"All Mutants are not created Equal" the cover of this movie proclaims. Transmutations was Clive Barker's initial attempt at writing for film. The movie released in 1986 was an Empire Pictures production and released by Vestron Video. "Dr Savary (Denholm Elliot), a sinister biochemist, has created a subhuman species who dwell in the vast networks of the city's underground. Addicted to the ecstasy of Savary's mind-expanding drug, they also suffer from a ghastly side-effect --- total and grotesque disfigurement!" Transmutations was directed by George Pavlou and produced by Kevin Attew and Don Hawkins. Though the movie does |
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boast such stars (in their early years) as Denholm Elliot and Miranda Richardson, it lacks in story development. Clive has often joked that the producers for the movie hired him to write a horror movie, only to turn about after the script was delivered to ask for a "Rock video" type of movie. The early movies Clive scripted lost some of their luster, thus driving Clive to direct "Hellraiser" himself. | |
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Cast |
|
Stephen Berkoff |
- Hugo Motherskille |
Nicola Cowper |
- Nicole |
Denholm Elliott |
- Dr. Savary |
Lamb |
- Roy Bain |
Malik |
- Fluke |
Ingrid Pitt |
- Pepperdine |
Miranda Richardson |
- Oriel |
Irina Brook |
- Bianca |
Paul Brown |
- Nygaard |
Brian Croucher |
- Darling |
Philip Davis |
- Lazarus |
Paul Mari |
- Dudu |
Gary Olsen |
- Red Dog |
Trevor Thomas |
- Ricardo |
Production Team |
|
Kevin Attew |
- Producer |
Clive Barker |
- Screenwriter |
James Caplin |
- Screenwriter |
Graham Ford |
- Producer |
Freur |
- Music |
Don Hawkins |
- Producer |
Len Huntingford |
- Set Decoration |
Sydney Macartney |
- Cinematographer |
George Pavlou |
- Director |
Richard Perkis |
- Special Effects |
Chris Ridsdale |
- Film Editor |
For only those Clive fans with very strongest of hearts and the mind to not judge the man by the foul attempts
of others. Warning I thought I could handle watching this film and ended up with a severe headache after 25 minutes.
It is that bad!