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

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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.

Another evil conspiracy is in the works. This time it's a rich guy who owns a beef distibuting company, in league with genetic engineers, trying to make his product sell more, or better, or something. In any event, they're messing with the beef, by treating it with some kind of parasite. Guess what? Something goes wrong, and the parasites go on a rampage. It's actually creepy and scary enough to work, in spite of the recycled plot devices. The movie offers exploding stomachs (Alien), the conspirators covering up their actions at the expense of more lives (X Files), dumb sheriffs (lots of movies), and dumber townspeople (also lots of movies). There's also lots of bloody bodies, both humans and creatures. The acting is fairly decent, and the quasi-bat like design of the rapidly proliferating monsters is ugly enough for this sort of flick. The action is paced rather well, gory scenes balanced with scientific analysis exposition, even some "Don't look behind that door!" type stuff. Of course, they run the obligatory victim mauling scenes, including the usual couple-making-out-gets-killed routine. All in all, a capably managed low budget horror movie, which manages a fair number of good old fashioned scares.

I am giving this movie a 5, because it had nice gory things in it. That's it! That's the only good part. Everything else is like a zillion other movies with monsters growing up inside a human and bursting out through the belly and the shirt.This time it's liver worms mutated into Spawn like bat creatures that eat humans. By the end of the movie they are so many that it is impossible to kill them by any reasonable scenario, so they just use a big explosion to blow up "the nest". The main actor is the guy from The Invisible Man, average by any standards, the plot silly, the sound average, as it is the soundtrack. Overall, a great average 5 with gory stuff.

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.