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Staring:
Tim Donnelly,
Paulette Breen,
Dick Sargent,
Keenan Wynn,
David Hooks
Director:
Robert S. Fiveson
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $10.16
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0843276011291
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Mondo Macabre
Manufacturer: Mondo Macabre
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Mondo Macabre
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-03-29
Running Time: 90
Studio: Mondo Macabre
Theatrical Release Date: 1979-08 |
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Description
Somewhere in California is a secret industrial complex. Apparently well know to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones! These clones are identical replicas of members of the top 500 of politics and big business. Raised to adulthood, they are then frozen and cryogenically stored so that their body parts can be used to give more or less eternal life to the chosen elite. The plan is to keep these clones in a state of almost childlike innocence and deny them any knowledge of the real world outside. They are brainwashed with dreams of a mythical place called "America" where (so they are told) they will go if they are lucky enougb to be selected. A series of unplanned accidents leads to one of the clones finding out too much and becoming curious. One day he escapes from the clone farm and comes looking for answers in the "real" America... EXTRAS:
A 40 minute in depth interview with film's director, discussing his career to date and the making of CLONUS The film's theatrical trailer A feature length audio commentary with the film's director Newly remastered from original negative in hi def anamorphic
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Not the real deal., 2008-09-17
This was a remake of the original. This one was amateurish and did not have the impact of the original. I was disappointed.
Can this really happen?, 2009-08-26
Ever since watching The Clonus Horror in the early 1980s (with my young son) I've talked about it but nobody except my son and I were familiar with this movie. I was thrilled to find it on Amazon, not only so my son and I could watch, perhaps laugh at things we then found frightening, but so I could share it with friends. The film's premise is wealthy, powerful people have clones of varying ages so when they're in need of an organ one is readily available. With scientific and medical advances it makes one wonder if this could ever become a reality.
Why buy this version..., 2009-08-24
When for just (lots and lots and lots) of pennies more, you can buy Myster Science Theater 3000, Volume 12, which includes an AWESOME riff on the very same movie? The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror) It makes the movie watchable and re-watchable.
BTW, Michael Bay's movie "The Island" was a total ripoff of "Parts: The Clonus Horror," with some varying bits of other better sci-fi movies as well. Dreamworks eventually reached a 7-figure settlement with the creators of "Parts."
Clonus Horror enjoyable, 2007-07-13
A great retro 70's horror movie, special effects a little cheesy but an interesting story. Tim Donnelly was good in this role - felt very sorry for his character!
Very Dated View of An Issue Rising in Importance, 2007-01-10
This VERY 70's movie is about a race of cloned beings that are kept docile in a private clone farm. The purpose of the clone farm is to serve people classified as "important" by creating clones of them to use as organ donors. The poor clones have no idea of what's going on. They don't know that they're organ donors. Heck, they don't even know that they're clones. When the owners of the clone farm need a vital organ in a hurry, they give the clone a quick party and say, "We're going to send you to America today." Then the clone is slaughtered.
All the clones want to go to America because they're taught from birth that America is a great place. Of course, none of the clone farm workers makes an effort to inform the clones that the farm is already located IN America. To keep the clones from getting suspicious of the truth, lobotomies are given to each and every clone on the farm shortly after creation. Despite such precautions, one clone, Richard, tries his darndest to discover what America is.
Parts: The Clonus Horror succeeds in showing the potentiality of losing ethical values when pushing scientific methods to extend life, and, although it tackles this issue wonderfully, it has a made-for-TV look that I just can't shake off. No wonder the film was chosen as fodder for one of the MST3K episodes. You can either use it as an ethical study guide or just something to ridicule, and it works either way. Interesting...
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