Les Barnum

The Spinach Grower Les Barnum

He's a noted professor at Princeton University, recently nominated for a Nobel Prize for his research in genetic engineering. And he's also a sociopath who turns his own brother into a pervert and threatens to leave him that way if he doesn't help him find a girl, a girl he tried to experiment on thirteen years earlier and who escaped before he could, a girl who left behind a single strand of hair containing the Methuselah gene, the key to virtually everlasting life. "I can't help but stand in awe at the sheer energy spewing out of these characters like a firehose. Zarhoff (the professor) certainly takes the cake here. He's more astounding than anything Michael Myers has come up with in either Wayne's World or the Austin Powers series. And his mad science with DNA is certainly a panic. Really, the sheer zaniness just takes my breath away." The Texas Film Institute