Product Description

Peter Graves (Mission Impossible) and Hollywood legend Keenan Wynn (Dr Strangelove) star in this dazzling political thriller, that works equally well as a pulse pounding horror film, packed with moments of jaw dropping terror.

Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones...

Raised in a state of blissful ignorance, both about their origins and their ultimate fate, the clones dream of 'America' - where, so their guardians tell them, they will one day be sent. But what happens hen one of these farmed clones starts to ask difficult questions... and comes looking for the real America?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88041 in DVD
• Brand: RYKODISC
• Released on: 2006-10-31
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 90 minutes

Features

• A man tries to break out of a high security government research facility. He possesses a terrible secret - the government is freezing people alive so that their body parts can be used to make clones of them. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY Rating: NR Age: 843276012991 UPC: 843276012991 Manufacturer No: MOD129

Washington Times
DVD Pick of the Week

DVD Drive In
One of the most unjustly neglected sci-fi films of the 1970s. Recommended!

DVD Talk
One of the best low-budget genre films of its era, and deserves to be better known

Customer Reviews

Very Dated View of An Issue Rising in Importance
This VERY 70's movie is about a race of cloned beings that are kept docile in a private clone farm. The purpose of the clone farm is to serve people classified as "important" by creating clones of them to use as organ donors. The poor clones have no idea of what's going on. They don't know that they're organ donors. Heck, they don't even know that they're clones. When the owners of the clone farm need a vital organ in a hurry, they give the clone a quick party and say, "We're going to send you to America today." Then the clone is slaughtered.

All the clones want to go to America because they're taught from birth that America is a great place. Of course, none of the clone farm workers makes an effort to inform the clones that the farm is already located IN America. To keep the clones from getting suspicious of the truth, lobotomies are given to each and every clone on the farm shortly after creation. Despite such precautions, one clone, Richard, tries his darndest to discover what America is.

Parts: The Clonus Horror succeeds in showing the potentiality of losing ethical values when pushing scientific methods to extend life, and, although it tackles this issue wonderfully, it has a made-for-TV look that I just can't shake off. No wonder the film was chosen as fodder for one of the MST3K episodes. You can either use it as an ethical study guide or just something to ridicule, and it works either way. Interesting...

Can this really happen?
Ever since watching The Clonus Horror in the early 1980s (with my young son) I've talked about it but nobody except my son and I were familiar with this movie. I was thrilled to find it on Amazon, not only so my son and I could watch, perhaps laugh at things we then found frightening, but so I could share it with friends. The film's premise is wealthy, powerful people have clones of varying ages so when they're in need of an organ one is readily available. With scientific and medical advances it makes one wonder if this could ever become a reality.

Why buy this version...
When for just (lots and lots and lots) of pennies more, you can buy Myster Science Theater 3000, Volume 12, which includes an AWESOME riff on the very same movie? The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror) It makes the movie watchable and re-watchable.

BTW, Michael Bay's movie "The Island" was a total ripoff of "Parts: The Clonus Horror," with some varying bits of other better sci-fi movies as well. Dreamworks eventually reached a 7-figure settlement with the creators of "Parts."