# Kamillions > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kamillions > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kamillions.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamillions > Source revision: 1340154071 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|1990 film by Mike B. Anderson}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Kamillions | image = KMIL02.JPG | caption = Rare theatrical release poster33 | writer = Robert Hsi (story)
[Mikel B. Anderson](/source/Mike_B._Anderson) (screenplay)
[Harry S. Robins](/source/Harry_S._Robins) (screenplay) | starring = Christopher Gasti
Dru-Anne Cakmis
Kate Alexander
Dan Evans
Laura O'Malley
Chuck Bartelle
David Allan Shaw
Andrew Ross Litzky
Allison Rachel Golde
Harry S. Robins | director = [Mikel B. Anderson](/source/Mike_B._Anderson) | producer = Robert Hsi
Teresa Woo
[Sally Aw](/source/Sally_Aw) (executive)
Ning-Ping Chan (associate) | music = Kent H. Randolph | cinematography = [Kathleen Beeler](/source/Kathleen_Beeler) | editing = Ian L. Turner | country = United States | distributor = Ulysses Pictures | released = {{Film date|1990|10|04}} | runtime = 90 min. | language = English | budget = }} '''''Kamillions''''' is a 1990 film [directed](/source/film_director) by [Mikel B. Anderson](/source/Mike_B._Anderson){{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kamillions/|title=Rotten Tomatoes: Kamillions|last=|first=|date=|website=Rotten Tomatoes|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2018}} from a story by Robert Hsi and a screenplay Anderson wrote in collaboration with [Harry S. Robins](/source/Harry_S._Robins). The film was re-edited by [producer](/source/film_producer) Teresa Woo,{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939495/|title=Teresa Woo|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-11-11}} who later admitted she did not really understand an [English language](/source/English_language) [science fiction](/source/science_fiction) [comedy](/source/comedy), and was expecting more of an [action film](/source/action_film). The film was shot primarily in the [Dunsmuir House and Gardens](/source/Dunsmuir_House) in [Oakland, California](/source/Oakland%2C_California).{{Cite web|url=http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/Kamillions/|title=KAMILLIONS|website=www.filminamerica.com|access-date=2018-11-11}} In the film, a [mad scientist](/source/mad_scientist) creates a [portal to another dimension](/source/Parallel_universe_(fiction)) and accidentally transports two other-dimensional [shapeshifters](/source/shapeshifters) to [Earth](/source/Earth). Both aliens assume human form, but they demonstrate different personality traits. The female is friendly and amorous, and proceeds to find herself a [boyfriend](/source/boyfriend). The male is a [trickster](/source/trickster) with [sadistic](/source/Sadistic_personality_disorder) tendencies, hurting people for his own amusement. == Plot == Robins [plays](/source/Acting) bumbling [mad scientist](/source/mad_scientist) Nathaniel Pickman Wingate, of the [Miskatonic University](/source/Miskatonic_University). He works on opening a [portal to another dimension](/source/Parallel_universe_(fiction)) while his wife, Nancy (Laura O'Malley) and [family](/source/family) prepare his fiftieth birthday party.{{Cite web|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/kamillions/|title=Kamillions - DELIGHTFULLY DEVILISH. DEFINITELY DEADLY!|last=|first=|date=|website=Letterboxd|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=11 November 2018}} When he succeeds with [contact](/source/First_contact_(science_fiction)) with the new dimension, two [triops](/source/triops)-like [creatures](/source/exobiology) escape. These creatures possess [shape-shifting](/source/mimicry) abilities that allows them to assume the form and identity of [anything](/source/Universe), and thusly do so with Nancy's cousin, Count Desmon (Christopher Gasti) of [Liechtenstein](/source/Liechtenstein) and Jasmine, a model from son Sam's (Dan Evans) poster (Dru-Anne Cakmis). Jasmine and Desmon are shown to be polar behavioral opposites. Jasmine is friendly and intelligent. Via her [telepathic](/source/telepathic) abilities she quickly becomes Sam's [girlfriend](/source/girlfriend). Desmon on the other hand is ill-behaved, surly, and mischievously malevolent. His mischievous personality drives him to pull terrible tricks on Sam's family via his powers—for example, Lindy (Allison Rachel Golde) overuses