The Amazing Bulk (2012)

Directed by

Lewis Schoenbrun

Genre

superhero film, mockbuster

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

2.5 of 10 from 79 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A research scientist injects himself with a serum that turns him into a giant purple monster when he gets angry. He tries to deal with his transformation and the chaos it causes. The movie uses stock footage and classical music instead of original scenes and score.

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What happens

The Amazing Bulk is a 2012 American independent live-action/animated direct-to-video superhero film directed and co-produced by Lewis Schoenbrun, starring Jordan Lawson, Shevaun Kastl, Terence Lording, Juliette Angeli, Jed Rowen and Randal Malone. It is considered to be a mockbuster of the 2008 The Incredible Hulk film, as well as other media featuring the Hulk character. Drawing parallels from the Hulk franchise, It follows a research scientist who injects himself with an experimental serum, which inadvertently results in him gaining the ability to transform into a giant, purple-skinned humanoid monster whenever he gets angry. Originally meant to be a parody of Spider-Man with a female protagonist, years of development hell lead the project to morph into a bootleg version of Marvel’s Hulk. Produced by Laybl Productions and released on April 17, 2012, by Wild Eye Releasing, it garnered notoriety due to its settings and visuals consisting of almost entirely reused stock imagery, graphics, and video purchased from various websites. Shunning the convention that film productions should feature original music, The Amazing Bulk takes numerous works of classical music for its soundtrack, including pieces by Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and others. On April 5, 2021, an ebook titled The Return of the Amazing Bulk was published on Amazon Prime by Atom Mudman Bezecny, serving as a sequel to it as it follows Howard as he seeks a cure to return to his normal self while also having to battle a supervillainess named Pam Demic. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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