Hero scientists, working in reclusive isolation on a small island (that unfortunately has a fairly substantial native population.) attempt to create a cure for cancer but instead threaten to put all bone and skeletal experts out of work via crawling, a-sexually reproducting, bone sucking monsters; which causes a rapid response to "put things right" by two such doctors facing a serious threat to their profession.
Excellent film of the entirely un-serious school of horror/sci fi film making.
My review is in keeping with the spirit in which the film was made.
I thought that there were effective moments and a very interesting main cast playing in a film that was so underwritten and under financed that not a single actor has a real character to portray and not a single pound Stirling appears on screen except in the fees provided to recruit a fairly heavyweight leading cast of period British players.
Plot establishment and development are cooky. Characters are "thin" and dialogue is used to replace events that the scrip and the finances can't show adequately, or sometimes, at all.
If you like low budget genre films of any era then this film will probably suit you and serve to provide 90 odd minutes of enjoyment as it did for me. Alternatively if you saw the film decades ago, when young, it's probably a great watch in the nostalgia memory banks.
For other viewers I would offer the opinion that it fails to develop or deliver in most aspects of film making that a viewer might be hoping to appreciate in a movie.
I vote a nicely complementary 5/10 for a film no better than it ought to be and no worse than it should be. I had fun watching it. Un-seriously.
Excellent film of the entirely un-serious school of horror/sci fi film making.
My review is in keeping with the spirit in which the film was made.
I thought that there were effective moments and a very interesting main cast playing in a film that was so underwritten and under financed that not a single actor has a real character to portray and not a single pound Stirling appears on screen except in the fees provided to recruit a fairly heavyweight leading cast of period British players.
Plot establishment and development are cooky. Characters are "thin" and dialogue is used to replace events that the scrip and the finances can't show adequately, or sometimes, at all.
If you like low budget genre films of any era then this film will probably suit you and serve to provide 90 odd minutes of enjoyment as it did for me. Alternatively if you saw the film decades ago, when young, it's probably a great watch in the nostalgia memory banks.
For other viewers I would offer the opinion that it fails to develop or deliver in most aspects of film making that a viewer might be hoping to appreciate in a movie.
I vote a nicely complementary 5/10 for a film no better than it ought to be and no worse than it should be. I had fun watching it. Un-seriously.