Tubi Thursday: Primal Scream (1987)

 No connection to Wes Craven...or that 1981 Film of the same name.  

If you want to see Sci-Fi on a TIGHT Budget (that took 4 years to make), this is...

The Film begins with the Ending, just like Sunset Boulevard.

Unlike that Film, everything else.

Seriously though, we get this Detective who exposits about how someone mined a substance called 'Hellfire' from Space in 1993, but there were protests.

He gets dragged into the Story that involves uncovering the secret of Hellfire.

The secret- it kills you.

Thanks, we already knew that.

That's about it.

People sometimes die in halfway-decent Practical Effects.
They show spaceships that only 'fly' when someone is holding the back (they don't show the back while it 'flies.')

This Poster...is a bit of a lie.

On the plus side, this was called a more accurate Title...overseas.

Does anyone make a Primal Scream once?
Nope.

Do I have anything else to say?
Nope.

Primal Scream isn't much to write about.  It tries to be Noir.  It tries to be Sci-Fi.  It tries to be a big Conspiracy Film.

It's...just not interesting.  It's not terrible...but it sure doesn't do much to impress.  The Acting is alright, but not great.  The Music is about what you'd get if you left a keyboard out in one of those Rooms full of Cats that people watch on YouTube.

It is still better than Rollergator though.

A few decent bits of people dying via the Hell Fire and turning into 'cigarette butts' (as one Character puts it) elevate this a bit.  That said, there are enough really bad and/or intentionally-vague Special Effects shots too.

The Director never made another Film after this...except for a Documentary in 2018 about how he made this one.  Sounds about right.

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