Le Cerveau atomique

The intention to make the best sci-fi horror film possible is evident but futile. There's the occasional Hitchcock rip-off, with the camera taking interesting angles and shots, and at times it's unintentionally funny. Without exception, the actors are all terrible, the actresses who play the victims of the mad scientist and his employer have terrible accents, you won't believe them at all, and the werewolf is rather laughable. Production-wise, it's no big deal, because 95% of the time we don't leave the location of one house where the human duplication lab is and where everything important happens. Mascelli often fails to lead the actors and they play like in a small town amateur theatre, which is probably my biggest complaint. One of the victims is supposed to play a woman with a cat brain, so she adopts cat-like behavior and gesticulation, but instead of a cat woman, she comes across as high. The story isn't completely stupid, it's a classic horror plot, but the film has no charisma, it's a failed and unentertaining B-movie – with terrible music as an unsolicited bonus. (06/09/2016)