Billy Boy Shrank (Pat Seabeck) is an inmate at the “D. Quayle Asylum for the Criminally Insane and Teenage Strungouts”.
Five years ago, Billy Boy worked for the Little Mietros Real Estate Company as a rent collector. Unknown by those around him, Billy Boy is also a serial killer who was responsible for the deaths of several people in the area. According to Billy Boy, his condition was the result of his father using him as a guinea pig for his unethical experiments. The end result was that Billy Boy became a cannibalistic serial killer who can telepathically talk to and control people. He is also afflicted with unusual growths on his skin, the biggest one growing out of his neck. In addition, Billy Boy became fond of the taste of human brains resulting in him becoming a cannibal.
One day Billy Boy is at the rental property of a fledgling grunge band, “The Doll Squad”, in Seattle Washington. The girls have fallen on hard times and don’t have the money for the rent. Billy Boy berates them but when he sees one of the girls, Reena (Helen Halloran), eat a live worm, he falls madly in love with her. Reena, on the other hand, does not feel the same about Billy Boy. Billy Boy’s attempts to win over Reena are hampered by his need to kill and eat people as well as by the giant growth on his neck that resembles a person.
“Attack of the Hideopoid” was released in 1989 and was produced, written and directed by Rick Werner Fahr. It is a low-budget underground shot on video (SOV) horror film and a bit of a psychotronic mess. It is a very obscure piece of cult film.
The movie is bad all around. One of the reasons that the acting is bad is because the main female characters are not actors but are members of the rock band “The Doll Squad”. The other actors are just plain bad. In addition, the editing is weird, the cinematography childish, and the dialogue annoying. Special effects are less than good and sub-plots are added and discarded randomly. One of the subplots is similar to the plot of “The Manster” 1959.
The movie itself may be horrible but it does have one feature that makes it attractive to its fans. It incorporates some slices of music from some of Seattle’s burgeoning grunge genre bands of the time. The soundtrack and various scenes feature a few minutes of real grunge bands from the era, including “The Young Fresh Fellows”, “Shot Gun Mama” and “Mother Love Bone”. The grunge band performances, however, are few and far between.
“The Doll Squad” was an actual grunge band in the late 80’s. The band also starred in Director Fahr’s previous film, “Rock and Roll Mobster Girls”. Fahr only made three films.
I suspect that the D in the “D. Quayle Asylum for the Criminally Insane and Teenage Strungouts” stands for Dan.