it simply slides and just gets worse and worse and worse. By half way through the film you just want to switch it off.Whatever you do, don't watch this film. It's not even one of those bad films that you have to watch because they're SO bad its amazing (like The Postman) - its just plain RUBBISH.The person who made this film should go back to whatever they were doing before.

And i don't even know how to justify the 1 i am giving this movie, the scale wont let me go lower.OK, we have everything here, poor acting, lame disjointed storyline, poorly managed blood scenes, nothing realistic, nothing makes sense, characters weren't interesting just plain dull or ridiculous. But the biggest disappointment of all was when we finally got to look at the "scary beast", well into the movie it turns out to be some rubber pig-faced recycled costume, it reminded me of those monsters on the early seasons of the Power Rangers, God that's when you realize that your initial gut feeling was in the right, it was a crap movie.....Someone here mentioned that you usually get these sorts of movies in English language, i could not agree more, any good horror clip that i have seen has not been in English, Thailand has a very good horror movie industry for example, it is also interesting to note that the only people who are giving good ratings to this piece of garbage are either American or English... i think you guys should go have a look at the international section on your local videoshop, you might be surprised of what other people can produce.

Where do I start...??? Very simply: Decent concept that could have been very intriguing EXCELLENT beginning to set the pace of the film I really like chess, so I thought that would be a neat added element to the film... GEEEEEEEEZ...TOTALLY disintegrates into an EXTREMELY poorly written, directed, and acted film. PERIOD.Very sad too; I REALLY, REALLY wish I had read more of the comments and especially the message board MUCH more carefully. Usually I do, but I musta REALLY screwed up on this one : ) I can excuse a film completely for being aimless and even pointless, ***IF*** it at least has style, mood, and is done with SOME bloody competence. It is SO dang funny how some of these film makers snag a bunch of these 'B' actors whom we'd immediately recognize and then they have a combined screen time of about 8 minutes. When will I learn... I felt sorry for Sean Young; she had all of, what..., 3 minutes. Sad...Anyway, by the end, if you have ANY vestige of intelligence left (which is bloody unlikely) this is one of those cases where you will TRULY be sitting there stunned wondering what the HELL you just did with the last 90 minutes or so...I'm serious here. Believe me on this one...I'm not normally hateful or unforgiving when it comes to film and Especially the 'Horror' genre, honestly. But this one fails on almost EVERY level.