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A group of rival collectors of severely deformed freakish human beings and the FBI agents that are investigating them must battle against some of their collections which aren't as dead as they seem...

Full Moon makes cheap movies, often involving puppets and often with gratuitous nudity. This movie is clearly cheap, but there are no puppets and even the nudity seems okay because it is done in a humorous manner. This is not a "good" film, but compared to just about everything else Charlie Band has touched, it is actually alright.

Now, not that I would recommend this, but if it happens to be on or turn up on your Netflix queue, and you have a few friends and a case of beer, you could do worse than this. At least it's not "The Dead Want Women".

A sewage treatment plant clean-up crew (where do I sign up?!) fish out a red glob "specimen," which turns out to be more than just worthless sludge, but an invaluable formula capable of reviving mutant creatures. What it's doing in the sewer is anyone's guess. After it's stolen by eccentric, unorthodox Dr. Lorca (Michael Citriniti) and his sexy, blonde always topless assistant Sheila (Jacqueline Lovell), the "owners" hire a private detective to get it back. Above characters (plus a ditsy secretary) become trapped inside Lorca's castle home and face off against four bite-size mutant monsters who attack and start killing because they want their independence (!)

Although the little killers will instantly bring to mind Band's Full Moon PUPPET MASTER series, this silly, but very fun, time waster has decent production values, cute slimy puppet monsters and a decent unknown cast (Tracie May and Lovell are especially good). Although Band has fallen into a pit of mini-monster reptitiveness, he has improved as a scriptwriter, and the witty, sarcastic and often very funny dialogue in this film proves it.

This is not a real review, it should be understood more as a collection of impressions on the film.

At the basis of this film there is clearly a great desire to make a light comedy with hideous out-of-this-world creatures that create quite a bit of disgust, but in any case it is a comedy and therefore makes you laugh in many parts, especially due to the absolute absurdity of the majority of the scenes which are exaggerated on purpose to generate hilarity in the viewer. So as a horror it is completely to be thrown away but as a comedy it is really cute and entertaining and therefore in my opinion it is a bit underrated, that is, its rating is too low because even if the film is not a masterpiece it still deserves something just to be entertained and funny .

HIDEOUS! is another classic from the heyday of Director Charles Band's FULL MOON productions. It has all the right ingredients, including an opening that features two men skimming a huge raw sewage vat for "artifacts"! The fiendish Dr. Lorca (Michael Citriniti) is a collector of such "treasures", and will pay any price to procure them from the sludge. What are these precious finds? Why, freakish mutant fetuses of course.

Trouble breaks out when Lorca's rivals show up at his castle, along with the FBI. Horrible fun ensues.

BEST SCENE IN THE MOVIE: Lorca's faithful assistant, Sheila (Jacqueline Lovell) topless, in leather shorts! Wearing a go-rilla mask! With a gun! In the snow! My friends, this is why god created cinema!...

Ok, with a title like HIDEOUS! you know right off-the-bat that the

filmmakers weren't out to win any Oscars with this offering.

Surprisingly though, what director Charles Band and his co-horts

at Full Moon Pictures do accomplish is a much better B-movie

than one might expect.



The plot is simple yet completely deranged: a "biological oddities

broker", Belinda Yost (Tracy May), and her two, wealthy, high-profile

collector clients, Napolean Lazar (Mel Johnson Jr.) and Dr. Lorca

(Michael Citriniti), square off against one another over a deformed

specimen found at a local sewer filtration plant. One has his half- naked, gorilla-mask wearing assistant Sheila (Jaqueline Lovell)

steal it while the other hires a P.I., Det. Kantor (Gerard O' Donnell)

to track it down. Everyone winds up in a strange, Transylvanian

castlesque mansion fighting one another until, lo-and-behold,

monsters come to life and all hell breaks loose!



Granted the story isn't great, or barely even good, but the film does

manage to shine in a few areas. The cinematography, despite

what is obviously constructed on a reduced budget, is top-notch.

