THE MUTATIONS
Donald Pleasance stars as a scientist secretly developing a new hybrid creation of human / plant creatures, in this bizarre UK horror from 1974.
Pleasance enlists the help of deformed sidekick Lynch ( played by Tom Baker ) who lives with the local fairground freak show, who kidnaps unwilling young students for experimentation.
Pleasance turns in a quite restrained performance, while, Tom Baker, looking like a deformed Dr Who, complete with hat and scarf, steals the show as Lynch.
Unique looking plant creatures and some nice time lapse photography contribute to a very colourful and at times unsettling movie.
DEADLINE
A horror author’s quest to write his best ever work results in fantasy and reality crossing over, resulting in madness, in this unusual Canadian horror.
More of a psychological study rather than an out and out horror ( the author has a drug addicted wife, and children who are gradually going off the rails ) this is an enjoyable flick, presented in their usual excellent way by Vinegar Syndrome.
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