Plot: In the remote desert, an isolated compound is home to a team of researchers for a company known as Gentec. The scientists there study viruses and have discovered a most unusual one. This virus shows the potential to boost regeneration, meaning it could help quickly heal wounds, perhaps even severe ones. Such a virus could be a boon to humanity, but Gentec eyes a way to create better soldiers. This focus on profit over people caused the team to experiment on a human ahead of schedule, a decision that led skilled scientist Jim Stockton (Lance Henriksen) to leave the team. But now the subject is in need of Stockton’s specialized skills, so he begrudgingly agrees to lend a hand. He plans to stop by the lab, help with the subject, then continue on a camping trip with his kids. But unknown to Jim, the subject is awake and violent. Now stalked by a mutated killer he helped create, can Stockton somehow protect his family and end the experiment?

Entertainment Value: This film started life as a potential sequel to The Hills Have Eyes, so you sometimes see it marketed as the third film in that series. Also known as The Outpost, the film is most commonly listed as Mind Ripper. So if you want to seek out this flick, you might find it under any of those three titles. This movie has Lance Henriksen and well…a lot of terrible, but hilarious performances. As usual, Lance is rock solid, but everyone else in this is abysmal. The worst offenders are Giovanni Ribisi and Nastasha Wagner, who are beyond bad. The film also has a padded run time, with too much walking around and not enough tension. But what Mind Ripper does have is a fun story and some good bloodshed, putting it above most of the mid 90s horror crowd. So if you like Lance and don’t mind some filler, give Mind Ripper a chance.

There’s a shower scene with an ass shot, but no boobs in this one. On the blood front, Mind Ripper has some solid moments of gore. The mutant has a vagina inside his mouth and guess what comes out of the vagina? A dog’s dick. Yep. The monster has a vagina inside of his mouth that houses a very long, very hilarious dog’s dick. Is that alone not enough reason to see this movie? You can also see eye gouging, neck breaking, and other assorted gore effects, most of which happen on screen. There’s some off screen violence as well, like seeing a crushed skull ooze blood and brains. The dialogue isn’t Omemorable, but man, you’ll wish you could forget Wagner’s atrocious performance. Mind Ripper is a mostly straight forward horror movie, but the miserable acting and monster, who looks like the banjo kid from Deliverance took a metric fuck ton of steroids, add some craziness.

Nudity: 1/10

Blood: 6/10

Dialogue: 2/10

Overall Insanity: 4/10