Organizm (2008)

Mysterious scars on his body lead Frank Sears' (Johnathon Schaech The Doom Generation) to the terrifying truth behind a top secret Cold War biological experiment buried deep below a derelict Army base. Awakened and unleashed on an unsuspecting world the Organizm absorbs light and energy feeds on the living and is growing at an unstoppable rate. Sears and Army hazmat specialist Carrie Freeborn (Erica Leerhsen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003) only have a few hours to unlock the entity's genetic code before mankind is extinguished.System Requirements:Running Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/KILLER Rating: R UPC: 014381486025 Manufacturer No: ODD4860DVD Product Description

Pretty good .....

Its not a guy in a rubber suit movie.....
Pretty good little movie that has decent acting / action and a great
creature. By the movie's end it felt like it had the essence of other
great movies like the thing...Especially with some of the last scenes.. Anyway, i was entertained and can imagine what this flick would have been with a larger budget.
A keeper for multiple viewing. August 11, 2008

I've seen better - a lot better.

Kind of far fetched. Seemed like they developed the hero around the cure. It was like the writers kept changing senerios and adding to the reasoning as the story plot developed, to justify the ending. August 9, 2008

Worth watching, better than your average b-horror film...

This film succeeds as a better-than-average B-horror/thriller, with some notable positives and negatives.

The primary area in which this video falters is the stilted dialog put in place by the screenwriter. The writer fails to "humanize" his dialog in numerous places which cannot help but remove the viewer from the film itself and eliminating whatever "suspension of disbelief" that we were able to muster during the early scenes. For example, while revealing important backstory information in one scene, a primary character is essentially turned into a talking robot, with lines like "the government spent untold billions..." and other lines that no person (especially a soldier) would speak. Other technicalities, such as problems with military protocol, dress, and operations are only slightly less annoying.

In the film's defense, while essentially using a plot line that has been regurgitated by horror writers for decades (plague > death > survival > search for cure), the actors are at least average, and the sets are well designed and used. This is certainly a b-movie, but it is one of the better ones out there, holding its place among others in the genre. August 4, 2008

This is what horror/sci-fi movies are all about

With all the crap that has been released in the horror/sci-fi genre over the past few years, it's refreshing to actually watch a film that is not only entertaining, but takes you back to the days when films like The Blob scared the crap out of people...

This film pays homage to these days....

It's well written, well directed and well acted...
It's not rocket science - it's just pure entertainment - and scary

Any respectable Sci-Fi fan will understand what I am saying after watching it...

I just wish there were more films like this....
Pure entertainment and a film that I will watch many times over and over again

April 5, 2008

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