A dead soldier is brought back to life as a cyborg to fight hordes of Nazi demons alongside a ragtag band of adventurers in a dystopian future. For the type of cinephiles whose youthful Friday nights were spent camped in front of the VCR with a plain-cheese pizza and widening grins plastered across their 8-year-old faces, that sentence alone should be enough to trigger heart palpatations.

A celebration of '80s pulp, over-the-top gore, awkward one-liners and more awkward green screens, Manborg is more-is-more psychotronic, schlock-fest madness in the vein of last year's Monster Brawl. It is a similarly deranged love letter to sticky evenings spent in the warm glow of an old vacuum tube television. Normally, when someone calls a movie “trash” it's a dismissal. For movies by Winnipeg collective Astron-6, it's a badge of honour.

Preceded by:

Familiar

Directed by Richard Powell, Canada, 2012, 24 minutes

John Dodd is full of hatred, for the world in general and his wife in particular. He starts to suspect that those negative impulses aren't entirely under his control.

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