A scientist helps a comic-book artist to become the superhero he has created in order to battle a vicious gang of rapists.
Practical Effects
Cardboard-and-duct-tape suit that redefines 'superhero.'
Direction
Bookwalter's $3000 budget stretched to cosmic absurdity.
Acting
Leonard's committed despair as wannabe Batman.
Director
J.R. Bookwalter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in two weeks on 8mm film in Akron, Ohio for roughly $3,000. Director Bookwalter was 19.
Part of the 1980s direct-to-video boom that let teenagers become 'filmmakers' with camcorders and delusions.
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