THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 25: Project Metalbeast (1995)

25. A Horror Film That Has a Good Review on The Schlock Pit Website

I love The Schlock Pit so much, and if a movie is good enough for them, it’s good enough for me.

1974: Special ops soldier Donald Butler (John Marzilli) is inside an island castle where he finds a werewolf, which he soon kills with silver bullets, then takes some blood to create super soldiers along with Colonel Miller (Barry Bostwick). Nothing seems to work, so he injects himself with what’s left of the blood and soon goes crazy, murdering and sexually assaulting everyone in his path. Only three silver bullets to the heart from Miller stop him, and he’s frozen, stuck between life and death. 

Twenty years later, Anna De Carlo (Kim Delaney) and her team — Larry (Lance Slaughter), Roger (Tim Duquette) and Philip (Dean Scofield) — are working on ways to add metal allos to human skin. Miller offers them the bodies of his dead soldiers, and as you can guess, they operate on Butler. When they remove the bullets from his heart, he comes to life as an unstoppable metal werewolf.

How do you stop a metal wolf? With a silver bazooka.

Directed by Alessandro De Gaetano (UFO: Target Earth), who co-wrote it with Timothy E. Sabo (later director of the AVN Awards) and Roger Steinmann, this is the kind of movie I would get obsessed with when I rented it. It played a lot of cable and look out, Kane Hodder is the Metal Beast.

You can watch this on Tubi.

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