The Butcher Shop

Shh. It's all right.

No. No, it's not all right.

Nothing is all right.

Now, now, please, please, turn the ship around.

I'm not going to leave you alone.

I'm not like Foster.

No, don't. I'll shoot.

Hey, not.

I said stop!

I saw the way you were looking at me before.

What?

What?

The way you took care of me and touched me.

You want me.

You're crazy.

I know you want me.

That's why you wanted Foster gone.

So we can be alone.

So I sent him away.

for you,

for your writing,

for us.

No!

You're a murderer! Stop!

Well, then shoot me.

Kill me. Shoot me.

Shoot me!

Every man

must choose a mate

Katrina

and I choose you

I choose you

Hey folks

this is Cinema beef

the burnt ends

those are the crispy pieces

on the end of the barbecue that

they taste oh so good or maybe

bitter in some of these

in this sense but

it's a single review show

that we do

just to have more reviews

out there and you know watch some fun stuff

and

we are watching tonight

Circuit Breaker aka Inhumanoid

from 1996

we'll get into all that after I introduce our guest

he is

one third of my

broadcasting team on the last

called Torchy's and he has this whole

network of podcasts

known as the Cinema Degeneration

podcast. I don't know what you call

podcast network but there's a bunch of them.

I'm sure you'll tell us all about them.

Cameron Scott is here. How you doing

sir? I'm doing pretty good.

I'm pretty excited to talk about this

one because this is part of that

Roger Corman lineup that we were discussing

and yeah

I'm pretty excited. I got a lot of thoughts

on this one.

I didn't know there were so many. We'll talk about it.

This series, this is part of

the Roger Corman Presents series

that was on Showtime

that were like full length movies.

Apparently there was a whole season of like

15 or something and then like a whole

second season of these.

Just putting out, I'm sure with the help

of Julie, because they're under the New Horizons

label.

If you rent something

like this.

Yeah, we're getting to the plot and the meat and potatoes of this.

Circuit Break Reiki Inhumanoid.

Look for it at your IMDB.

It says...

A family of three is traveling in space where they encounter a stranded spaceship.

They manage to pull out one survivor who's in shock.

However, when the father goes on to investigate the ship, he finds that everyone was murdered.

Suddenly, the stranger leaves him on a damaged spaceship and starts to terrorize his wife and daughter.

You know what?

Fuck you people.

It's just a little longer.

It shows up to me that Stranger is really an emotionally unstable Android program without morals.

Making him go on a killer rampage.

Well, he did that already.

Who will survive?

The fun thing about these movies is they star a bunch of genre people that you love.

Richard Grieco, take him, relieve him.

He's charismatic as fuck to me.

Plays Adam, our robot man.

He seems like he's the one person really acting in this movie.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're not wrong about that.

Everybody else is just kind of, eh, they're just sort of there, you know?

Laura Harris, who I don't recognize for much, plays Katrina, the wife.

Corbin Bernson, the great Corbin Bernson, plays Foster, the husband.

Brittany Ashton Holmes, who might not sound too familiar,

but she plays Amy, the daughter,

but she was Darla in that Little Rascals movie

that I'm pretty fond of.

I think it's funny still to this day.

Edie McClure shows up as Dr. Mary Ann Snow.

Robin Gamble shows up as Adam's father, I guess,

as Dr. Milton, you know,

a little Paradise Lost right there.

Oh, yeah.

And there's some other folks in this movie.

Not a big cast, though.

It's pretty isolated.

Pretty tight, yeah, pretty tight.

This is directed by and written by Victoria Muspratt,

who didn't do a ton, if I remember correctly.

I'm going to look real fast.

Directed, I think, either a remake or not,

Macon County Jail from 1997,

White Wolves 3 from 1993,

and apparently directed what we call Magic and Mischief from this year.

Didn't do a whole lot, though.

Quite a hiatus, though, isn't it?

Yeah, I know.

If you watch it, though, it's not so bad to where you wouldn't work again,

but I guess maybe it was a bad experience.

I don't know.

I'm sure there's not a lot of research done about this movie,

so we're going to talk about it right now.

Cameron, thoughts and possibly prayers about Inhumanoid,

a.k.a. Circuit Breaker.

Oh, well, geez.

Inhumanoid, a.k.a. Circuit Breaker, a.k.a. Roger Corman Presents Circuit Breaker.

I swore I had never seen this movie.

until you had suggested it.

I looked and I'm like, okay, this looks familiar.

And then I started to watch it.

I'm like, I'm pretty sure I've seen this,

but it was so, I'm just going to blow my load right here.

It was so lackluster in spots

that I feel like it was easily forgotten if I had seen it.

But it's really weird.

It's a mismatched kind of movie.

It crossbreeds genres or different tropes.

It's basically a healthy dose of, you know, the Terminator with a healthy dose of Dead Calm, you know, the George Miller joint.

