Friday, October 17, 2025

 Deadly Instincts (1997) – Paul Matthews.

A sinister extraterrestrial conveniently crash lands next to a college campus, proceeding to perpetrate its slimy shenanigans in gloopy 90s creature feature Deadly Instincts. Dazzlingly nubile bombshell student Samantha Womack, dully handsome prof Todd Jensen, and Oliver Tobias's prototypically surly cop make heavy work of dispatching this galactic grotesquery. There's a deliciously faux quality throughout, nothing feels remotely authentic, crass set design, sketchy US accents, hilariously bogus Boston PD, and second hand dialogue, excepting the magnificent man-in-a-suit alien which is a bona fide B-Monster marvel! One of the more joyous aspects of Deadly Instincts is seeing Womack and Jensen stoically delivering the execrable text, while a clearly disinterested Tobias phones it in like a boss. Deadly Instincts proved revelatory, being one of the most goofily entertaining Sci-schlockers I have enjoyed in quite some time. Like Ed Wood before him, Paul Matthews apparent inability to appreciate the howling absurdity of his vision is no small part of Deadly Instinct's sensationally Schlocky appeal! Arguably more fun when viewed today, than upon its initial release, this fun, gratuitously goo-clotted British creature feature is surely destined for B-Cult status!










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