Weirdhouse Cinema: Mutant Hunt
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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In this episode of Weirdhouse Cinema, Rob and Joe explore the slimy cyberpunk world of 1987’s “Mutant Hunt,” directed by Tim Kincaid. It’s a near-future in which drug-mutated cyborgs ravage the streets of direct-to-video New York City.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb. |
| 0:20.5 | And this is Joe McCormick. And today we have a pretty fascinating slice of low-budget 1980s, New York City, grimy genre cinema. It is 1987's Mutant Hunt. A movie just so, so grimy, so covered in a patina of sleaze, but without really featuring much in the way of grimy or sleazy content, it is a near-future dystopian cyberpunk adventure, full of many of the familiar bells and whistles, you know, cyborgs, bounty hunters, sunglasses at night, pleasure droids, advanced mobile |
| 0:56.6 | personal computer devices. |
| 0:59.0 | It's absolutely as derivative as many other entries in this subgenre. |
| 1:03.7 | But at the same time, I just really admire the hustle of this film. |
| 1:07.6 | You know, it clearly made with, you know, guerrilla style, I'm guessing, |
| 1:11.5 | with a lot of, you know, just finding locations, shooting it, trying for, like, really |
| 1:17.6 | getting ambitious with some of the things it attempts to do with a limited budget, but with, |
| 1:23.0 | you know, clearly some scrappy special effects artists. And it, it trots out a few genuinely cool a few genuinely cool and even thought-provoking ideas and just really goes for it with wild plot twists and effects, even as you can just feel the budget strain underneath the vision. |
| 1:38.6 | If only we lived in this movie's version of the future when it comes to mapping software. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah, they've got these mapping programs that tell you how to get somewhere, |
| 1:50.3 | and it just shows basically an outline of Lower Manhattan from space with no streets or words or, |
| 1:57.7 | like, text, or any topography at all, just an outline of the land mass and then an X in the middle of it. |
| 2:04.8 | Yeah, oh, there. |
| 2:05.9 | Yeah, Manhattan Island, and this is where I roughly am on it. |
| 2:09.2 | Yeah, it's great because on one hand, the way that the, |
| 2:13.9 | this, this, this technology is, is used in the film. Like, it it is actually spot on this is exactly how we get around |
| 2:21.3 | today you know and get around you know i think any of us that have gone to new york city you find |
| 2:25.3 | yourself moving around in new york this way checking your device seeing where you are but with a lot |
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