The film takes place in a remote desert where clones are bred to be used as replacement parts for the elite, including a soon to be
President elect Richard Knight (
Peter Graves ). The clones are kept isolated from the real world by workers of the colony clonus, they are promised to be "accepted" to move to
America once they have completed some type of physical training. Once a clone goes to "America" they are given a party and a farewell
Celebration , then taken to the area known as America. In reality what happens is much more horrid. The clones are actually taken to a lab where they are sedated and placed in an air tight plastic bag where their bodies are frozen in order to harvest their
Organs . The story surrounds one clone who escapes the colony and enters the city, he finds his sponsor and later returns to the colony to retrieve his girlfriend. He is betrayed by his sponsor, and eventually finds that his girlfriend has been lobotomized. While the clonus community is exposed in the end, the escaped clone sadly meets the same fate as the others who were sent to "America."
In June 1997, ''Parts: The Clonus Horror'' was featured as an episode of movie-mocking television show ''
Mystery Science Theater 3000 ''. Despite the usual reaction to such a dubious honor, the creators of the film said that they felt "honored" when they saw that they had made it onto the show.
On
August 25 ,
2006 , the court presiding over this case ruled that it could proceed to trial.
- There is a secret community of clones who are being grown so that their organs can be harvested in order to extend the lives of people who are wealthy enough to afford it.
- When a clone needs to be harvested they get "randomly" chosen to go to the non-existent " in '' The Island ''.
- The community of clones is closely monitored by Video Surveillance and uniformed guards, who closely observe the actions of the clones.
- The main character is an inquisitive clone living in the community who finds clues about the outside world, and eventually escapes the community.
- A woman which the community staff try to keep the main character from getting too close to and who becomes the Love Interest for the Protagonist , urging the Protagonist to return to the facility after escaping.
- The project director sends Assassins after the character.
- The main character gets Betrayed by a genetic parent/sponsor he seeks and contacts in the outside world.
- The President (candidate for President in ''Clonus'') is known to have a clone.
- The cloning program is exposed at the end of the film.
The movie reviewing web site
The Agony Booth has a longer list of similarities between
Clonus and
The Island here . The article asserts that even some shots seem copied in the newer film.
