Nightmare Weekend

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At that point it becomes apparent that the plot is utter nonsense, scientifically retarded, and boring. Even if one accepts the premise, the entire mess is too incoherent to make its case. The pace is terribly slow, and the characters are so unattractive, that the lackluster portrayal of their deaths becomes an even greater dissapointment. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>* Blood * Violent * No Strong Language * Sexual Situations * Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary: Professor Brake's deranged assistant Julie Klingstone has invited three beautiful college women to participate in an experiment for which they are to be paid $500. Her evil henchmen, among them Ken, are dispatched at some obvious expense to break into the mainframe computer via a satellite dish.</B></div> <div> <B>The professors little clown computer/robort warns of danger! Rotate the dish and hook up the box! George the clown uses a remote control silver ball to blast the eye out of one hacker's head.</B></div> <div> <B>The professor's daughter Jessica is there for the weekend during which he of the 212 patents intends to complete an experiment on the biometer. The cheap chauffer is instructed to pick up the girls </B></div> <div> <B>Ken is working on his motorcycle but can't get the accidental death of his friend out of his mind. Julie promises him, this last weekend will do it. Jessica loves George. While Jessica plays computer race game, Julie's car acts like the computer race car nearly killing her. George is obviously a dangerous guy. A seedy dance club video arcade with disgustin sex/muscle people is the setting for incomprehensible flirt/sex/machismo scenes internmittantly. The Apache machine has accomplished 100% success in reversing personalities, but the professor will not risk it on humans, despite Julies pleas. The Appache program also enables George to steer cars and do other things. The operation can reverse schizophrenia so the theory goes. In an experiment the doberman ingests the living ball, derived from his bowl, and the reaction is   Loss of inhibitions and supression of fear is the goal the professor is worried about long term effects.</B></div> <div> <B>Jessica goes to the crummy dance place and meets Ken. She tells George how she feels, she wants to be with him. He wants more data. Julie needs a personal object from all of the girls hired for the weekend.</B></div> <div> <B>Ken is to assist her in it. Daddy is preoccupied by the speed of the experiments and Julie's constant pushing. During a shower a ball comes out of the drain and is ingested by one of the subjects. She returns to her boyfreiend and bites his throat out. One subject decides something is fishy and wants to leave. Georges database suggests Jessica as a brunette wear a white dress and hitchhike to get the man she desires. Refrettably, Dave, the pinball wizard stops instead of ken. He attempts to rape her, but George uses his wruistwatch to send a ball that tears his throat out while Ken is there to wisk Jessica away. The doberman dies of an aparant internal hemhorage. Julie has a deal for halh a million up front, and a third of the profit. It is dawning on Ken that he is facing a conflict of intersest. He realizes that this is the house whrere his partner was killed. Julie nixes his relationship with Julie by declaring they are lovers. Julie threatens Ken. Guys at the disco would like an invitation to the house where those babes are. The babes are trying on cool clothes when the disgusting dance musclemen show up. Julie wants them let in. Pamela meanwhile is acting strangely. Annie feels like she's been there before. She knows ythe place from a photo her friend jessica showed her. J. also maentioned that julie klingstone is a very dangerous woman. Thge maid gets a ball instead of coffee , the professor is conked by julie and jessica arrives to find an house full of zombies, geting uglier by the minute. As her father struggles to free himself, Jessica is being attacked, and George is working to stop the program. Julies plan is to leave the mess at the expense of the professor who is to be blamed as a mad scientist. But Julie has been double crossed by Ken and a brief showdown at the airport is coming.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>