The film is also well-directed, given the poor material with which it

contends. Well paced and shot. And some of the portrayals and

acting/actors are much better than what one might encounter in

similar features and situations; on one end, fine performances are

given by Lovell (who is very easy on the eyes, I might add), May and

O'Donnell (O'Donnell should be making "real" pictures), but then

we have to contend with over-indulgent, ham from Citriniti,

Johnson Jr. and Rhonda Griffin. It comes out even I suppose.



But the most disappointing aspect of HIDEOUS! by far has to be

the creature effects. They are just plain awful. The deformed

monstrosities look more like skinned Muppets, yet with 50 times

less articulation. They can barely move, mutter incessantly, run

around oozing goo and bring the possibilities of the picture down

quite considerably. And the "sex-scene" is too unbelievably stupid

to describe, but is a must-see! Yes, HIDEOUS! is meant to have a

comic undertone for certain, but chances are the viewer won't be

laughing "with" the makers of this ugly nugget.



5/10. This all could have been avoided if they'd used

Tupperware...

There are several more independent horror cheapies out there, including HIDEOUS!, which comes from a B-movie studio known as Full Moon Productions. Who has ever spoken such terrible dialogue??? The film sort of follows a classic B-movie plot from the 50s involving visitors in a "haunted mansion" run by a bearded guy who's always the perpetrating mastermind behind ghastly ghouls. Admit it! Movies produced on a low, low budget these days aren't as terrifying as they're supposed to, and not even the monsters are frightening. By 90s standards, it is terribly void of authentic chills that swept across drive-in movie screens of yesteryear, and concerns more on poor monster designs and lovely ladies (as usual). And yes, the beautiful Jacqueline Lovell looks great in a pair of hot pants and carrying an armed handgun. Pay more attention to her and you'll enjoy this. This is a "B" movie that simply spells b-a-d with a capital B! For a while, I thought the drive-in theater died along with the movies that played! Well, HIDEOUS! can go jump in the grave along with the rest of them, I guess.

"Hideous" is the most professional Full Moon film on the surface. Its beautifully shot, very well-cast and makes use of an epic and atmospheric locale. But unfortunately it features one of the driest, most predictable and uneventful scripts. Charles Band directs in his usual cheapo style with loads of longwinded, faux-intellectual dialogue, sloooooow scenes where nothing happens and loads of stale or over-the-top acting. The incredible production value of this film should've been given to a Puppet Master film. Puppet Master 3 shows what a good budget can do for a Full Moon movie, but that film also succeeded because had Band his hands off artistically.

This is a decent watch if you want to see great low-budget cinematography or a 1940s style "old dark house" story redone in the 1990s. But its not entertaining enough or weird enough for the average audience.

You have a choice...laugh or upchuck all the way through this one. Slimy, gory and just plain creepy. A sewer worker retrieves hideous deformed fetuses and other biological oddities like a four eyed baby-creature and sells them to a broker(Tracie May)that in turn keeps two depraved collectors(Michael Citriniti and Mel Johnson Jr)in constant envy of each other. Hell breaks loose in the castle of one collector when four pint-sized creatures become animated and go on a killing spree. Jacqueline Lovell brings s-e-x to the mix. Either topless or semi-topless, she seems to be the only redeeming thing offered in this comedic horror dud. Imagine a topless babe wearing short shorts and a gorilla mask. This is all you will want to remember.

Solidly weird. But still not super great. Loved the concept.

Ew, that all i can say about this film, the begining was horrible, three men working in a sewage treatment plan retrive some sort, of meat packet that turns out to be a SMART FETUS! A SMART FETUS, that can READ, and control other fetuses with mind control!

Now I LOVE A GOOD B-movie, but this, this "film" can hardly be called a b-movie has SOME good points. During the frist 15 minutes of this movie, i made the following gestures "Stabbing myself in the neck, sticking my thumbs into my eye sockets in attempts to STOP THIS HORROR, and finally vomiting.

To jump back on subject, this movie over uses huge words, no one in their right mind would use, in an everyday conversation. Further more, when the "villain" steals Dr. Vorca's "goober" "freak" "fetus freak-thing" the thief, is a woman wearing an ape mask, walking around TOPLESS!!!!!!!! in the middle of winter. Now i am not the one to ask a topless woman WHY she is topless, but just why IS SHE TOPLESS IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER!

