Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Bereamic Awesome Movie

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

TheExpatriate700 The Carrier has an interesting premise but suffers from bad dialogue and imagery that at times borders on the narmish. After a young man is attacked by a strange beast in the woods, he is contaminated with a bizarre illness. Anyone who touches something he has touched dissolves into smoke. For a low budget film, this has some very interesting ideas. It paints a compelling portrait of a town tearing itself apart and gives interesting consideration to religion as a divisive force. However, these ideas need further development and are overwhelmed by the film's flaws.The dialogue is terrible to the point of unintentional comedy. This starts from the beginning of the film, but enters the genuinely absurd when the outbreak begins. At one point, a supporting character yells "Bring me cats!" in order to test for the disease. Furthermore, as people dress up in plastic bags to protect themselves, the overall effect is comic.This film is worth a rent or YouTube watch, but wastes a lot of potential.

trashgang I've found this flick at a flea market on DVD. But the quality on the DVD was surely coming from a VHS rip. A guy accused of killing his parents becomes an outsider. One night out of the blue he's being attacked at home by some kind of Sasquatch. He's being scratched by it and get infected by it, he shoots to the creature which disappeared just as it came. What attacked him is never explained. He becomes the carrier of a weird disease. The director Nathan J. White only made 2 flicks, Hellmaster and this low budget. Even most of the actors played only in this one. Nonetheless, it takes only 10 minutes before something happens so that was the good news but sadly it's the downward spiral from then on. You just see people react on the effect of the disease, you know they are melting but it is never shown. After a while the town goes crazy and suddenly they all need to find cats. They even start killing each other for a cat. One of the attacks you can hear someone scream, "Get the children and the cats inside", man, what is this! It's all about running and wearing plastic, strange flick but I 'carried' boredom from it.

PhilosophicZombi I'm a movie buff. I've seen thousands of films, ranging from superb to utter trash, but "The Carrier" was.... umm... something else entirely. I was making my way through an outdoor market, when I came upon a booth filled with VHS tapes from a recently closed Rental store. I found a bundle of gems, z-grade horror movies that even in the depth of my searches had never seen or even heard about. Innitially, "The Carrier" seemed the most tame of the bunch, but I was quite wrong. I expected a cheesy 80's creature feature, but instead, I got a religious, political, medical thriller with the most bizarre imagery, acting, and storyline I think I have ever been witness to. The story is basically about a despised social outcast, who is attacked by a monster/mutant/alien/metaphor/ thing(?) who passes on a deadly disease. The box informed me of that much. What it failed to mention is that the entire film is a surrealist nightmare. It's like watching a twisted medical epidemic version of Leave it to Beaver, but with violent gangs wrapped in plastic, disturbed fundamentalist religious cults and 1950's social satire. I watched the first half trying in vain to figure out what was going on and the second half wondering how on earth this thing could end. The film was not bad, it never reached a state of being boring, but it was so confusing. Part of me would really like to hear a director's commentary on this movie, maybe they would be able to explain all the metaphors and allegories that no doubt existed but just didn't shine through all of the madness. When the credits rolled, i was literally left speechless and I had to take a nap. Yes... thats the kind of movie this was. I don't know who i should recommend this to, horror fans will be left dumbfounded, Indy film lovers will lash out at the effects and muddled ideas throughout. If you get the opportunity to watch this, I would suggest a trial run. You'll be left with a head full of questions but you will be thought provoked.

gridoon This blatant AIDS allegory (ok, we get it, we don't need to see the entire cast wrapped in plastic throughout the movie), is inept and put together with no filmmaking skill (don't trust me, trust the facts: Nathan J.White hasn't directed another film since 1987). It is set in a provincial town stereotypically inhabited by ignorant hicks who, in a crisis situation, turn into bloodthirsty madmen. And after the initial pretenses of seriousness, the film turns "comic" and silly. Oh, and if you can't afford convincing special effects, why bother pretending that gruesome deaths occur, only to keep them off-screen? (*1/2)