Project Metalbeast (1995)
PROJECT: METALBEAST
One of my all time favorite werewolf movies!!!
Why no DVD release for this low budget classic?!
“They wanted a soldier as hard as steel… They created a creature that could not be destroyed!”
Buried deep in the vaults of the CIA’s laboratories, sealed in a frozen cryonic chamber is a secret that’s been dying to be reborn for over 20 years.
With the discovery that government agents have perfected a way to create living “metal” skin, warped scientist Pete Miller seizes his chance to reactivate a forgotten experiment that died with his partner years before…
Now he has the perfect test patient waiting on ice… But this is no ordinary corpse, it’s a beast immortalized by three silver bullets!
Another round of poster, VHS, DVD and soundtrack artwork from some of my all time favorite werewolf films.
“Project Metalbeast” VHS box art from the UK. It was released there simply as “Metalbeast”.
Part of a previous photo set but I thought that it was so cool it deserved its own post.
Awesome werewolf movie about a secret project to create werewolf shock troops. That project is combined with another designed to create a metal based skin and the resulting monster is impervious to harm. Especially to silver bullets.
Desperately needs a DVD release.
“Project Metalbeast” aka “Metalbeast”
Starring Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick and Kane Hodder as the Metalbeast.
One of my all time favorite werewolf movies and a real gem that needs to be rediscovered. It has never been officially released on DVD in North America, though there are plenty of bootlegs made from VHS copies. A French release was made, but it has French only audio and is hard to obtain. Hopefully it will get picked up. I hope to bring some attention to this long neglected movie.
The film is starts with the Army sending two agents into the Carpathian Mountains of Hungary to obtain werewolf blood to create werewolf shock troops with. With the use of silver bullets and the loss of an agent, the blood is secured. The surviving agent, Butler, uses it on himself. He goes on a rampage and is shot with silver bullets. His body is frozen on the orders of Col. Miller.
Twenty years later, Miller is funding a project to create artificial, metal based skin. He give the research team Butler’s “corpse” as a test cadaver. During the operation, the silver bullets are discovered and removed, causing Butler to come out of hibernation and regenerate. Butler’s werewolf ability to regenerate not only allows him to survive the skin graft but also to grow it at an accelerated rate.
Now, a werewolf is on the loose. A werewolf with bulletproof skin, sharp spines on its back, and armor piercing claws and fangs! The ultimate killing machine! An out of control shock trooper with a lust for death and destruction!
My all time favorite werewolf movies!
Dog Soldiers, Monster Dog, Project: Metalbeast, In The Company of Wolves, La Bête (aka The Beast), The Howling, Ginger Snaps, and Bad Moon.
The prizes of my VHS collection. Two big boxes and one very rare. “Monster Dog”, “The Town That Dreaded Sundown” and “Project Metalbeast”.
This is the first part of an awesome werewolf movie that I saw on TV as a kid. “Project Metalbeast” from 1995, starring Kane Hodder, Barry Bostwick and Kim Delaney. It was Directed and co-written by Alessandro De Gaetano.
The film is about a secret CIA project to obtain werewolf blood to create shock troops. 2 agents are sent into the mountains of Hungary to retrieve it, which they do only after one gets eaten. The surviving agent Butler injects himself with the blood and transforms and goes on a rampage. Is superior officer, Miller, shoots him with silver bullets and freezes him. 20 years later, Miller is supervising a new project who’s goal is to create an artificial skin that is kind of like organic steel. He orders the use of butlers “corpse” as a transplant subject, knowing full well that Butler’s werewolf regenerative powers will allow him to survive the procedure.
He wake up and now you have a werewolf that is:
- All black
- the hairs on its back have hardened into spines
- Its fangs and claws can shred metal
- It is bullet proof, especially against silver
- has even greater strength
and is played by KANE HODDER!!!!
This movie kicks so much ass!!!!
This film has never been released on DVD but thanks to youtube we can all enjoy it!
