Project: Metalbeast is a 1995 sci-fi horror film. In 1974, an unhinged CIA agent injects himself with werewolf blood. After a killing spree, his body is put in suspended animation, then thawed out twenty years later by his crazy boss and a team of unsuspecting doctors.
Directed by Alessandro De Gaetano (director of Bloodbath in Psycho Town; Haunted [1977], UFO: Target Earth, writer of Neowolf; ) from a screenplay co-written with co-producer Timothy E. Sabo and Roger Steinmann.
The movie stars Kim Delaney, Barry Bostwick, John Marzilli, Musetta Vander, Dean Scodfield, Lance Slaughter, Tim Duquette, William G. Clark and Kane Hodder as the Metalbeast.
Plot:
In 1974, amoral CIA agent Butler and his inexperienced young colleague locate a Hungarian castle where, according to classified CIA data, a werewolf lives. Their mission is to take a sample of its blood and bring it back to the States for research. The idea is to eventually create an army of soldiers with werewolf-like abilities and resistance to harm. This secret project is dubbed Project: Metalbeast.
However, the research is slow and they eventually nearly run out of werewolf blood, so Butler, unhinged, injects himself with the little blood that’s left and turns into a werewolf. He goes on a killing spree inside of the CIA research facility but is shot with silver bullets by his boss, Miller. Miller covers everything up and arranges for Butler and his victims’ bodies to be cryogenically frozen.
Twenty years later, a team of medical scientists led by doctor Anna de Carlo, who’s obsessed with finding a way to create artificial skin that could help those in need of skin transplant, visit the research lab…
Trailer:
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Cast and characters:
Kim Delaney … Anna de Carlo
Barry Bostwick … Miller
Kane Hodder … MetalBeast
John Marzilli … Butler
Musetta Vander … Debbie
Dean Scofield … Ferraro
Lance Slaughter … Larry
Tim Duquette … Roger
William G. Clark … Hammond
