Curosity got me and I decided to check this out after hearing what a ripoff 'The Island' had been of this movie. And yeah it definitely was, but this was actually better. A lot better. I think most of the people who recognized the repeated plot had seen this as a Mystery Science Theater episode, but I don't get why. This movie wasn't remotely as bad as I thought it would have to be to end up on that show.
Comparing the two movies, this one made more sense. I guess there was some pretty cheesy acting but that was probably because of whatever budget they had at the time. So if you took the actors from 'The Island' and transplanted them into 'Parts: the Clonus Horror', you'd have a masterpiece. I do love Peter "hot legs" Graves in this though. :o) I thought the fact that they weren't raised in a clinical setting but a resort type place made much more sense and that they were actually made to be retarded instead of just plain dumb also explained how they could get away with what they were doing. The only problem was that the scientific stuff was handled the way it always was back in the day, green goop and fake machines that go "ping".
I think if you double feature this movie with 'Logan's Run', you get the entertaining movie watching experience you missed out on with that other movie.
Comparing the two movies, this one made more sense. I guess there was some pretty cheesy acting but that was probably because of whatever budget they had at the time. So if you took the actors from 'The Island' and transplanted them into 'Parts: the Clonus Horror', you'd have a masterpiece. I do love Peter "hot legs" Graves in this though. :o) I thought the fact that they weren't raised in a clinical setting but a resort type place made much more sense and that they were actually made to be retarded instead of just plain dumb also explained how they could get away with what they were doing. The only problem was that the scientific stuff was handled the way it always was back in the day, green goop and fake machines that go "ping".
I think if you double feature this movie with 'Logan's Run', you get the entertaining movie watching experience you missed out on with that other movie.