5/5 Can this really happen?
  by InternetMom13 (Western NY)
Ever since watching The Clonus Horror in the early 1980s (with my young son) I've talked about it but nobody except my son and I were familiar with this movie. I was thrilled to find it on Amazon, not only so my son and I could watch, perhaps laugh at things we then found frightening, but so I could share it with friends. The film's premise is wealthy, powerful people have clones of varying ages so when they're in need of an organ one is readily available. With scientific and medical advances it makes one wonder if this could ever become a reality.

2/5 Why buy this version...
  by John Manigrasso (asbury park, NJ)
When for just (lots and lots and lots) of pennies more, you can buy Myster Science Theater 3000, Volume 12, which includes an AWESOME riff on the very same movie? The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 12 (The Rebel Set / Secret Agent Super Dragon / The Starfighters / Parts: The Clonus Horror) It makes the movie watchable and re-watchable.

BTW, Michael Bay's movie "The Island" was a total ripoff of "Parts: The Clonus Horror," with some varying bits of other better sci-fi movies as well. Dreamworks eventually reached a 7-figure settlement with the creators of "Parts."



4/5 Clonus Horror enjoyable
  by K. Winters (Mokena, IL United States)
A great retro 70's horror movie, special effects a little cheesy but an interesting story. Tim Donnelly was good in this role - felt very sorry for his character!

3/5 Very Dated View of An Issue Rising in Importance
  by Scott (Texas)
This VERY 70's movie is about a race of cloned beings that are kept docile in a private clone farm. The purpose of the clone farm is to serve people classified as "important" by creating clones of them to use as organ donors. The poor clones have no idea of what's going on. They don't know that they're organ donors. Heck, they don't even know that they're clones. When the owners of the clone farm need a vital organ in a hurry, they give the clone a quick party and say, "We're going to send you to America today." Then the clone is slaughtered.

All the clones want to go to America because they're taught from birth that America is a great place. Of course, none of the clone farm workers makes an effort to inform the clones that the farm is already located IN America. To keep the clones from getting suspicious of the truth, lobotomies are given to each and every clone on the farm shortly after creation. Despite such precautions, one clone, Richard, tries his darndest to discover what America is.

Parts: The Clonus Horror succeeds in showing the potentiality of losing ethical values when pushing scientific methods to extend life, and, although it tackles this issue wonderfully, it has a made-for-TV look that I just can't shake off. No wonder the film was chosen as fodder for one of the MST3K episodes. You can either use it as an ethical study guide or just something to ridicule, and it works either way. Interesting...

5/5 Timeless science fiction.
  by MaJe (Medford, OR USA)
I viewed this movie YEARS ago and never forgot it. To me, that's what marks a timeless movie. There has been a remake since, but it doesn't seem to work somehow. After viewing this you ask yourself.....can it really happen?