It seems that horror films today have picked the top boogey
man of the heap. With TWILIGHT we've decided not to fear vampires for a while
and with the box office failure of THE WOLF MAN we've decided to use the stand
by creature we love to fear: the zombie. So many zombie movies are out there as
well as the successful book THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE making the best seller
list that it only seems natural that film makers would make this the creature
de jour of our time. Far too much so.
THE TERROR EXPERIMENT may not use our typical zombie but
that's how things are going at present. We use variations of the zombie rather
than stick with the stand by regular living dead. In this film a secret lab has
a problem when a formula being worked on is released throughout the building.
Except that it doesn't hit all floors. But the ones it does find its way to
infects those working there and turns them into mind blowing violent zombies.
Okay maybe not quite zombies like we're used to. Remember I
said they'd changed a little? These zombies are prone to violence and move as
fast as humans do. It still takes a head shot to put them down and wounds just
tend to piss them off. Naturally there are a few survivors and their goal is to
get out. One survivor's daughter was in day care below so he's concerned about
her and rather than just find an escape looks for her as well. The rest are the
stereotypical mish mash.
While all of this is going on the building has been put into
quarantine. The fire chief is doing his
best to control the situation until the CDC arrives to take over. When they do,
it becomes a question of trying to help the survivors or simply destroy the
building with all left inside to prevent the contagion spreading.
This sounds like a decent idea for a movie and on the whole
it's not bad. But it lacks something, that extra oomph that would make it
either a more horrifying movie or a more sympathetic one. The acting is basic
and no one, including the star names attached over exceeds the expectations of
a B movie. It could be that the story is becoming par for the course or it
could just be that the film lacks that spark that makes it move to over the top
status. As it is this DVD is just the usual without any real reason to make it
that one you must see. If, however, the store shelves are bare or the Redbox is
low, it might make a decent film to watch.
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