Primal Rage ( Rage, furia primitiva )

Primal Rage (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rage, furia primitiva
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( DTS 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1988 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Vittorio Rambaldi

Written By:
Umberto Lenzi

Actors:
Patrick Lowe ..... Sam Nash
Cheryl Arutt ..... Lauren Daly
Sarah Buxton ..... Debbie
Mitch Watson ..... Frank Duffy
Bo Svenson ..... Ethridge
Doug Sloan ..... Lovejoy
Luis Valderrama ..... Chat
John Baldwin ..... Bryan
Turk Harley ..... Prof. Jenkins
Jennifer Hingel ..... Kimberly
Barry Schreiber ..... Oakley
Paul Bridges Thompson ..... Lab Assistant
Sally Carlson ..... Nurse
Greg Schmidt ..... Sam's roommate
Mal Jones ..... Janitor

Synopsis:

At an all-American college, intrepid school reporters Sam (Lowe, brother of Rob and Chad) and Frank (Watson) are looking for the next big story. Meanwhile Sam's girlfriend, Lauren (Arutt), is trying to set up Frank with her best friend and roomie, Debbie (Buxton), who's really chipper now that she just got an abortion. Unfortunately these romantic plans go south when Frank decides to investigate some shady experiments being conducted at the science lab on campus under the supervision of Ethridge (Svenson) and, while breaking in one night, releases a baboon that scratches him and promptly gets killed by a car. Frank's wound gets increasingly grisly as he exhibits increased signs of strength and aggressiveness, leading to a harrowing night in which he kills a police officer. The man-made contagion quickly spreads to Lauren who in turn scratches three meathead jocks who try to rape her in their strobelight-filled dorm room. Now the rage virus threatens to infect the entire campus, just in time for the big Halloween dance...

The newspaper at the University of Florida has been trying to get an animal cruelty story on the privately-funded work of Professor Ethridge (Bo Svenson). The experimental baboon has a violent reaction to the experimental drug Ethridge has been using to regenerate cells. Sensationalistic editor Duffy (Mitch Watson) breaks into the lab and is bitten by the crazed baboon that escapes and is promptly hit by a police car. Infected, Duffy bites Debbie (Sarah Buxton, who also starred in WELCOME TO SPRING BREAK/NIGHTMARE BEACH directed by Umberto Lenzi who scripted this film) before going on a violent rampage. After being forced to shoot a crazed Duffy, his photojournalism major friend Sam (Patrick Lowe) and Debbie's roommate Lauren (Cheryl Arutt) team up with Ethridge to try to save Debbie who has since infected three frat guys who tried to rape her. Debbie escapes from Ethridge and while Sam and Lauren try to find her, they also have to contend with the three frat guys who are are mutilating their way through the costumed extras at the Halloween Dance (showcasing a live performance of the film's theme song by The Facade Band just in case you wanted to hear it again). An Italian production shot in Florida (and shot at the same time as WELCOME TO SPRING BREAK/NIGHTMARE BEACH with which it also shares a Claudio Simonetti soundtrack and a cheesy Greg Bonham-penned theme song), PRIMAL RAGE is a somewhat entertaining piece of late eighties Italian horror; less gory than other Italian horrors but gorier than American genre entries of the time. The detached Svenson performance and the competent lead performances are to the detriment of the film but it has in its favor Carlo Rambaldi (E.T.) animatronics, gore (courtesy of Rambaldi's other son Alex), and some truly horrid supporting performances (notably the 3 rape-happy frat guys). Besides the familiar Simonetti synth score and credits vocal 'Say the Word', the soundtrack also features two heavy metal tracks previously used in Dario Argento's OPERA and the Simonetti-produced disco single 'Love is My Mania' by The Fast Food Girls.

A scientist at a Florida university inadvertantly creates a 'rage virus' while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 January, 2012.

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