Hybrid

Plot synopsis:
It's an experiment in human behavior. It's an exploration of the most natural of animal impulses. It's something new under the moon. And it bites. When security dispatcher Aaron Scates is blinded in an explosion, he's put in the care of Dr. Andrea Hewlitt, famous in her field for spearheading extraordinary - though controversial - medical breakthroughs. Her newest is cross-species organ transplants, and Aaron is her first human subject. When a severely wounded wolf is brought to Dr. Hewlitt's office by museum curator Lydia Armstrong, Dr. Hewlitt leaps on the opportunity and successfully transplants the wolf's eyes to Aaron-despite Lydia's objections. Aaron, however, is thrilled. Not only can he see again, he can see in the dark. He also develops an unusually acute sense of hearing, and tears into a raw steak like never before. Unfortunately, he also begins to growl, and to target people as prey. Lydia knows why. Knowing Aaron is in danger - to himself and to others - Lydia confesses that she too is a cross-breed but has learned to channel her feral instincts into a source of strength, not violence, with the help of her shaman friend, Claude Robertson. After Lydia and Aaron explore their other animal instincts in the privacy of Lydia's lair, she takes him to Claude's for a rite-of-passage to integrate the young man's spirit with that of a wolf. But Dr. Hewitt's colleagues, who have seen Aaron's wilder side, are determined to hunt the beast down and destroy him. What they don't know is that Aaron has more on his side than a shaman and an empathetic girlfriend. He's made some new friends at the zoo. They travel in packs. And they don't need a full moon to commune.

Tags: pornographic, violence

Review:
Always turning a blind eye to the prospect of a new idea, director Fred Olen Ray gives us a remake of CREEPOZOIDS, itself a garden-variety ALIEN knock-off.
Here six post nuke survivors seek shelter from an upcoming "ion storm" in a (uh oh) seemingly abandoned scientific lab.
Despite finding a half-melted corpse, mysterious slime puddles and body parts lying around the group decide to spend the night and a mutant monster, supposedly a hybrid cockroach/snake (though it looks no different than the monsters usually found in these things) picks them off one by one.Now that we've established the fact there's no plot, the question remains...Is there anything good here?
Buxom blonde J.J. North and Brinke Stevens split up from the guys, go exploring, find a shower with warm water and hop in for a lets-toy-with-lesbianism shower romp, nevermind the fact they've already discovered a dead body.
Everyone else is awful, the violence is mostly offscreen and the monster design is terrible.Potential points of interest include a topless pin-up of Michelle Bauer, a publicity poster of Rush Limbaugh (?), extreme misuse of the busy Corman factory stock space FX and probably a record amount of time padding of characters walking down darkly lit corridors..
For those who enjoy cheesy b-grade horror Sci-Fi, Hybrid is a gold mine of goodies.The movie opens with a couple of minutes of what looks like footage from other sci-fi or disaster movies awkwardly spliced together with little to no attempt toward coherence.
Random shots of alien spaceships shooting at stuff in space, buildings and cars exploding, a few brief shots of some creature in armour shooting at the screen culminates in a stock shot of a nuclear explosion.
None of the footage matches at all, the grain and film is different in each shot, some of it is in broad daylight, some of it is at night, some of its is clearly meant to be in deep space.
None of the dialogue in the rest of the movie is that helpful- it would seem to indicate some kind of nuclear war but the aliens seen in this prologue are never mentioned and there is even mention of natural disaster at one point.
Possibly the makers didn't know what footage they could get their hands on for the opening whilst writing the script and decided to hedge their bets.
I love the fact the title of the movie is in that green blocky computerised type of font that may have looked so cool and futuristic in the seventies (This movie being made in the late nineties).After a comically bad and short second opening in which some marine types are killed by some unseen creature the movie proper begins.
A ragtag group of scientists and military types travelling across a blasted post apocalyptic war zone (a nice cost effective desert) take shelter from a killer ion storm inside an abandoned scientific research facility.
In this case it is apparently a cross between human, reptile and cockroach, although it looks like none of the above and I see good reasons for this particular combination beyond those of the "WTF, why not, we're bored and have access to gene splicing technology" variety.
