Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Woodyanders A strain of mutant larva threaten the safety of the residents in the sleepy small country town of Host, Missouri. It's up to earnest newbie veterinarian Dr. Eli Rudkus (a fine and engaging portrayal by Vincent Ventresca) and scruffy rough'n'tumble farmer Jacob Long (robustly played with mucho macho aplomb by the always dependable William Forsythe) to stop the lethal critters before it's too late.Director Tim Cox treats the blithely silly story with admirable seriousness, keeps the pace racing along at a snappy clip, grounds the premise in a believable workaday reality, offers a flavorful evocation of the remote rural region, generates a good deal of tension, and delivers a satisfying smattering of gore. The sound acting by the sturdy cast keeps this picture humming, with especially praiseworthy contributions from David Selby as shifty CEO Fletcher Odermatt, Rachel Hunter as spunky lawyer Hayler Anderson, Robert Miano as ineffectual on the take lawman Sheriff Lester, and Sean Kissner as conflicted executive Milo Turner. The compact script by David Goodin, Kevin Moore, J. Paul V. Robert, and T.M. Van Ostrand warrants some extra points for its spot-on stinging criticism of corporate greed, amorality, and omnipotence. The CGI effects are adequate and acceptable. The slick cinematography by Stephen Lighthall and Dave Rutherford provides a pleasing polished look. John Dickson's shivery score hits the shuddery spot. A fun little flick.

peegeedee3 This movie was great!! It showed the American spirit for what it actually is. Create a mess, and lie and cover it up with everything that you have. This is the real nitty gritty American persona, especially that of the government and the wealthy in this country! We see it everyday, and people still say "no, they wouldn't do that". But, YES, they would, and they're doing it daily to the average man in the street, us. I especially loved the part when the Mom tries to tell her little boy there are no monsters in the closet, and the parasite is already eating him on his bed, because, in most movies, even horror movies, they never want to kill children, yet, children die everyday, and in horrible ways, example WARS. Governments lie, heads of companies lie. People who make profit from other peoples deaths lie, and lots of times they make you pay for them killing you. This had to do with trying to make beef better, bigger, and therefore more profitable, but instead they got a killer parasite out of it, (hint, mad cow disease? From feeding livestock it's own dead, diseased not excluded), why attack a movie who's whole point is just trying to show the reality of these practices? Boy, do some people miss the point of some movies. Disregard the acting, and listen to what is being said. Of course, nothing is ever done, in real life, against corporations who gouge, and kill it's consumers, so why should an ignorant person who watches a movie that tells him/her they're taking it up the a-- even stop to think about what they're seeing??

Phillemos The opening, pre-credit scene in this movie features two guys and two girls late at night in a field where they spot a cow. The girls offer to strip naked and do lap dances if the guys tip the cow. So the guys knock the cow over, and to their horror realize that the cow is dead and has some "things" crawling inside it. So off we go, to learn about parasites. We learn that if the parasites are REALLY nasty, they turn into flying, bat-like creatures with the capability of swarming a small Missouri town. We also find out what we already knew: 1) All companies in sci-fi movies are run by morally bankrupt CEOs who don't care about human life; 2) All medical experts who move to a small, rural community in sci-fi movies are mistrusted as quacks by the townsfolk; and 3) all rural townsfolk in sci-fi movies are complete morons. Great fodder for your run-of-the-mill SciFi Original. But the pair of guys and girls disappear, never to be seen again after the opening credits. Where is my lap dance?!?!? Just for that, I'm giving this movie a 3.

Jack I guess I was expecting this to be better than it was, as Vincent Ventresca was quite a good actor in The Invisible Man series he did for sci-fi. But he gives what I would call a rather dull performance here, bringing little life or personality to his character. This is just your run of the mill story of greedy industrialists fiddling with science to create (unintentionally) a killer creature. Actually a bunch of them. They go on the usual rampage, kill the usual nameless bunch of extras, and there's the usual climactic scene involving a large explosion.Nothing really drew me in to this picture, it was just there, on the screen, running its course. None of the characters made me care about them, though at least they weren't too obnoxious. The whole plot seemed a bit silly - I was left feeling as if the evil industrialists were intentionally trying to kill everybody, which made the whole greed motive seem stupid. It just wasn't very well done in that respect.The beginning half of the film features some orange-bathed cinematography and good theme music, which gave it quite a nice atmosphere, but that was about it. As soon as the set-up scenes were done and the characters started talking, it got a bit boring.Overall, it's not a bad movie, nor a good one. Just an overly predictable and uninteresting one.