The Immortalizer (Video 1989)

The Immortalizer: Directed by Joel Bender. With Ron Ray, Chris Crone, Clarke Lindsley, Melody Patterson. A crazed scientist sends out his mutant creations to kidnap young, beautiful men and women to bring back to his lab so he can replace their brains with those of old, wealthy people.

“THE IMMORTALIZER was, uh, interesting. It certainly didnu0026#39;t kill me during its hour and a half duration, but it didnu0026#39;t impress me much either. A group of kids are abducted in an alley by musclehead mutants (in a scene featuring cinemau0026#39;s least convincing head crushing sound effect) and taken to a fancy house in the suburbs. Here Dr. Divine and his team are performing brain transplants for his rich old patients so they can have young bodies again. Hey, this was quietly remade with a big budget a few years later as FREEJACK! Who knew that when you transplant an old personu0026#39;s brain into a different body that their new voice will sound exactly like their old voice? With all this talk of pineal glands and the use of a glowing green serum, you can almost see visions of FROM BEYOND and RE-ANIMATOR dancing in the producersu0026#39; heads. But the production literally doesnu0026#39;t have the guts to pull it off. Iu0026#39;ve never understood why, when someone is making a low budget horror film, that they donu0026#39;t pack it to the edge of the frame with gore. The acting is uniformly terrible, with the only good performance coming from Clarke Lindsley as the assistant Dr. Price. He has a nice evil laugh. The only other thing of note about THE IMMORTALIZER is that it features lots of old people doing their own stunts. Seriously, most of the cast takes some serious bumps for old folks.”