Boltneck

Boltneck is a 2000 American horror comedy film directed by Mitch Marcus and starring Matthew Lawrence, Justin Walker and Christine Lakin.  Also released as Big Monster on Campus.  The film is a modern film adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein.  Matthew Lawrence plays high-schooler Frank Stein who reanimates a fellow student using the brain of a criminal by mistake.  The film was released straight-to-video. 

Plot 

Los Angeles.  The season of El Niño.  Frank (Matthew Lawrence) is a high school student obsessed with heavy electron resurrection (reanimating corpses soon after death).  One night Frank’s neighbor and fellow student Lance (Justin Walker) throws a party and as a joke invites Karl (Ryan Reynolds), an outsider in school.  When Karl shows up, however, he gets into a fight with Lance and Tuttle (Christian Payne) and dies after falling into an empty swimming pool.  Frank sees Lance and Tuttle attempting to dump the body and offers to reanimate the corpse for them.  Stealing a brain from his father’s (Judge Reinhold) lab, Frank successfully resurrects Karl and returns him home. 

The next day Frank is befriended by Lance and Tuttle, and Karl appears to be changed into a cool kid in school.  Frank, suspicious of Karl’s personality change, discovers that the brain he used was that of a murderer named Skeeter Wayne Dobbs.  Revealing this to Karl, Karl and Frank agree to keep this a secret from the others.  Karl then helps Frank to get a date with his crush Macy (Christine Lakin) by throwing a party using money stolen from the homecoming dance.  At the dance Karl beats up Lance and Tuttle and leaves with Andrea (Nicole Nieth) who soon goes missing.  Realizing Karl has stolen the homecoming money and potentially murdered Andrea, Frank confronts Karl who dismisses his concerns and invites him to a Halloween party that night.  Macy, thinking Frank stole the money, breaks up with him and goes to the party alone. 

At the party Karl accosts Macy who runs to the backyard and discovers that Andrea was not murdered, but rather had been secretly getting breast implants.  Lance, Tuttle, and Frank fight with Karl who attempts to murder Tuttle, but fails.  Karl then chases Frank upstairs, but is ambushed and incapacitated.  Frank then removes the evil brain using a prop guillotine at the party.  Transporting Karl’s corpse back to the laboratory, his father helps him reanimate Karl using his original brain.  The next day the homecoming money is returned to school, Karl has his original personality restored, and Frank makes up with Macy. 

Cast 

Matthew Lawrence as Frank Stein
Justin Walker as Lance Kipple
Christine Lakin as Macy
Christian Payne as Tuttle
Shelley Duvall as Mrs. Stein
Richard Moll as Mr. O'Reilly
Charles Fleischer as Mr. Stockton
Kenny Blank as Jordy
Bianca Lawson as Darien Stompanato
Ryan Reynolds as Karl O'Reilly
Judge Reinhold as Mr. Stein
Nicole Nieth as Andrea Shrelonzky
Brad Lesley as Arnie
Eric Siegel as Officer Scott
Richard Speight Jr. as Comic Book Salesman

Reception 

A review by Horror Society gave it a 3 out of 5. 

In popular culture 

In a 2018 advertising campaign for Deadpool 2 featuring David Beckham, Ryan Reynolds (dressed as Deadpool) is seen apologizing for Reynolds' critical and commercial flops (including Green Lantern, R.I.P.D., Self/less and Blade: Trinity).  Deadpool is offended to hear Boltneck mentioned in this list, proclaiming it "a masterpiece". 

References

External links 

Category:2000 films
Category:American films
Category:English-language films
Category:2000s comedy horror films
Category:Frankenstein films