The prop signs in this film look like they have been stolen from a little child's fun house, "Danger Quick-Sand" written in the classical black paint with paint running down off of the words. Oh yes, and who can for get Dr. Vorca's own private road, complete with sign, huge letters that spell out PRIVATE and smaller letters spelling out private. Now instead of this sign on a regulation state sign, it is just a piece of drywall, painted, and stapled to two 2X4's hammered into the ground!

And the sound effects, WHAT ARE WE TO THINK THIS IS BOZO'S FUN FAIR! The slide wistle! OH THE SLIDE WISTLE! I WANTED TO BREAK THE THING! The stereotypical dumb blonde respeptionist at "Biological Medical Specimens" was enough for me, BUT NO, THEY PUT THE "BAD" FREAK COLECTOR IN A FREAKING CASTLE! WITH AN EASTERN EUROPEAN ACCENT, this is SO cliche, why not give Dr. Vorca an Afro!

Now then on to the puppets for the monsters, they were actually the BEST THING IN THIS FILM! NO JOKE! the most original idea in the whole production!

Here is the thing. You have to enjoy cheesy horror movies. To be delighted by the bizarre also helps. Hideous! is a weird movie involving collectable biological oddities preserved (mostly) in formaldehyde, a girl band in a cage rocking out, and a mutant born of noxious waste hell-bent on getting revenge or eating people or something. A quirky movie that entertained me to no end just by it's amusing oddness. The topless bandit didn't hurt either. If you like Full Moon Pictures, you will probably like this one. If the Puppet Master or Subspecies movies didn't do anything for you, then you should probably skip it. But, if you are ready to take a leap of faith and/or have a backup video at the ready, get a copy and set back on the couch for a bizarre evening.

....but it´s no better. German title is "In Vitro - Attack of the Mutants ".

1) I guess the cover art is a fake, because you think, this movie has lots of splatter and gore effects, when you see it. I was thinking the same, and so I grabbed out the box from the rack..... 2) OK, first step done. I turned around the box and read through the storyline. A small outtake: " ....a horrifying bunch of mutants, who only wants to take one thing: revenge. " (Only translated from the German text on the box). 3) The next impudence: once again, the cover. I didn´t know Mr. Band before, but the banner on the box, makes it very easy to get a first impression. BANNER: A movie from Charles Band, the King of Fantastic Movies 4) After this step, I was sure to buy it, for only (about) $19,99.

So Mister Ziggerhofer, I thought, find some VHSMachine ´n stuff, insert the movie, lay back and enjoy. First 10 min: Ok found some fetus in the sewers.... After 30 min: It´s time that something happens, no blood, no gore , no splatter, in the first half hour.

At that point, my stomach gave me THE feeling. I was very amused of Lorca´s assistant, but that was all. No more suprising, pleeeeeeezzzze.

At last: I recommend this movie, for everybody, because it has all implements a FANTASTIC movie needs: Thrill, Blood, good actors, pretty girls (except Ms. King Kong), thrilling soundtrack..... and much more.

I think Mr. Band has made himself the KING, because of his outstanding ideas and wonderful directing.

But i like really bad movies, not such surprising chartbreakers.

1 out of 10 Stars

Greetings ZIG

One of the worst movie made in '90.

A weird plot, a series of absurd characters too stupid or too amoral to be realistic.

The freaks are more complex of the human and more smart too.

There is almost nothing that can be saved from it.

OK, I tried to like this movie, I tried because I heard it was pretty good from my friends (unfortuantley they all live in a mental asylum) so I decided to watch and not make fun of it. Boy, was that a f-ckin' mistake. This film is loaded with nudity, random acts of stupidity and the comedy...well, the less said the better. I can't really stand much of this film, though, sorry. I don't really think it will do much for you as it did for me. Of course that's only my opinion but you know, what do you expect from a movie with hooey like naked Gorilla women hiding their faces. Anyway, this film is bullsh0t and I can't really recommend it to anyone unless they live in a mental instition, like my dear good friends. Yes, I have problems.

