Review – The Manster

Like “black,” there’s something about “man” mashed awkwardly into another word that tells you everything you need to know about a movie before you even see it. A journalist (Peter Dyneley, better known for doing one of the voices in the Thunderbirds series) visits a remote country house to interview a mad scientist and ends up with an injection of Manster juice for his trouble. I’m not sure what the stuff was supposed to do, but it makes him cranky, then it makes him horny, then it makes him homicidal, then it grows a gorilla head on his right shoulder. Hopes of continuing to conceal his condition thus dashed, he goes on a killing spree with police hot on his trail. Though this is a half a step above genuinely abysmally dreadful movies, it still manages a hefty load of stink. See if desperate