ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

GL84 Arriving in a new town, the local veterinarian finds that a local conglomerates' need feed for the animals contains a dangerous parasite that grows into a ravenous mutant being that starts preying on the populace and tries to find a way of stopping the creatures.This one here wasn't all that bad and had some decent parts to it. One of the main parts here is that it's a monster film ripped from the headlines as the story revolves around genetically altered parasites spawning from the feed for cattle that is accidentally spread into the town's water supply. In the wake of stories like the mad cow disease, this type of film has been a long time coming, and it's surprising it has taken as long as it has to come out. Even with this, it still follows the tried-and-tested formula for a killer creature film by using a company testing a chemical that is dangerous and accidentally gets out of hand infecting a member of the wildlife and making it vicious, but the topical approach by this one is certainly refreshing. This all serves as a strong base for the remaining fun to be had here with the parasites as they don't look like normal CGI creations. They also don't look like a normal creature, almost part bat, part slug, and part manta ray all rolled together into one really imposing threat and brings about plenty of exceptionally fun action scenes to give this a strong overall feel. The first encounter in the barn where they discover the creature is a lot of fun, as is the extended encounter in the hospital basement where the scene of it bursting out in the operating room and escaping down is the start of the fun as the multitude of searching around finding bloodied bodies before engaging in the enjoyable gunfights gives this plenty to like and the attack on the family house is another chilling action-packed sequence. The ending is simply impressive as the survivors have a giant shoot-out in the sewers as they engage in a long gunfight killing as many parasites as possible then set off a giant explosion that kills everything. These here give this one a solid pace without a dull moment in the film, which is really rare in a movie like this and really makes this one hold up incredibly well. There isn't a whole lot really wrong here. The main concern here is the clichés of the film have all been seen before. This one goes for all the usual elements in the company boss that wants to cover everything up because he doesn't want to be ruined, the corrupt cop that plays into his pocketbook, the hero who's right and no one believes him, and the single female that is drawn into the other side by the hero's plight forcing her to reorganize her priorities. It isn't that hard to follow those stereotypes, but yet here they are here in this film all in their familiar glory and makes for quite a familiar and overall run-of-the-mill effort. This is the main problem with the film alongside some shoddy CGI that pops up for the creatures in this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, a few brief scenes of animal violence and a scene of child violence.

TheLittleSongbird I'll be honest in saying that I wasn't expecting much, and although it was better than expected I didn't get much either. The opening scene is actually quite good having a nice atmosphere to it, the make-up is generally impressive and there are two actors who do try hard and on the most part succeed, Vincent Ventesca is a charismatic lead and William Forsythe plays his role with crusty demeanor that suits him and his character well. However, the monster effects seem cool on paper but look silly on screen, consequently I found it difficult to be menaced by them. The haphazard editing also doesn't help, nor the generic and sometimes sluggish-sounding music. The action and gore is actually not badly paced or done, just that they are derivative of other films that have done certain scenes better, such as Alien with the exploding stomach idea. But the real problems with Larva(or MorphMan) are the clichéd characters(plus none of them are really that likable or well-developed, just how many times are we going to have the "dumb" sheriff idea?), formulaic and very predictable story(the ending you can actually see coming well before it happens because again I have seen endings like that before), the terrible, cheesy script such as someone going back for candy when they are running for their lives and the lack of any real suspense or thrills. I have definitely seen much worse acting, but acting-wise here only Ventesca and Forsythe really stood out. So all in all, lame but at the end of the day not too bad. 4/10 Bethany Cox

The_Void Finding out that a film is a 'Sci-Fi Original' is usually enough to put me off and indeed that is the reason I haven't seen many of them; but to my surprise, Larva is actually a well made and entertaining film that delivers the thrills along with an interesting storyline. The plot focuses on a small town somewhere in America in which the farmers are getting a good deal from a meat company as they're getting free food for their cattle. The free food also increases their productivity; but there's a side effect because it contains a parasite that eats the cattle from the inside out. This is discovered when a new vet comes to town; but it's not long before the parasite has gotten out of the control and has become a problem for the whole town. Naturally the story has holes and the acting is not the best you'll ever see; but Tim Cox's film gets over this by focusing on the storyline. Obviously it's not completely original and has been seen in many films before, but nevertheless it works well in this one. The special effects are decent when the parasite is in its first stage; although it does have to be said that the quality takes a bit of a downturn once the parasites start to grow a bit larger. However, it's not a big problem really; you've got to expect cheap effects from a film like this and it delivers the goods in other areas. Overall, this is certainly fun entertainment and I would recommend giving it a look.

apfraats Having watched 1000+ movies, this one is just another one in the genre. It's has no exciting extra's at all. The story and plot are well known. Only a little different on the outside. Watching this movie is just as filling in the same mathematical formula, with other values for it's variables. Nothing new. The effect's are really bad done. Especially the 'monsters'. They just look like an old coat that is in someway washed but never ironed. The color is also not realistic. It's yellowed. Done with a meaning ? I don't know, it's just irritating to watch. I hate things like this to give a special setting to a movie. Do it with good acting, good special effects and a good story. Not with Yelowing the whole movie, I rather watch them in realistic coloring. All by all, if you're young and new to the movie-watching scene, it maybe worth a view. But if you're older and have seen a lot of movies, you really fall asleep by looking this one.