Rejuvenator - Gib dem Teufel nie die Hand

Rejuvenator - Gib dem Teufel nie die Hand (1988)

Rejuvenatrix

Dem fanatischen Forscher Dr. Gregory Ashton gelingt eine wissenschaftliche Sensation! Er entwickelt ein Serum, das ewige Jugend und Schönheit möglich macht. Die alternde Filmdiva Ruth Warren hat aus nicht ganz uneigennützigem Interesse diese Forschungen finanziert und zwingt Ashton, das Serum ohne weitere Tests und Versuche bei ihr anzuwenden. Der Erfolg ist verblüffend. Ruth ist schöner denn je und liebeshungrig wie eine junge Göttin - für sie beginnt ein neues Leben! Doch das Ergebnis ist leider nicht von Dauer, denn die Nebenwirkungen des Wunderserums sind mehr als verheerend...

Erscheinungsdatum
1988-07-22
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (19)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 30 Min.
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Regie
Brian Thomas Jones

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

Rejuvenatrix is a 1988 American horror film starring Vivian Lanko and John MacKay, and directed by Brian Thomas Jones. The film was partly inspired by the 1959 science fiction film The Wasp Woman, which had been produced and directed by Roger Corman. The original title was Rejuvenatrix, although it has become more popularly known as The Rejuvenator, and this included the UK and Brazil.

Production

The film originally came about through director Brian Thomas Jones and Steven Mackler, who would produce the film. Mackler contacted Jones after he was impressed with his 1984 short-film Overexposed, a film about photojournalists on assignment in El Salvador. Mackler made a deal with Sony Video Software - SVS Films - in 1987, which involved the creation of three feature films.

The filming of Rejuventrix took twenty-two days to shoot, two-days longer than scheduled. The project's expense came to approximately $230,000 after post production. The main filming location was in New York City, United States. The mansion within the film was located in New Jersey, with the film crew shooting the first four days of the project there.

Upon its release, Jones and Mackler had planned to use initial positive reviews to re-market the film as a "modern midnight movie". However SVS were less optimistic about the film and decided to book only a limited theatrical run of one week in New York. Jones believed the film had "cult potential but never got the opportunity". SVS also interfered with the film's title, of which there were several working titles, including "Scream Queen".

In the early 2014 interview for UK Horror Scene, Budrewicz described the film as "a marvellous, Gothic sci-fi frightener - a kooky and ever-so-slightly-kinky hybrid of Cronenberg, The Wasp Woman and Billy Wilder's noir classic Sunset Boulevard". Jones was disappointed that it never got the recognition he felt it deserved, but noted it still had a fanbase.

The film was Vivian Lanko's debut appearance. Married to actor Martin Donovan, she would only appear in two other films The Refrigerator (1991) and Simple Men (1992).

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