There is something about films starring Shannon Tweed that just scream -- BAD -- at you.

Electra is probably the best one of them all.

The plot centers around Billy and his stepmother Lorna. They are both your standard small town types who work on a farm, which apparently involves Billy just cutting down every tree in the local area with a big axe, I think probably a chance for the actor to flex his muscles a bit. Enter Lorna, who as it turns out wants to be closer than just Billy's stepmother. The action is cut short when a tree, defying all laws of nature and physics, falls towards Lorna. Billy rescues her, but she somehow twists her ankle. Billy helps her home and runs a bath for her.

Lorna gets Billy to stand outside the door for her (??????) whilst she takes a bath. Cue cheesy music. Billy takes a pill, which is later revealed to give him super kung fu powers and incredible strength.

Mary Anne, Billy's girl, enters the fray. Lorna is jealous of Mary Anne's relationship with Billy and tries to wind Mary Anne up so she will finish it. It doesn't work. Billy leaves for his date with Mary Anne, and nothing happens until Billy returns home and is attacked by unidentified men and a couple of women dressed in PVC.

Billy runs inside, takes one of his pills, and gets Lorna out. We now get to witness the awesome kung fu power of those pills. They are...well, not so impressive. Basically, they consist of really lame moves in slow motion.

Lorna and Billy escape but get split up. Billy is led to a road, where a van tries to run him over. He forces the van off the road by running at it and brushing the side of it. The van falls onto its side, and as Billy attacks the driver one of the PVC women attacks him. It has already been shown that these women are really strong, but Billy beats her anyway and ends up tying her to the underside of the van with the use of some STUNNING SPECIAL EFFECTS!!!!

Her friend turns up and saves her. They chase Billy and shoot him with their stun guns, but he survives and throws himself down a cliff into the path of an oncoming car, which stops before the driver even sees him. The driver, luckily enough, is Mary Anne. They escape.

Meanwhile Lorna has escaped to the neighbor's house. The neighbor in question just happens to be Mary Anne's father, who just happens to have a thing for Lorna. His seduction is stopped in its tracks by two men with guns, who apparently work for him, turn up with the two PVC women dressed as cheerleaders (!). They claim their car has broken down outside. Mr. Parker (Mary Anne's dad) says they can use the phone if they do a cheer for him. But then they kill both of the armed men with their batons and shoot Mr. Parker.

They kidnap Lorna. Meanwhile, Mary Anne and Billy are making out in a cabin, but Billy stops and tells her everything about the pills. He proves his strength by bending a poker in half. He reveals who is after him and why, and it is never revealed how he knows all of this. Basically an evil billionaire called Roach wants to steal the serum for himself.

Billy finds out Lorna has been kidnapped and goes to find her. He finds Roach's base straight away and goes in. There he encounters Lorna (who is now Electra, I think), and she tries to seduce him , then injects him in the neck with something. Meanwhile, outside, Mary Anne is confronted by the two PVC women who, after a really long and pointless stalemate, shoot her with their stun guns and put her in a cell.

Now we see the devious plan Roach has. He has Billy tied to a big cross on a table, and the PVC women come into the room and after a bit of action. Roach's plan is for Billy to impregnate one of the women to pass the powers on. The baby would have super strength, and Roach could then create a master race with Roach as the father...or something like that. It is a long and silly idea.

Billy is "tortured" by the PVC women, and he circumvents the unthinkable. Until Electra comes in. What follows is the most surreal scene in the movie, and that is saying something.

Meanwhile, Mary Anne takes sone of the pills Billy has given her and gets super strength. Wait a minute. Earlier in the movie, he was saying he didn't want to give her the powers, because it would put her in danger. But somehow he's ok with taking her to the badguy's base and THEN giving her the powers.

Anyway, Mary Anne kills the PVC women. She actually pulls one of their hearts out and throws it into the mouth of the other. She rescues Billy, and they go off in search of Electra/Lorna. They find her indulging in stage two of Roach's master plan. Roach escapes one way, and Electra stays in the room. Mary Anne tells Billy to stop Roach; she'll deal with Electra/Lorna herself.

This is where the plot gets completely lost. This serum, which only is supposed to give super strength, has given Lorna/Electra the power to shoot lightning out of her fingers...and fly. But Mary Anne can fly as well, so they fight, and Mary Anne thinks she has won, but Lorna/Electra TURNS INTO A VAMPIRE and slits Mary Anne's throat.

Next up is Billy vs. Roach. Roach has a wheel chair equipped with flame throwers and a machine gun. But they only fire forward, and Roach spends so much of his time laughing with his eyes shut and his hands in the air. All Billy would have to do is walk behind him and tip him out of his chair.

So he does.

This is enough to kill him.

Billy runs back to help Mary Anne, realizes she is dead, and blows Electra up. It turns out Mary Anne is not dead after all -- the serum saved her, and the wound on her neck has vanished.

They run off together. Mary Anne doesn't seem to care that her father is dead. Meanwhile, we discover that Electra isn't really dead. She wakes up, laughs, and we are promised a sequel that was never made. Out-takes follow.

Rating: 4 turkeys.