Timesweep (1987 Video)
3/10
DTV
16 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Director Dan Diefenderfer only directed this one film, but he also was an electrician on Turbulence. He co-wrote the script with Larry Nordsieck and John Thonen, who wrote for Fangoria and Cinefantastique and also wrote B-Movie Horrors: A Photo-Filled Journey Into the Horror and Sci-Fi Films of Director Don Dohler.

A historical society is exploring the Dunbar film studios which have long been abandoned. As a TV news crew and some students start looking around, they're suddenly pulled into different times and aren't aline, as there's a cop from the 60s and a caveman, both of whom are quite unstable.

Somehow, in the middle of all this craziness, someone finds a print of London After Midnight.

Shot on 16mm in Diefenderfer's own studio, this really throws everything into one movie and hopes that you like some of it. Acid fog, Roman centurions, ghosts, giant roaches, a UFO, zombies...and lots of walking. Lots and lots of walking down hallways.

There's also a ton of gore and characters that you shouldn't get too attached to. This movie hates its characters and they get murdered in various creative ways. There's also a series of posters on the walls - Mondo Teeno (Teenage Rebellion), Tarantula, The Mummy, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula - and characters are named Vincent Hill, Roger Agar, H. G. Lewis, Sam Harcough, Florrie Ackerman and Mike Romero.

I think the more you love movies, the more you might like this. I wasn't bored because just when you think you know what this movie is about, it becomes a completely different movie.

The credits promise Timesweep 2 - The Quesdrov Factor and sadly, we never got that movie.
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