Monday, July 1, 2013

Infection: The Invasion Begins (2010)

Mild mannered Deke returns home after spending ten years in prison for murder and the town is not amused. No one wants him around, including his ex girlfriend, his mother, and the Sheriff.

But the Sheriff doesn't have much time to waste on harassing Deke because he's gotten a call regarding a meteor crash.  At the crash sight is a small hole in the ground that doesn't look all that bad.  But  the Sheriff leaves someone to watch it while he heads back to town.

Soon folks are acting strange and attacking those who aren't acting weird.  Yup, the meteor had some alien slugs in it, and it looks like Deke is going to have to save the day.

You'll forget the story is told a la Titanic and an old lady is telling a reporter a story.  The whole movie is a flashback bookended by the old lady, who is not an old lady at all, but our heroine with some bad old lady makeup on. Really? You couldn't just hire an old lady to sit in a chair and have our heroine do a voice over so you could pay her for a non-speaking role?

The cgi is really bad and the creatures look incredibly fake. One of the group dies for nothing (which is so annoying), and Deke's mother dyes her hair  way too dark for her old looking face. It's the creepiest thing in the movie.

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