'Brain Slasher' (1991) – Steve Barnett.
In a witheringly desolated, dystopian future, an irreversible ecological devastation has rendered the earth largely uninhabitable, and only a privileged few remain technologically cosseted above ground, existing in hermetically sealed isolation, barely sentient, permanently plugged into the omnipresent Infinisynth neural network, this sluggard, dopamine-addicted society blithely unaware of the maniacally mutated madness below ground! In Steve Barnett's gruesome, and eerily prescient, super-splattery Sci-fi shocker our 'dreamy' hero Judy (Marta Alicia) rebels against the VR hegemony of Infinisynth, and is promptly banished to the diabolically demented, dangerously polluted 'Deadlands', vile, retrograde ecosystem wherein diseased subhuman cannibals eke out a stomach-churningly sinister, calorifically debased existence below ground; these physically ruinous, wholly bestial, monstrous man-eaters are ruthlessly subjugated by 'The Seer'(Angus Scrimm), and along with her fellow human captive Stover (Bruce Campbell), they suffer the most unspeakable privations in this nightmarish nocturnal netherworld, both clearly cognisant of the fact that the megalomaniacal Seer has a grim fate in store for them far worse than the solar irradiated devastation above!
Happily, 'Brain Slasher' proves to be an apt title, being gorily replete with a sanguineous cornucopia of sensationally splashy practical effects, luridly created by the sublime splatter mad hatters at KNB! While the prosaic script isn't exactly poetry, the zesty performances have a delightfully cartoonish quality, and director Barnett menacingly maintains his psychotic subterranean cauldron of cannibal carnage at an agreeably carnal temperature, fatefully boiling over to a ferociously flesh flaying finale that is bound to satisfy those deviant fright-fans with bloodthirstier appetites! Aficionados of low budget horror heroes H. G Lewis, Fred Olen Ray, 'Neon Maniacs', and mayhemic melt movie masterpiece 'Street Trash' are sure to get their B-Movie brains spectacularly slashed by the mind-warping madness of 'Brain Slasher'!
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