| Boltneck | |
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| Directed by | Mitch Marcus |
| Written by | Dave Payne |
| Produced by | Paul Colichman Mark R. Harris |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Russ Brandt |
| Edited by | Stan Cole Daniel H. Holland |
| Music by | Roger Neill |
| Distributed by | Pioneer Entertainment Regent Entertainment |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Boltneck (also released asBig Monster on Campus andTeen Monster) is a 1998 Americanteencomedy horror film directed by Mitch Marcus and starringMatthew Lawrence,Ryan Reynolds,Justin Walker, andChristine Lakin.[1] The film is a modernfilm adaptation of the classicMary ShelleynovelFrankenstein. Matthew Lawrence plays high-schooler Frank Stein who reanimates a fellow student using the brain of a criminal by mistake. The film was releasedstraight-to-video.
Los Angeles. Frank is a high school student obsessed with heavy electron resurrection (reanimating corpses soon after death). One night Frank’s neighbor and fellow student Lance throws a party and as a joke invites Karl, an outsider in school. When Karl shows up, however, he gets into a fight with Lance and Tuttle and dies after falling into an empty swimming pool. Frank sees Lance and Tuttle attempting to dump the body and offers to reanimate the corpse for them. Stealing a brain from his father’s lab, Frank successfully resurrects Karl and returns him home.
The next day Frank is befriended by Lance and Tuttle, and Karl appears to be changed into a cool kid in school. Frank, suspicious of Karl’s personality change, discovers that the brain he used was that of a murderer named Skeeter Wayne Dobbs. Revealing this to Karl, Karl and Frank agree to keep this a secret from the others. Karl then helps Frank to get a date with his crush Macy by throwing a party using money stolen from the homecoming dance. At the dance Karl beats up Lance and Tuttle and leaves with Andrea who soon goes missing. Realizing Karl has stolen the homecoming money and potentially murdered Andrea, Frank confronts Karl, who dismisses his concerns and invites him to a Halloween party that night. Macy, thinking Frank stole the money, breaks up with him and goes to the party alone.
At the party Karl accosts Macy who runs to the backyard and discovers that Andrea was not murdered, but rather had been secretly getting breast implants. Lance, Tuttle, and Frank fight with Karl, who attempts to murder Tuttle, but fails. Karl then chases Frank upstairs, but is ambushed and incapacitated. Frank then removes the evil brain using a prop guillotine at the party. Transporting Karl’s corpse back to the laboratory, his father helps him reanimate Karl using his original brain. The next day the homecoming money is returned to school, Karl has his original personality restored, and Frank makes up with Macy.
A review by Horror Society gave the film a 3 out of 5.[2]
In a 2018 advertising campaign forDeadpool 2 featuringDavid Beckham, Ryan Reynolds (dressed asDeadpool) is seen apologizing for Reynolds' critical and commercial flops, includingGreen Lantern,R.I.P.D.,Self/less andBlade: Trinity. When Beckham attempts to addBoltneck to this list, Deadpool is offended, proclaiming it "a masterpiece".[3][4]