David Hooks, Dick Sargent, Frank Ashmore

Politicians scheme to clone themselves, assuring immortal life.

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Directed by: Robert S. Fiveson

Release Date: August 1, 1979

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • January 3, 2008
    The little film Michael Bay completely ripped off for The Island. However, this is a chilling allegory with a lot of heart and a much darker feel. An excellent story with lots of sympathetic characters, some of them not even human, and dark political satire along with some very...( read more) cool scenes and imagery. Very good stuff.
  • August 12, 2009
    This is a film which says that growing clones for body parts is wrong. The problem is that it takes 90 minutes to say it, and even if it said it as early as 1979, eighteen years before Dolly, that doesn't justify spending an hour and a half of your 2009 time listening to it. Ther...( read more)e are still professional reviewers around who think that it is the kind of film that "makes you think", but as for me, I wouldn't say that the kind of activity it elicited in my own brain would qualify as thought. It felt closer to dozing off. The film could have been subtitled "Escape from Idiocracy" rather than "The Clonus Horror." It didn't even stir my interest in Milwaukee.

    The MST3K commentary overdid the "Biography" running joke about Peter Graves, but contained some fine moments, especially in the operation scene: "Thank you nurse for this nice aria"; "Oh! Sperm races!" and "They took the blood out of his right arm and put it into his left arm."

    The added sound effects in the chase scene were great too.
  • November 24, 2008
    I saw this one on MST3K. I really hope that this one got credit from Bay. It's the same exact story as the island, except more entertaining and made verry badly.
  • January 29, 2008
    A truely awful movie. Great fun to mock with Mike and the bots. It's actually the exact same story as The Island but without the budget and not such a happy ending.
  • November 5, 2007
    That's right, kids. I reviewed another one of Mike Nelson's commentaries. I always wondered why Hollywood always remade good movies. I thought that remaking bad films would make those bad films better. Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh, not so much. Parts: The Clonus Horror was remade...( read more) into The Island. Both movies sucked really bad. I will no longer complain about remakes of good movies. (Okay, I probably will, but it's nice to be disproven every once in a while.)

    Most of this movie suffers from low-budget syndrome and lack of directorial talent. (It's actually a little depressing to watch the interview with director Robert S. Fiveson because he is so serious about his craft that he clearly knows nothing about.)

    Yeah, the story is political. But at the end of the day, not really. It's about the use of cloning for organ donation. Sure, this concept has come up in the news in regards to human rights, but to look at that political fiasco through the eyes of this ridiculous movie is absurd. What's really depressing is the heavy-handed dialogue this movie presents as logical arguements. No, Clonus Horror, you just come off as a little cloned retarded.
  • June 28, 2007
    Excellent for B quality...very cool premise
  • June 11, 2007
    I love this movie. I love it because it was the first MST I ever did see, I love it because the characters are so very nice-but-dim, and I just love the feel to it. This is the film that's suing 'The Island', so if you liked that you could try checking this out.

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