And it's really weird.

It's very uneven.

I do like how it starts at the ending, so to speak, without blowing everything here right off the beginning.

It culminates in the adventure that it goes on with Adam, a.k.a. Richard Grieco, and his Andrew character.

But it's basically – it's a lot of dead calm.

I mean we're – Richard Grieco is playing the Billy Zane character and you got this Laura Harris playing the Nicole Kidman character who is like a troubled young lady who's –

I had a thing like because a note I made here at the beginning was motherfucking Edie McClure being all judgy with her like the fact that all former drug addicts are just horrible people, right?

And it's – I think it suffers from not having enough Edie McClure in it too.

I just – I find her to be a very calming presence in movies.

She's like a comfort food actor.

You see her and you're just like, oh, it's Edie.

But it does have a great cast.

The cast is pretty stacked for such a small, isolated, reservoir dogs kind of cast.

Not very many people in it.

But Corbin Bernson is being all Corbin, and Richard Rico is being suave for the rapey, rapey Adam Milton, I guess you could say.

Or do we just call him Adam at this point?

I'm not really sure.

Yeah, you just call him Adam.

It's very, very biblical in that sense.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, they did everything, but like I pulled out three ribs to make this motherfucker.

But yeah, I would say this is only recommending, only recommendable for somebody that is a hardcore sci-fi nerd like myself, because it's bad.

It's all sorts of bad, but it teeters on the edge of being so bad it's good.

So I have to kind of give it a pass.

Like I said, it's a little weird. It's a little out there.

But yeah, I have to admit, as bad as it was and as kind of lame as it was at some points, I don't know what this says about my tastes here, but I liked it.

It was horrible, and I loved it.

I mean, it has to do with Greco, right?

Because, you know, even in bad stuff, you know, he always had a certain charisma about him that could really carry a production like this.

I mean, if he watched stuff like it, if looks could kill, which, you know, it is a fun movie, but it's really stupid and it wouldn't work without Greco in it.

It just wouldn't.

I mean, this was the guy that replaced Johnny Depp on 121 Jump Street when he went to go be more famous in Hollywood.

They needed that face, and that face kind of stuck around and acted in genre cinema that really elevated what could have been a real piece of crap.

Right, right.

Like I was saying earlier, Richard Grieco feels like he's the only person really acting in this.

Him and Edie McClure.

Edie McClure feels like she's acting her ass off, but everybody else is – even Corbin Bernson, who does a permissible job.

But, like, everybody else just kind of feels like they're sort of sleepwalking through this one, if I'm making any sense there.

Oh, you are.

You are, because you've got Laura Harris as Katrina, the wife and mother.

She's playing this whole, oh, nobody believes in me because I was addicted to drugs.

So I'm just going to play this really dry and sort of care of my daughter but fucking resent her at the same time.

Because the reason, because in the hilarious scene of this movie,

I know Child Death isn't funny, but they don't show it or anything.

It's done tastefully.

I'll say it's done very tastefully.

It's done very tastefully.

Adam puts Amy, the little girl, inside this room or something.

She thinks they're playing.

But there's a giant spinning fan that keeps getting closer and closer.

And she's like, do it again, do it again.

And he's like, okay.

And then, of course, it gets close enough to murder her.

and you know the whole

her reaction to her daughter's

death is kind of like a

like an act

coming down in a way like yeah

I'm so emotionally gone from all these

drugs that I'm not doing

and you know which leads to

you know the sunset boulevard

beginning that this movie did not deserve

of the oh yeah she's on

drugs she fucking did it man

you know get her get her get her

you know right right

Our Devo slash paintball commandos that you see in the beginning of this movie, they're wearing Lego hats and pads and stuff.

Yeah, they look like fucking extras from a Devo music video.

Oh, man.

But yeah, it really works.

And you forgot to mention one thing that I thought of immediately when you find out Grieco's a robot and he's all horned up was Saturn 3.

It reminded me a lot of that.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it does.

If you don't know what that film is,

it's a film where, um,

who's, um,

who's the world-famous actor

that I'm blanking on?

Oh, Kirk Douglas?

Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett

invite a marooned

Harvey Keitel,

very dubbed in that movie,

and his special robot

on board, and

he transports his robot, his conscience

into this robot who's very

horny for Farrah Fawcett.

That's what this reminded me of.

This sentient

thing, you know, whose only

weakness is his horniness, apparently.

It plays really well in this movie.

Like, yeah, you know what? My only

weakness is girls that don't want to

fuck me. She's kind of like a toxic

male robot in a way.

Yeah, yeah.

So it was really strange

how rapey this thing was.

Like, yeah, you know what? I want sex

and I don't care how I get it.

and this woman has fucking strange dreams

about a fucking beast man

for no reason that goes nowhere in this plot.