“The Amazing Bulk” is a film so bafflingly bad that it practically defies logical explanation. I was expected a low-budget spoof of “The Incredible Hulk” but what I got was a movie so strange that it almost exists in its own realm.
Henry Howard (Jordan Lawson) is a scientist working to make a serum that will give soldiers new incredible abilities. He is frustrated by his lack of progress and faces losing his job so he decides to inject the experimental serum into himself. Now, whenever he gets angry, he turns into a big, purple monster. It sounds simple enough but the movie is littered with odd imagery.
One of the main things that makes this movie so weird is that all the backgrounds are computer generated. Everything from rooms in buildings to parks outside to the cars that characters sit in are all digital. The actors look unbelievably stupid as you see them jog on the spot. It must have been hard to always be working with a green screen. That being said, the acting is still terrible. There’s also some weird C.G.I. characters such as a monkey, a dog in a superhero outfit and a cowboy that seem to serve no purpose. The purple monster looks like Barney the Dinosaur wearing Tor Johnson (“Plan 9 From Outer Space”).
“The Amazing Bulk” is a totally surreal experience. There’s virtually no rhyme or reason to a lot of it. The special effects are so bad that the ones in “Who Killed Captain Alex?” looked better and that movie was made by a bunch of poor Ugandan villagers. If this movie had been made by a bunch of students for a class project, it would still have been lame but this is a real movie that you can really buy. “The Amazing Bulk” is like a cringeworthy sketch you would see on the internet but it’s feature-length.