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Director(s): Steve Wang and Screaming Mad George (The Guyver)
Steve Wang (Guyver: Dark Hero)
Screenplay: Jon Purdy (The
Guyver)
Nathan Long and Steve Wang (Guyver: Dark Hero)
Cast: (The Guyver) - Jack Armstrong
(as Sean Barker/The Guyver); Vivian Wu (as Mizky Segawa); Mark Hamill (as Max
Reed); David Gale (as Fulton Balcus); Michael Berryman (as Lisker); Jimmie
Walker (as Striker)
(Guyver: Dark Hero) - David Hayter
(as Sean Barker); Kathy Christopherson (as Cori); Bruno Patrick (as Crane);
Christopher Michael (as Atkins); Stuart Weiss (as Marcus)
A Night of a Thousand Horror (Movies) #97-8
A 1000 Anime Crossover
The convoluted credits above for
this blog entry is only because on 1000
Anime I decided to cover both the live action adaptations of Yoshiki Takaya's legendary manga at once.
Two very odd creations in hindsight, The
Guyver from 1991 a Brian Yuzna
production that decided for a PG-13 tone in spite of its elaborate practical
effects, the sequel Guyver: Dark Hero
(a film I covered on an old blog, whose review I might put on this one in the
future for interest) taking influence from the fight coordinator's history with
the Power Rangers TV series in their original Japanese form, alongside his group
the Alpha Stunt Team, to turn the
short franchise into a bloodier version of that show with pride in its low
budget ambition. Do they qualify for "A
Night of a Thousand Horror (Movies)" though? Body horror does permeate
them, something that could rear its head more if I ever covered the animated
adaptations from Japan, as men are turned into monsters (including an infamous
moment for one famous actor in the 1991 Guyver)
and the Guyver unit itself transforming a person into an alien-human hybrid who
can overcome even death with Cronenbergian effect. While they're sci-fi monster
movies first and foremost, they do fit in terms of their premises as horror,
only the 1991 film took some strange liberties into a lot of slapstick comedy
with cult horror actors like Michael
Berryman, Jeffrey Combs in a
cameo and David Gale, and Guyver: Dark Hero having stuntmen in
rubber monster costumes kicking the crap out of each other like a bizarre take
on an old fifties American monster movie.
For the full, lengthy review of
both in one post, follow the link to the review HERE.
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