Blu-ray Review – Igor and the Lunatics

1985’s “Igor and the Lunatics” retains unusual credits. The director listed on the feature is Billy Parolini, but he shares the work with Tom Doran and Brendan Faulkner, who are responsible for “horror, action, and suspence (sic) sequences.” The film definitely reflects a production that was managed by multiple people, undergoing borderline random reshoots, with the final cut a wild mess of characters and ideas that, maybe, once made sense to those who created the picture. “Igor and the Lunatics” is meant to become a rough ride of violent activity tied to the persistence of a cult attempting to maintain power in rural New York. It’s a show of menace and physical brutality that’s been done before, but in this endeavor, ideas and people are placed into an editorial blender, and the resulting mush of genre highlights is offered as entertainment. There’s a lot of “huh?” and “what?” going on in the offering, and very little of it is amusing, intentionally or otherwise. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com