Manborg

Manborg (2011) is a Canadian sci-fi horror throwback you can watch online on iFILM. Director Steven Kostanski shot it on a budget of roughly a thousand dollars and the film commits to that fully: green-screen sets, stop-motion miniatures, hand-built costumes, and dubbing that's off by design.

Count Draculon and his demon army have conquered Earth. A soldier who died in the first war against Hell wakes up in the future rebuilt as half machine — that's Manborg. He finds a small crew of post-apocalyptic survivors and they fight back. The plot moves at the speed of its runtime, which is seventy minutes.

Kostanski made this as a tribute to VHS-era genre films — cheap Terminator knockoffs, demonic invasion movies, low-budget sci-fi that didn't try to hide what it was. It works because it knows exactly what it's doing. Watch Manborg online on iFILM.