Parasite

Big Sky Video

Beyond Home Entertainment

R4 DVD

I am not sure why I liked this DVD. Parasite is a rather early film; in fact it was described as the first 3-D horror film. The acting isn’t great and the editing leaves a bit to be desired. It looks a lot like a low-budget indie film. Still, it does have a very young Demi Moore in a tank top and it has a fairly good plot. It depicts a declining civilisation rather well.

Doctor Paul Dean has accidentally invented a parasite that has infected him. His employers, one of the big government / private corporations that now run the country after a limited nuclear war, would like to use it as a weapon. Paul has other ideas. He flees into the American west taking as much of his research equipment as possible. He is also taking two examples of the parasite hoping to work out how to kill them. One is in a sealed container, the other is in his belly. Although he can keep his parasite dormant with drugs he knows his time is limited.

He stops in a small town to continue his work. The town is being terrorised by Ricus and his gang. The townspeople don’t have much left with which to fight and the gang soon steals Dean’s parasite and opens the container. All hell, as you would expect, breaks loose as the parasite enters the body of one of the gang and grows at a terrifying rate.

A Merchant, one of the corporation employees, is following Paul and enters the town. Paul must now hide from him, hide from the gang, and find out how to kill the parasite before it gets any bigger and kills more people.

For its age the film has cleaned up well and Beyond has translated it to 16:9 anamorphic, which makes it look much newer than it really is.

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