It in fact looks like a dude in a really, really fake and rubbery looking 'Alien' rip-off monster costume with a stupidly long neck.
The makers wisely only show bits of the creature from time to time- every few minutes there is a standard POV shot of the creature roaming the corridors followed by a shot its snarling teeth which may remind you of the snarling drooling teeth of another well known alien creature.In its relatively short running time Hybrid has almost everything you could want from this kind of trashy pic- a rubbery fake looking alien, cheesy dialogue, gratuitous sex scenes, bad acting, clichés, impromptu and lengthy lesbian shower sequences, fake gore, lots of cheap props and sets, more bad dialogue and acting, creatures beating incessantly on doors, technobabble, alien rape, slime, gratuitous stock footage, loose endings and bad soap operatic back stories.
Stay watching till the end of the credits which make it clear that the makers of Hybrid were had no illusions as to the kind of film they were making..
Hybrid is another sublime slice of Fred Olen Ray madness.
I love just about every film that Fred has ever made but Hybrid is especially memorable.
Few directors can claim to have as unique a vision as Fred Olen Ray and this film is a perfect example of that twisted outlook.
Hybrid plays like a cross between "Alien" and "Emmanuelle", only without the special effects of the former or the arty pretensions of the latter.
This film is wonderfully trashy and a must see for fans of this brilliant director.The action begins with a preposterous looking creature chewing up a couple of scientists.
Right from the opening scene it is apparent that Fred has not lost his sense of humour.
The creature looks like a bad Halloween costume and the gore effects are as unconvincing as ever.
This is when Hybrid begins to rip off "Alien" in earnest and Fred Olen Ray really hits his stride.The crew find the laboratory abandoned and quickly discover through a series of hilarious revelations that the scientists were experimenting on humans and succeeded in creating a homicidal cockroach/human hybrid.
Instead of leaving as quickly as possible, this crew of dunces decides to spend the night at the facility - only to learn that the hybrid is not only alive but also hungry and horny.
In other words, Fred Olen Ray serves up a large serving of quality entertainment.The sex scenes in Hybrid are particularly amusing.
A perfect example of Fred's unique approach to plot and character occurs when Dr Leslie, played by horror icon Brinke Stevens, and Nurse Carla, JJ North of "Hellblock 13" fame, decide to freshen up - by showering together.
This scene would look cheesy in a 1980s porno but somehow nurse Carla's very thorough check-up routine works here.
Just when I thought Fred had reached a dizzying new height, Dr Leslie takes a sleeping pill and is molested by the creature in a scene that puts Sigourney's cross-species flirt in "Alien Resurrection" well and truly into perspective.The technical aspects of Hybrid are pretty terrible.
I don't watch Fred Olen Ray movies for technical virtuosity but for his outrageous imagination and unswerving dedication to bad taste.
Tim Abell has gone on to bigger and better things and somehow makes it through Hybrid with his dignity intact.
I'm disappointed that she has dropped off the acting radar after a promising string of wonderful Z-grade movies.Fred Olen Ray's hypnotic brand of crap is an acquired taste but once you get it, there is no going back.
Hybrid has everything a B-movie should have in spades - poor effects, gore, gratuitous nudity and a rapist alien.
this movie opens up with multiple segments of other movies strung together, i mean what the???the acting in this movie is just terrible, the dialogue is that bad its laughable, like using the word besides three times to start a sentence in one segment.this movie seems to try to redeem itself with random skin scenes that don't do too well at it.there is cheap gore and a funny soundtrack.
i understand its a b grade movie, but thats no excuse for how bad it is.
an alien made of a really bad fake rubbersuit which makes you laugh every time you see it.
the alien's noise is so terrible to listen to.i give it a five only because that its laughable, and watching this movie with a bunch of mates makes watching this movie a funny experience..
More cheap inanity from Fred Olen Ray. This one's a blatant rip-off of ALIEN, except made without an ounce of that film's creativity or technical prowess.
Instead, Ray opts for plenty of softcore padding, including lesbian shower scenes and the like, and a whole lot of bad acting.HYBRID is a film for fans of Z-grade movies only.