the phone, so Desmon stuffs the receiver in her mouth, causing her to go to the ER to have it extracted. Handyman Floyd (Chuck Bartelle) is hurt by some cut wires a vindictive Desmon moves with [psychokinesis](/source/psychokinesis) giving him a severe [electric shock](/source/electric_shock). Suffering difficulties in retaining his new body, Desmon frightens off the [maid](/source/maid) Emma (Lynn Applebaum) when he tries to seduce her. Reverend Lawrence Newman (David Allan Shaw), Nathan's college [roommate](/source/roommate), tries some bedroom antics with Nathan's sister, Angelica ([Kate Alexander](/source/Kate_Alexander)); Desmon, clinging to the ceiling above them, uses his powers to transform Lawrence's [penis](/source/penis) into a [dragon-like](/source/dragon) creature that attacks him. Sam, Jasmine and Sam's best friend, Alex (Andrew Ross Litzky) run to get [coolant](/source/coolant) supplies from the university, which are necessary to prevent an explosion that will destroy half the planet. Jasmine is concerned with doing anything she can to stop Desmon and get back to their own dimension. She spends time, though, with Sam in a '50s-style malt shop, sharing a milkshake with two straws. ==Edit== The film came in at 121 minutes in a rough cut that Robins believed to be the director's cut until Anderson corrected him. Robins continues to pay to have the original elements stored in refrigeration in hopes of a director's cut, which the 90 minute cut released on video and television is not. According to Anderson, such a cut would be longer than 90 minutes, but shorter than 121 minutes. Robins's late brother, Jeff, barely appears in the 90 minute cut (in the malt shop scene, and in the party scene that ends the film), but has a larger supporting role (Albert) that has been essentially excluded from release.{{Cite web|last=Bernhard|first=Nicholas|date=2014-03-11|title=The Hal Robins Interview: Kamillions (NDH Films)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7E7diUfeM|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123234740/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX7E7diUfeM|archive-date=2021-01-23|access-date=2021-01-23|website=YouTube}} The film was sold in German-speaking markets as ''The Wingates''. The film was shopped around outside the hands of any of the creators, and the VHS released that cropped up from a company called SBM of [Chatsworth, California](/source/Chatsworth%2C_California) in 1991 was not authorized, and Robins, who subsequently acquired the rights to the film, dislikes the artwork. The packaging compares the film to [David Cronenberg](/source/David_Cronenberg)'s [The Fly](/source/The_Fly_(1986_film)) and [Joe Dante](/source/Joe_Dante)'s ''[Gremlins](/source/Gremlins)''. Unlike Dante, the film is more concerned with social comedy than referential comedy. Teresa Woo was more used to action films like the Iron Angels series she was involved with, was confused by the brevity of fighting action in the film and whittled it down accordingly, though later regretted it. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060226131727/http://mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh/kamillions.html Official site remnants at] [archive.org](/source/archive.org) * {{IMDb title|0102185}} Category:1990 comedy horror films Category:1990s science fiction comedy films Category:1990 science fiction horror films Category:1990s fantasy comedy films Category:American comedy horror films Category:American science fiction comedy films Category:American mad scientist films Category:Films about shapeshifting Category:1990 films Category:American fantasy comedy films Category:American science fiction horror films Category:1990 English-language films Category:1990 American films Category:Cthulhu Mythos films Category:Films shot in Oakland, California Category:Films about birthdays Category:Films about parallel universes Category:Films about telepathy Category:Films about telekinesis Category:Films about alien visitations Category:1990 science fiction films Category:English-language comedy horror films Category:English-language science fiction horror films Category:English-language science fiction comedy films Category:English-language fantasy comedy films --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kamillions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamillions) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamillions?action=history)). 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