Acción mutante (1993)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Álex de la Iglesia

Writers:

Jorge Guerricaechevarría (writer)
Álex de la Iglesia (writer)

Release Date:

3 February 1993 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

In a future world ruled by good-looking people, a terrorist group of mutants leaded by Ramon Yarritu kidnap the daughter of Orujo...

Plot Keywords:

Planet | Mutant | Future | Terrorist | Wedding

Awards:

3 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Antonio Resines	...	Ramón Yarritu
Álex Angulo	...	Alex Abadie (as Alex Angulo)
Frédérique Feder	...	Patricia Orujo (as Frederique Feder)
Juan Viadas	...	Juan Abadie
Karra Elejalde	...	José Óscar 'Manitas' Tellería
Saturnino García	...	César 'Quimicefa' Ravenstein (as Saturnino Garcia)
Fernando Guillén	...	El ominoso Orujo (as Fernando Guillen)
Jaime Blanch	...	El presentador loco
Ion Gabella	...	Jorobado Maldito (as Ion Gavella)
Bibiana Fernández	...	Invitada de lujo (as Bibi Andersen)
Rossy de Palma	...	Invitada de lujo (as Rosi De Palma)
Enrique San Francisco	...	El novio ultrajado
Féodor Atkine	...	Kaufmann (as Feodor Atkine)
Felipe Vélez	...	García (as Felipe Velez)
Francisco Maestre	...	El abuelo (as Paco Maestre)

Also Known As:

Action mutante (France)
Mutant Action

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

Spain | France

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Spain:18 | Argentina:16 | France:-12 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Bardenas Reales, Navarra, Spain

Company:

CiBy 2000

Trivia:

The name of planet Axturiax, the mining colony where the second half of the story is set, is actually a pun on Asturias, a region in northern Spain, known for its coal mining.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Alien (1979)

goofy, disgusting, and fun science fiction

This is my 2nd Alex de la Iglesias film, the other being Day of the Beast, and this is a highly underrated director. This is about a group of crippled and disfigured individuals who are part of a activist group that lashes out at the "beautiful people" of the world. Now they've decided to kidnap the daughter of a rich man, and infiltrate the wedding with hilarious results, like they won't stand out? There are Siamese twins, a hunchback dwarf, a man with the lowest IQ known, etc. The wedding scene is perhaps the most frenetic with old 60's pop tunes updated, Spanish style, like "Judy in Disguise With Glasses". Once the bride to be has been kidnapped the group takes off for outer space and the idea is to meet at some bar on some planet to exchange the hostage for a questionable sum of money, as in, the leader told his gang one amount but the TV said another, HIGHER amount, so after that treachery and greed set in and one by one, the group is being killed off. What does one do when their Siamese twin is killed because (as the killer says) he was plotting against you? Why, drag him around with you, of course. Good taste and political correctness is never an issue in this film, as they're never present, but that's most of the fun of the movie. The sort of bad news is, that this DVD is presented in 'wide screen', which in this case is merely a stripe on the TV screen, though, and things move so fast it's not easy to keep up with the subtitles and watch the action too. And this does bear watching, it's just too bad it wasn't given a better treatment for DVD. But the film itself is a twisted little gem, and if you enjoy black comedy mixed with science fiction you'll probably like it a lot. So why isn't "Day of the Beast" on DVD? 8 out of 10.