What did the leper say to the prostitute? You can keep the tip! This is just one example of a stupid but unresistingly funny little joke that features in "Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter"; a pleasant little amateur horror discovery made by genre fanatics for genre fanatics. Actually, this is perhaps one enthusiast zero-budgeted amateur movie that deserves a little more attention and support, because the ideas and horror knowledge of the people who made this are remarkable and profound. Also the dialogs and cheesy magnified clichéd are bulls eye and quite frankly I don't understand why my fellow reviewers are so negative minded about this film. A young and ambitious journalist, who just proposed to his girlfriend in the most imaginative way I've ever seen, wants to gain fame and reputation by bringing to the surface the malpractices of a local nuclear power plant. Because of their illegal dumping of toxic waste in the water, dozens of people in the area developed terminal cancer. The diabolical board of directors unanimously vote to eliminate the reporter, but he survives the nose dive into a tank of bright green goo and returns as the
Radioactive Reporter, duh! And it will be quite easy for him to get his revenge, because the same people who tried to kill him are now after his fiancée because she might know too much. The radioactive dude quickly adapts to his condition and learns to love killing his foes by the mere touch of his deformed hand or acid saliva. "Revenge of the Radioactive Reporter is quite ingenious and well-written. There's a fairly original detail, for example, that our hero regularly has to the tank of radioactive waste for a dip in order to survive. His methods of murder are fresh and inventive as well. He kills a vainglorious woman by urinating in her bathtub and turning it into a acid hot Jacuzzi. Especially with his journalist's hat on, our anti-hero even looks quite a bit like Freddy Krueger. There's also a downright hilarious scene where he tries to write a letter to his fiancée, but he doesn't get past writing: "Dear Richelle
How can I explain
" and then he has to start over because a piece of gooey and smoking skin fell on the paper. Fun stuff!