The casting is very poor, as is always the case in his films, and even seasoned performers like Brinke Stevens don't appear to have got any better over the years.
John Blyth Barrymore (half-brother of Drew) makes an appearance and Robert Quarry has a cameo, but most of the screen time goes to buxom blonde starlet J.
J. North, who let's just say won't be bothering the likes of Kate Winslet in the best acting stakes anytime soon.Elsewhere, HYBRID features a whole lot of dumb talk, a rubbishy man in a monster suit running around, and not a great deal of violence.
Instead, we get stock footage from previous B-movies, and an overwhelming sense of deja vu which sets in after about ten minutes..
A cheap, inept alien rip-off which has the obligatory nude scenes to appeal to the men!
Poor special effects mean that you barely even see the monster and the most shocking acting known to man makes the people on Dawsons creek seem like great actors!
They grabbed catch phrases from other movies and strung them together so it sounded like they knew what they were doing.
At times the plot forgot where it was going, and put on little porn shows.
While I do love a good B movie, this one didn't make the cut..
A group of survivors travelling across the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Earth in the far future seek shelter in an abandoned military installation.
Led by McQueen, a heroic drifter, the survivors discover that the installation was the setting for an experiment where a human was infused with alien, snake & cockroach DNA, causing uncontrollable mutation.
The creature then emerges from the shadows to attack the survivors.Ever since he served as DOP on the low-budget zombie flick SHOCK WAVES, Fred Olen Ray has carved out his own unique niche.
All he does is make low-budget sci-fi, action & horror films.While Olen Ray's films cannot compete with their bigger-budgeted rivals, his films do feature an odd-ball sense of humour.
"Hybrid" is as typical as Olen Ray's work gets.
The film is an extremely cheap rip-off of ALIEN, so cheap that it steals scenes from other Olen Ray films (such as DROID GUNNER & STAR HUNTER), using them for the film's start to depict some kind of apocalypse (which admittedly doesn't work very well) as well as use props from bigger-budgeted films, such as the Landmaster vehicle from the likes of DAMNATION ALLEY & APEX.While it is a cheap rip-off, "Hybrid" does prove to be quite entertaining.
The actors know they are starring in a low-budget film & act accordingly.
The visual effects are very cheap, with the monster being a rather poor man-in-suit creation that is so bad I ended up laughing – but that's the film's purpose.
Not to mention the fact that Olen Ray throws in a completely superfluous soft-core porn shower scene where the two women rub each other with soap..
Earth is in a post-apocalyptic state and five military survivors looking for shelter before an ion storm hits.
As they come across a messed up dead corpse and find out this is the home of a genetic alien hybrid.Yes, what incompetent schlock.
I got some good wink-eye through Fred Olen Ray's poor man's version of "Alien" crossed with "Creepozoids" and a dash of "Shadowzone".
It was re-used stock footage to confusingly explain why Earth looked like apocalyptic wasteland.
An out-of-nowhere shower scene involving the voluptuous J.J. North and the always dashing Brinke Stevens, decide to spice up the outing by making sure that they are thoroughly cleaned for the messy onslaught that waits and then you get the horny alien hybrid getting its groove on with one of its victims.
Even the camera shots (lot of POV shots) steal heavily from "Alien", where it likes to focus on the creature's nasty looking mouth and gooey slime it leaves about.
Hell, she's lame at porn too.Tim Abell is in the movie, though.
Man looks so ridiculously normal compared to others it's almost like he's at the wrong set.
I did enjoy the rubber alien-thingy, a good laugh..
The name "Hybrid" is certainly apt, since this film is indeed a mix of all that has come before, with not a single original thought in its head.
But it deserves mention for actually being spoofed dead on in another film I watched, "Dr. Horror's House of Idiots".
No surprise here, as "Hybrid" star Brinke Stevens wrote the spoof :) She must have had fun getting even!Best thing in film is seeing what appears to be extra stock footage from "Damnation Alley" Dig that crazy truck!Even though "House of Idiots" is funny on purpose and "Hybrid" by accident, both films should be in a double-bill..
