Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

BakuryuuTyranno I expected a film similar to Arachnophobia, maybe, given it was about small creatures, well, parasites of a sort. Then after much time passes, it's almost like some kinda Firestarter-type story, with government agents out to capture some superhuman.There were some surprising parts that obviously I won't explain, but "Growth" took too long for stuff to happen and once stuff started happening it seemed pretty odd.We're told the parasites were developed to transform people into superhumans, which naturally would make them more symbiotic than parasitic but apparently nobody's familiar with Spiderman in the laboratory and stuff goes wrong.Oddly, we're told the parasites would devour their host from inside but nothing along those lines occurs. A car appears to be stalking people before one of the main characters becomes infested and I don't really understand why.Basically I was left feeling as if somewhere I'd missed something!

TdSmth5 A girl and her family/friends travel to an island were she stands to inherit a house worth 2 million. By way of an intro we learn that this island was the site of a research project using parasites-worms actually-to improve humanity. How that's supposed to work only the writer knows. Of course the experiment went terribly wrong. Once on the island where she grew up, she receives a cold reception and is basically forced to accept a low sum and leave. That doesn't happen and eventually the parasites start attacking our group. The parasites burrow in the human host and come out to infect other people. They are of all sizes and move pretty fast. We are told that they feed on adrenaline, but it seems that they actually increase adrenalin. We only get to witness one extended infection of a guy who gets sick, becomes a macho and develops superhuman strength. The parasites's weakness is salt, it makes them evaporate. And it's sea water that has kept them confined to the island. The question of course is whether the girl and her friends will make it off the island alive.This movie was made on a low budget but all the energy of the filmmakers went into making this movie look high budget. And they succeeded, it does look very well made. Unfortunately similar effort didn't go into story, editing, and characters. The girl who is supposed to be the main character is pretty much a secondary character for most of the movie. She plays no significant role until the end. And the secondary characters aren't particularly interesting either. Worms as villains aren't very good, unless they do cool things to the human body, as in Slither. But here the budget I imagine didn't allow for some gory deaths. In fact, there isn't much gore or violence or scares in this film. There is one great fight scene though, again, very well done for a low budget movie. The story doesn't keep you particularly interested, too much is told in the introductions, things that should have been told later to keep the viewer engaged. Key elements of the story ended up in the "deleted scenes" part. This movie represents an excellent effort in low budget movie making, it just isn't interesting to see because it lacks what you would want to see in a horror flick: gore, violence, nudity (of which there is a fraction of a second), cool deaths, interesting characters. Note that after all the credits are over, there is an additional scene.

Bloomer Another wretchedly unwatchable effort from the straight to DVD horror bonanza of the noughties. Little silverfish like parasites which variously kill people or control them while squirming around under their skin ran rampant on Kuttyhunk (!) Island 20 years ago, thanks to some Resident Evilly maniac scientists who wanted to create super citizens – and now, it's happening again, albeit very slowly and stupidly.The presence of cool CGI parasites is all for naught because the film fails on all the most basic levels: You don't give a crap about any of the characters, the editing is incompetent, and the script is gaping with holes of illogic sure to keep any viewers in Total Cynic mode. The result is extreme boredom.An opening montage shows parasites swarming like ants in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This never happens during the present day invasion of the island. Instead these parasites, which have demonstrated the ability to leap from one infected person to another over 20 feet away with extraordinary ease and finesse, choose to propagate in the following manner: They infect one young man, imbue him with superpowers and confidence, and make him stroll into the Kuttyhunk Tavern, where he goes all out to pick up one local young woman. After she admits that ' he really gets her', her boyfriend's gander is raised. The boyfriend and Superman go out into the parking lot for a scuffle, which is the cue for Matrix-like articulate slow motion kung fu. After Superman's inevitable victory over three locals, he emphasises his win by smashing the car park asphalt up with his foot. His newly won girlfriend fails to notice the strangeness of this and trundles off into the woods with him for some smoochies. Finally, FINALLY, a parasite begins to squirm out of his ear in readiness to attack a new victim, but her scream panics Superman and he tears the girl's throat in annoyance.DAMN! The invasion's never going to get anywhere at this rate.There's an unintentional laugh when heroine B, the one with the really short shorts, begins to play the accordion one night in her cabin, after saying earlier to her would-be boyfriend that she was going to do this. I admired the film's follow-up in this area when it had failed to follow up in most others. That we see her playing the accordion from the POV of a heavy breathing, hooded parasite dude just makes the moment even funnier. However, such pleasing moments are thin on the ground.As the cliché goes, this is 80 something minutes (which felt like two hours) which I can never get back. CGI tricks and RED camera cinematography are wasted time and time again in the service of completely sloppy material like this from indie filmmakers who haven't got their skills up enough before throwing out a feature with a shiny veneer but zero watchability.

koosnaff Have just watched this and I have to say I am surprised at the previous review. I found the story line quite weak, and although a few of the actors gave believable performances, most of the acting was rather hammy. The special effects were the sort I would expect to see on a made for TV movie, and made me feel no sorrow for the victims. The story was a little disjointed in places, and because we are shown the 'parasites' very early on in the film, there is no room to build any tension and the film almost plods along. I found myself checking to see how long there was left to go. Overall, I give this a 5/10, mainly for the few actors that managed to work their script into believable dialogue.