Mr. Stitch

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Movie
German title Mr. Stitch
Original title Mr. Stitch
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1995
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Roger Avary
script Roger Avary
production Roger Avary,
Rutger Hauer ,
Morgan Mason
music Tomandandy
camera Tom Richmond
cut Sloane Klevin
occupation

Mr. Stitch is an American science fiction and horror film directed by Roger Avary and produced as a television film . Avary himself wrote the script as a reinterpretation of Frankenstein and also appeared as one of the producers. It premiered in the United States on August 17, 1996 on the Sci-Fi Channel . The film was released in Germany on November 20, 1995 as a direct-to-video release.

action

Dr. In a secret military facility, Rue Wakeman brings to life an androgynous being named Subject 3 , composed of 88 bodies, each 44 women and men . The being has no memories but is able to speak and learn from the scientific books made available to it and has superhuman strength. It convinces Dr. Wakeman threatened to get him two fictional books to read, the Bible and Frankenstein . Dr. Wakeman brings him a Bible, but says he couldn't get a copy of Frankenstein. After subject 3 has read the Bible, he decides to identify himself as a man based on his physical strength and his aggressiveness and gives himself the biblical name Lazarus .

Lazarus is haunted again and again by nightmares that seem very vivid to him. Dr. Wakeman therefore sends psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth English to Lazarus to talk to him about his dreams. She also gives Lazarus a copy of Frankenstein, who states that he has read this book before. During a hypnosis session, Dr. English states that the nightmares are the memories of the deceased from which the body of Lazarus was compiled. One of those people was Dr. Frederick Texarian, who also worked at the facility and worked with Dr. English was in a relationship. Dr. Texarian discovered an intrigue after the project's goal was to create a super soldier. Wakeman pulls Dr. English then leaves the project and Lazarus escapes from the facility. On his escape, he overhears a conversation from Dr. Wakeman, in which he starts work on the new, more aggressive subject 4 and determines the elimination of subject 3. Lazarus flees to Dr. English, but soon returns to the research facility to kill subject 4 together with General Hardcastle, the client of the project and himself using VX gas.

After the credits you can see Dr. English how she puts together a new body.

background

The film was originally intended as a pilot for a stand-alone series. However, disputes between the director Roger Avary and the actor and producer Rutger Hauer led to the abandonment of this plan. Hauer finally left the shooting, so that Avery had to rewrite the script so that he could continue to use the scenes in the film that had already been filmed with Hauer.

The shooting took place in 1994 in Nice , France, which among other things led to mainly French cars being used in the chase in the last third of the film, although the film is set in the United States. The production design of Dr. Wakeman's laboratory is mostly in bright white and the rest of the recordings also look strongly stylized and are reminiscent of works by Fritz Lang , of which director Roger Avary is a fan.

reception

The film received mediocre reviews. The critics of the television magazine TV Spielfilm gave the film a "thumb to the side". The film relies less on monster horror and has a difficult to digest depth. Todd Everett wrote in his review in Variety magazine that the acting was at times appalling, but praised Wil Wheaton's sensitive and intelligent portrayal of Lazarus. On the critic's Rotten Tomatoes site , Mr. Stitch received an average user rating of 27 percent (as of February 2020).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Todd Everett: Mr. Stitch. In: Variety . variety.com, August 15, 1996, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Erin Richter: Mr. Stitch plagued by creative differences. In: Entertainment Weekly . ew.com, May 10, 1996, accessed February 3, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Tvspielfilm.de: Mr. Stitch. Retrieved February 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Mr. Stitch. rottentomatoes.com, accessed February 3, 2020 .