Subject 3 (Wil Wheaton) has been made by Dr. Rue Wakeman (Rutger Hauer) from the bodies of several people as part of some wild experiment. He’s given a Bible to read and names himself Lazarus, has dreams of his past bodies that he tries to explain to Dr. Elizabeth English (Nia Peeples) and wonders why he has so many of the thoughts of Dr. Frederick Texarian (Ron Perlman).

Directed and written by Roger Avary, this was a SyFy pilot that became a TV movie for the channel. It wasn’t without issues, as Hauer threw away the script and refused to do any scenes from it, improvising all of his dialogue. This meant that Avary had to rewrite his movie to match whatever Hauer did. Avary told Entertainment Weekly, “Mr. Stitch was a nightmare to make. Nobody ever knew the movie Rutger was making. I collaborated with him as much as any human should allow himself to.”

What ended up in the movie is pretty good, thanks to Tom Savini effects, Ron Jeremy as a cop (it was the 90s) and Taylor Negron making me miss how he could take any film and make it better.

You can watch this on YouTube.