Movie Details
| Title: | Split Second | |
| Director: | Tony Maylam | |
| Year: | 1992 | |
| Genre: | Dark Future | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.15.25 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.15.25 | Internet | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2025 "We gotta get bigger guns!" "Well, Satan is in deep shit!" I rented this when it came out because I think I saw a picture of the monster in an issue of Fangoria magazine. I remember nothing about it except I thought it went by super fast and you barely see the monster and Rutger Hauer and Kim Cattral are in it. The year is 2008. Global Warming has caused 40 days and nights of rain in London, flooding the entire city and resulting in near total night. Police have hovercrafts, it's a dark future. Hauer has the circle shades and motorcycle boots and leather duster, his job title is unclear. He's chasing a serial killer who killed his partner. The killer's modus operandi? He rips their hearts out. I'm a big fan of early 90s Rutger Hauer. HBO would invariably play them and I ate them up. Blind Fury, Wedlock, Surviving the Game, and I'm on record unironically loving Blood of Heroes. It's all good cheeseball video store fun. This particular entry, dripping with early 90s style and making absolutely no sense, distinguishes itself by crossing over from cop mystery into supernatural horror. Hauer has a psychic link with the killer (possibly due to his shoulder pads). It's kind of a weird thing for a big-ass demonic monster with claws to use a shotgun, but I'm cool with it. The creature design is somewhere between Giger's Alien and Venom with fish-hook talons and long teeth and smooth black skin. You really barely see it which I guess means it looked terrible but with the help of a little imagination it's pretty badass. Couldn't tell you where it came from or how it came to be except to say it's something to do with the occult... or something, but, you know, how important is that stuff anyhow? For this movie, not very. Good fun. |
