Steven Kostanski's gleefully violent practical effects extravaganza, Psycho Goreman, is a love letter to ”˜80s horror and sci-fi cinema.
Psycho Goreman's trailer reveals a blood-soaked creature feature custom-tailored for Midnight audiences.
Despite forgetting to add in a certain degree of sincerity that 80s and 90s cheeseball replicas need to succeed as comedies, the ultra low budget Manborg from Winnipeg's Astron 6 has enough funny moments and interesting stop motion effects to spare.
Manborg is meant to recreate that VHS tape you once found misplaced in the corner concert film section of a pawn shop. In a world being rapidly flooded with these rehashed nostalgia bombs, Manborg is challenged to represent a new era/aesthetic of re-re-re-rehash, and to be more entertaining than many of the other films in the running. Thankfully for Manborg , it is half man, half cyborg, all Manborg.