Wednesday, July 8, 2026

 Biohazard (1985) – Fred Olen Ray.

'Those horror movies give you weird ideas!!!!'

Gruff veteran actor Aldo Ray turned up in some pretty creaky B-flicks during the twilight of his career, and in some, he appears relatively sober, Biohazard is demonstratively one of the better ones. Following a catastrophic mishap at an off-grid military research facility, a small, psychically manifested being runs bloodily amok, and it is down to likeable hunk Carter (William Fair) and striking, voluptuously endowed empath (Angelique Pettyjohn) to arrest its frenzied, flesh-flaying rampage! Interestingly, even with its stridently 80s synthesizer score, B-maestro Olen Ray's boffo creature feature Biohazard shares many similarities with both 50s Drive-In Sci-schlock, and the gonzoid extravagances of revered psychotronic polymath Ray Dennis Steckler. I dig Olen Ray's shtick, he frequently delivers on the gore, action, and bodacious displays of T&A, which provides the very lifeblood of watchable brain melt. Along with Scalps, Biohazard is one of my fave go-to Olen Ray gems, it's playful, doesn't take itself all too seriously, but has just enough smarts to know what it takes to produce a quality B-feature. As a nipper who grew up wrong on Godzilla /Roger Corman monster mashed quickies, man-in-a-suit, or in this case, child-in-a-suit shenanigans is like Mother's Milk to me!








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