When sewage workers serendipitously discover a discarded and deformed fetus, several collectors of medical oddities vie for possession of it. Subsequently, the fetus, along with others in a collection, come back to life and begin wreaking havoc. The plot offers an interesting premise, as medical oddities are an exotic source of fascination, as well as a dark biological aesthetic which lends itself well to the horror genre, while providing an antidote to the sterile and plastic commercial culture which permeates the mainstream media.

While the viewer may be inclined to perceive the reanimated fetuses as the antagonists of the film, the real antagonists are the collectors - Elvina, Napoleon Lazar, and Dr. Lorca. They can be characterized as such because (1) they seek to obtain the deformed fetuses for their own personal collections, thus gratifying their own egos, whereas such preternatural specimens should be studied by science, or if such specimens are to be put on display, it should be a public exhibition in order to stimulate the intellectual curiosity of the novelty-starved masses. Preferably, they should be in a museum, ideally one that specializes in medical oddities, such as the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. (2) They are antagonists because they continue their pursuit of the fetuses even after they discover that the specimens are not only alive, but sentient. Therefore, they would exploit the fetuses for their own gain, despite the fact the fetuses express (in the form of writing notes!) their preference to be left alone. This can be symbolic of how businesspeople view the consumer as a commodity - a means of improving one's "bottom line" - rather than as beings with their own desires. The deformed fetuses, therefore, are not antagonists but antiheroes. They only cause trouble once their desire has been disregarded. This film contains some creatively sexy scenes. Regarding sexual content, mainstream films tend to offer little more than mundane male-female sexual intercourse. B-movies often deliver a refreshing selection of uncommon/unnatural sexual scenes, serving to satisfy one's desire for an alternative to routine and unimaginative sexuality. "Hideous!" is no exception, and in fact, the sexual scenes make for some of the most appealing content of this film.

I love a good B horror movie. But there is nothing worse than a BAD B horror movie. This is truly awful and not worth any more time writing this review, let alone your time watching it. The people who gave this a 10 are obviously vertically dyslectic and meant to give it a 1.

Laughable, dull, overly dramatic script. Flat, one dimensional characters. The most unrealistic dialogue. People don't really talk this...imbecile! Elvina--I know she is supposed to be a dim witted blonde, but she is bad actress and cannot even act stupid. The Castle looked very good, but it is just a prop, at least the outside. Why this needed to be filmed in Romania, I will never know. The best part about this movie was putting a very attractive woman in a gorilla mask, and having her walk around in the snow topless in booty shorts w/ a gun--That is classic.

3 out of 10

You'll have to decide, if a topless babe (Jacqueline Lovell) wearing a gorilla mask, running around in the snow, is enough incentive to watch "Hideous"? There is fertile ground for plenty of dark humor, as two fanatical collectors of unique biological oddities compete for a prized specimen. When the gorilla masked accomplice of one collector steals the oddity, the other hires a detective (Jerry O'Donnell) to find it. If you close your eyes when the detective is talking, you would swear Tom Sizemore had just walked into the movie. In the end the film degenerates into total silliness, but at least the Tom Sizemore impersonator and the topless gorilla babe make a connection, and seem totally right for each other. - MERK

There is only one reason to watch this movie and that's to see the lovely Jacqueline Lovell in that black vest (and not much more). You'd be better off watching Showtime after dark. Fuhgeddaboutid!

"Hideous!"? I think that this movie should have been called "Ridiculous" instead. I often see bad movies, but not this bad.

The plot of the movie is as follows: A man who fishes pieces of garbage out of sewage for a living(?) fishes out a biological organism of some sort. He sells it to a woman who makes money selling these organisms, and the woman in turn sells it to some other guy. In the process of taking this organism home, this guy is robbed by a topless woman who works for his rival. I feel no need to describe this movie any further because the reader of this review should know by now that this movie isn't worth his\her time.

This movie suffers from horrible acting, a bad script, horrendous direction, and annoying characters, just to name a few things. The only good quality of this movie is the effects of the the monsters.

Try to avoid this one. My rating: 2 out of 10