Wow I saw this movie when it first came out and in a way it introduced me to Lesbian Softcore Porno (I was only like 14).
In full extent this movie is Lesbian soft-core porno gone wrong, it has shower scenes of girls washing each other and deals with the monster wanting to impregnate one of the ladies.If that is your cup of tea then dig in because I was expecting something more than Barney Goes Wild.
I really got more than I bargained for in "Hybrid," and I mean that in a positive AND negative way.On the plus side, this was an enjoyable altered-human-run-amok film.
I categorize "Hybrid" with other bad monster movies, all of which are enjoyable in their lameness (except those rare few that are just plain bad).
"Hybrid" actually makes an attempt at plot, and it succeeds somewhat.
A lot of times the characters will reference events or something that happened in the history of the world they're on (I'm assuming it was Earth), and somehow I felt as if they just expected me to know what they were talking about.
"Hybrid" also utilizes the "drool factor" to give warning of the creature's presence, an over-used device, but I'm not complaining.There is one reason I probably wouldn't recommend "Hybrid." Sandwiched between normal B-movie fun are two-and-a-half scenes of what could be classified as porn.
Newer B-movies use nudity and sex in moderation, but "Hybrid" doesn't even attempt to moderate OR apply some sense of taste to it.
This aspect of "Hybrid" completely ruined what is otherwise a decent film.Don't rent this one if kids will be watching it!!!
Other than that, I would recommend "Hybrid" to anybody who can take monster movies with a grain of salt.
Even with the intermittent porn, this movie really gave me a good laugh.
For a sci-fi b-movie, this is actually pretty decent.
It stars a number of well-known b-movie actors, and the script isn't quite as bad as you might expect.
Some funny lines and good performances by most of the leads also help the film.
However, it still isn't a very good film.
In other words, unless you're a b-movie buff, don't waste your time..
There is for a shared shower scene between the two lead females (one of which is the lovely Brinke Stevens.) There is also a little soft porn between the secondary female character and the lead guy.
Plot outline:A genetic experiment gone wrong hunts down the members of the expedition who were trapped during an "ion" storm.The monster undresses an unconscious Brinke and rapes her.
It is suggested that Brinke now carries a child of this monster near the end of the film.
*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*Brinke Stevens and a bunch of other people are driving through the desert looking for a place to crash and take a shower.
This makes Brinke Stevens all hot and sweaty.
MMMM..."Brinke Stevens shower in space is the best and ONLY reason to see this movie.
The rest of the flick was a standard B monster movie.
But the shower scene was excellent.
My God, there should be a shower scene in every movie.
Firstly, please dont expect too much from this film, because if you do, you will shortly come to realise that it is gut-shreddingly awful.However, if you just watch Hybrid for what it is, it can be a very entertaining hour and a half...The plot is crap and unoriginal - a mish mash band of survivors in a post-apocolyptic world (presumably Earth) are making their way through the desert, when their vehicle breaks down and they have to find shelter from an incoming 'ion storm' - whatever one of those is, and are fortunate enough to come across an abandoned research facility!!Of course, within the laboratory, are no signs of life, and there just so happens to be a monster on the loose, (which is, rather hilariously part human, part snake, and part cockroach!), which begins to pick off our little friends one bye one...Fair enough, it sounds mince, but for reasons I cant explain even to myself, this is one of my most frequently watched movies - and that is not because it is a low budget b-movie, and thus contains gore and naked breasts...I think the main reason I like this film is because it really comes across as the type of movie you could make yourself with your mates - though not quite to the extent of Kevin Smiths 'Clerks' of course.
I admire the simplicity of the movie, the tiny cast, (no extras required), and the fact that, though unintentional, the film is without a doubt, a comic masterpiece!Some of the lines are delivered so badly, that you cannot help but wet yourself.
There is nothing funnier than when a film that is based on being totally ridiculous, tries to install genuine emotions and atmosphere within the fabric, when it just comes off as badly acted crap - which it is!Nonetheless, i reiterate that Hybrid is very entertaining, and should keep any viewer, (excluding, like, old people) happy to the end (which is crap).A solid 8 out of 10!