Steel and Lace

A scientist ressurects his sister to avenge upon those that caused her death. I don't know if she's a robot or a cyborg or what, all I know is that she has a giant drill in her tummy that is used to great effect. The kills are excellent and the film has more emotional weight than you would expect. One of my new favorites.

Odd rape rrvenge thriller with a low budget but good effects and decent acting. Well packaged good jo from from VS.

Steel and Lace is exactly the kind of early-’90s direct-to-video oddity I love finding through Vinegar Syndrome. The setup is basically rape-revenge filtered through sci-fi horror: a robotics engineer brings his dead sister back as a cyborg so she can go after the men who destroyed her life. It’s nasty, pulpy, and way more ambitious than I expected.

The practical effects are the big selling point for me. Once the revenge scenes start, the movie gets creative with the cyborg angle and gives the kills a lot more personality than a generic thriller would have. Bruce Davison, Stacy Haiduk, and David Naughton also give the cast a little extra genre cred. (vinegarsyndrome. com)

The Blu-ray treatment is excellent too. Vinegar Syndrome restored it in 2K from a 35mm interpositive, includes both the intended 1. 33:1 framing and the more commonly seen 1. 78:1 version, plus a director commentary and a big making-of documentary. The embossed Robert Sammelin slipcover looks killer too. (vinegarsyndrome. com)

Sleazy, violent, weirdly heartfelt, and very much a product of the video-store era. Definitely staying in the collection. 😁

Steel and Lace was fun, although it dragged a bit in the middle for me. There are some great one liners that me and my wife still quote in the weeks since watching the movie. Our favorite being "that son of a *****!" "Oh we don't know much about his lineage" which got a good laugh and a necessary rewind to catch what was said afterwards.

The movie is fun, but it doesn't set things up very well to make you care a whole lot. It feels more like Gaily's brother is getting revenge rather than her, the victim, herself. The plot lost me here or there, but for the most part it was serviceable.

Where the movie really shines is the effects. The kills look amazing and some are pretty inventive. If you don't care much about the plot and just want to see some dumb fun cyborg revenge, this movie will do the trick.

The slipcover is very nice and there is alternate art available for the blu ray case. Another nice feature is that the movie has both full screen and it's original 4:3 screen format available. I only care to watch it in 4:3, but it is nice to have options available.

Overall I enjoyed the movie and would recommend it to fans of the genre.

Super nice set