Label: Full Moon Entertainment
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 73 Minutes 30 Seconds
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo or 5.1 Surround with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (2.00:1)
Director: Charles Band
Cast: Emma Reinagel, Christian Carrigan, Lexi Lore, Kaylene Snarsky, Shannon Barnes, Rickard Claeson. Kaylee Banhidy
Quadrant (2024) is the 400th Film from Charles Band's Full Moon Features, which he also directed, written by C. Courtney Joyner (Class of 1999) it tells the steampunk-ish sci-fi tale of scientists Harry (Rickard Claeson) and Meg (Emma Reinagel), whom have invented what they have dubbed the "Quadrant" helmet, which allows your mind to transport you into an AI generated world where all your nightmares and fears are manifested, allowing patients to overcome their fears through immersive AI exposure therapy experience in a safe environment.
What is meant to be a mental health breakthrough is perverted by a new participant in the study, a young woman named Erin (Shannon Barnes) who uses the Quadrant not to face her fears, but to actualize her obsession with the infamous London killer Jack the Ripper, using the helmet to transport herself to 1880s-era London, to stalk the fog-shrouded streets and to kill in this virtual reality, with bloody and orgasmic results. This immersive AI experience unleashed her bloodthirst in the real world, but she seems to be stained by her exposure to Jack the Ripper, she starts to transform into a modern day female Ripper outside of the Quadrant, with a growing body count around campus, leaving the research scientist scrambling to deal with the monster that the Quadrant has unleashed.
The film succeeds in being a full-blooded boobs and blood Full Moon flick, there's plenty of nudity, and it comes off a bit darker and meaner edged than a lot of contemporary Full Moon flicks have. It does appear that there is some AI generated sequences, all of the Quadrant nightmare scenarios seem to be AI generated digital creations, which will probably set off some AI vs actual digital artists arguments. My two-cents on the matter is that in this instance, given it's Full Moon who are a very low-budget production house, not a major studio with endless resources, and in the context of an AI generated world, I thought the scenes worked pretty well. The recreation of 1880's London and other scenes of another volunteer named Robert (Christian Carrigan, TV's Evil Lives Here) who experience zombie/ghoul fears, looked pretty decent, but not great mind you. The amorphously uncanny quality of the AI generated creatures and environments looks alright, not great, but I could buy this was a beta version of a new AI fear generator.
Honestly, I thought the acting was pretty shaky throughout, of the cast I think that lead Shannon Barnes was probably the strongest, as the central antagonist she has a decent edge to her, plus she delivers some pleasing nudity and sex appeal to the proceedings, as does Lexi Lore (AIMEE: The Visitor), and Kaylee Banhidy (Bad CGI Gator) as victims of her Jack the Ripper obsession.
As the first of the newly launched Pulp Noir sub-label I thought this was an interesting flick, it's lower budget but it has a certain amount of gloss and production value to it, and it's great to see Band back exploring more interesting and serious tones horror. It certainly one of the more interesting flicks from FM in a few years, and if you're a Full Moon freak I have no doubt that you're gonna dig it, and if you're not so much a fan of more recent FM output I think you might find it a slight return to form, harkening back to the mid to late-90s, when FM was producing gems like The Lurking Fear (1994) and Head of the Family (1996). If you're curious about checking it out before purchasing it is currently streaming for free on Tubi TV (and other streaming platforms), as is the "Quadrant: Noir Version", a black and white version.
Audio/Video: The single-disc release arrives on region-fre Blu-ray from Full Moon Features, presented in 1080p HD widescreen (2.00:1). The digital shot film looks solid on Blu-ray with good color reproduction and deep blacks. Audio, as usual for Full Moon, comes by way of English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo and 5.1 surround, with optional English subtitles. Dialogue, effects and the Chuck Cirino (Chopping Mall) score are clean and well-balanced, the score.
Extras on the Blu-ray include a 17-min Videozone: Behind The Scenes of Quadrant; a 10-min Quadrant - Table Read with Actors; 8-min Pulp Noir Announcement Video, and a 2-min Trailer, plus Full Moon Trailers for Deathstreamer, Bad CGI Gator, Subspecies 5, Evil Bong 3D, Aimee, Bring Her To Me. The single-disc release arrives in a standard keepcase with a single-sided sleeve of artwork.
Special Features:
- Videozone: Behind The Scenes of Quadrant (16:59)
- Quadrant - Table Read with Actors (10:06)
- Pulp Noir Announcement Video (8:19)
- Pulp Noir Announcement Video (8:19)
- Trailer (2:03)
- Full Moon Trailer: Deathstreamer, Bad CGI Gator, Subspecies 5, Evil Bong 3D, Aimee, Bring Her To Me
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