Yeah, it shreds its victims. It also spits acidic slime at them...kind of like Kamala. But more importantly, it captures babes in the desert and breeds with them. This film was originally released 10 years ago, but is now re-released with additional footage. With a cool monster (Dio Johnson), our film today is a metaphor for the disintegration of any integrity that is left in today's TV media. Today we look at "Cold Blooded," directed by Alexander T. Hwang.
Men and women have been disppearing in a certain section of the California desert for the past 25 years. As our film begins the lovely Sarah (Destiny Dawn Osmialowski) and her BF Alfonso (Noel Gugliemi) are shredded, or carried off in Sarah's case, by a monster. A news crew is sent into the desert to do a story on this latest, and all other, disappearances. Kelly (Darri Kristin) is the info-babe doing the story. Uh oh...catfight alert, she is replaced by an info-babe who is sleeping with the boss, Brittney (Ashley Forte). Now Kelly gets to be Brittney's gopher. Blake (Raymond Vinsik Williams) is the cameraman and Kelly's BF. Charles (Omari Washington), the intern is also along. The crew finds body parts and end up at the dilapidated ranch of hermit Herman (Gabriel Lane). He's a hoot. As they try to get info out of the hermit, a teaching assistant and her three students are shredded by the creature nearby. Actually, the TA Sandy (Jami McCoy) and her female student are...hauled away.
Brittney and Kelly are incapable of getting along. Charles and Blake eagerly await the catfight. The creature eats his way toward Herman's acre. Meanwhile we get to see the creature and it is a good one. An unconventional lizard minster, no doubt, but its proclivity to spit an acidic green ooze at its victims is such a beautiful thing to see. We'll stop the plot description here. What happens next is something Roger Corman and Max Gunssler would be proud of.
Will any of the sultry info-babes survive to the end credits? Will any of the hauled away babes give birth to a new generation of lizard monsters? I know, this question has been asked by us many times in the last few days. Finally, why when grotesque monsters are pitted up against news crews from TV stations do we cheer for the monsters? The news this summer is grotesque and silly...which makes "Cold Blooded" a perfect film to accompany today's headlines.
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