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		List Price: $9.98		Label: Starz / Anchor Bay Salesrank: 72290 Released: August 6, 2002
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Parasite Reviews:
Goobers Of The Wasteland...
2009-11-18 - Dr. Paul Dean (Robert Glaudini) has developed an organism that burrows into a human host and drains it of all life. The creature can also latch on to its victims, sucking them dry! Dean realizes that his company wants to use these PARASITE(s) for eeevil purposes, so he sets out to destroy the little monsters. Unfortunately, this takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where roving gangs of whimpy twenty-somethings look for people to annoy! Paul is "terrorized" by one such gang, led by a gangly Ted Danzen look-alike w/ official 80s gangmember® hair! Luckily, Patricia (Demi Moore!!) is on the scene to assist Paul in his endeavor. PARASITE is another wacky Full Moon production that I just had to have. It sits prominantly next to HIDEOUS!, BLOOD DOLLS, PUPPETMASTER, and HEAD OF THE FAMILY on my schlock-shelf. While not as crazy or endearing as these other classics, PARASITE is worth a watch on some lazy saturday afternoon...

PARASITE - Demi Moore's first starring role
2009-10-22 - One of the first of its kind, in fact I think that it had some influence on ALIEN if you watch with that in mind. Good ols schlock horror/sci-fi. One of my favorites! Parasite

It hurts my head that I watched the whole thing.
2009-02-08 - Parasite (Charles Band, 1982)

I only know about this pile of dung because Exodus wrote a song about it a couple of years after its release, and because of that I've always kind of half-wanted to see it; I didn't know until I fired it up that it was the breeding ground of one of the eighties' hottest stars, Demi Moore. But neither my abiding love for Exodus (and especially the Pleasures of the Flesh album, from which "Parasite" hails) nor my respect for the eighties acting of Demi Moore could stop me from wanting to pick up the monitor and heave it out the window in order to stop myself from having to watch this monstrosity. And if I could afford a new monitor, I probably would have.

Parasite takes place in a post-war future where food and water are at a premium, but life is cheap. A rogue scientist, Paul Dean (The Princess Diaries' Paul Glaudini), has fled the lab where he worked to a small desert town. Most of the inhabitants are less than welcoming, but the owner of the last surviving bar in town (TV character actor Al Fann, who last appeared on the big screen in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!) and a local lemon farmer (Moore) don't seem to have any problem with him. Those who do include a local gang, who'd be a biker gang if anyone had gas left, and the Merchants, the evil corporate overlords who run things in this country, and who have sent an agent (Gray Lady Down's James Davidson) to try and recapture the scientist. Because, you see, the scientist is not alone. (I'm pretty sure, given the title of the movie, it's not a great spoiler to tell you what's tagging along.)

Everything about this movie is so bad that really, watching a washed-out VHS transfer is the only way it makes sense to attempt to see this film these days. After all, a digitally remastered crisp DVD with a new sound transfer and all that will just point out the film's glaring problems, such as the fact that no one involved with this movie (save, arguably, Miz Moore) can act his or her way out of a paper bag. It's impossible to tell from the copy I watched, but I'm guessing the sound and lighting were as subpar as the acting. (Quality will tell even through an awful transfer; various horrendous DVD transfers of Bela Tarr movies will attest to that.) What isn't subject to debate is the quality of the special effects, which easily eclipse the horrendousness of everything else in the movie. Sometimes a below-average flick can get away with a great deal if the special effects are great (see, for example, Alien vs. Predator); on the other end of the stick, though, a movie has to be really, really good to get away with badly-made special effects, and oftentimes even that doesn't save it. Parasite is by no means a good, or even a decent, movie, and so the bad effects become the focal point of the movie, something to laugh at so you can try and ignore the fact that you've just wasted an hour and a half of your life on this crap. (half)



Routine at best
2007-11-10 - The setting is the California desert in a post -apocalyptic future,where a scientist (Robert Glaudini) is on the run from "The Merchants".They want the pair of deadly parasites that he has developed,one of which is in a canister and the other is inside him ,growing and feeding on his vital parts .The parasites are giant worms with sharp teeth and a ravenous appetite and the scientist must find a way to destroy them before they escape and devastate what is left of the human species .

This was originally made in 3-D and thus we get lots of scenes of the worms leaping at the camera .In addition we get not only an Alien like belly buster scene but are treated to a head-buster as well .The effects are quite good and pretty gory too but are few in number-budgetary constraints probably being the reason

There is an early role for Demi Moore and she and Glaudini give decent performances but the pace is too slow and the movie lacks tension .The movie is an adequate piece of low budget schlock but needed more zip and vigour in direction and writing to lift it above the pedestrian

I got a beast in my belly...pass the Pepto-Bismol...
2005-09-23 - I knew I was in trouble last night shortly after the credits began rolling for the film Parasite (1982) as the name Charles Band came up, not only as producer, but also as the director. If you're not familiar with the name, know that he's the man behind such cinematic atrocities like Laserblast (1978), The Day Time Ended (1980), Robot Holocaust (1986), and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)...that's not to say every one of his cinematic ventures stink on ice, as when you churn out as many crummy films as he does, you're bound to get lucky once in awhile...but that's not the case here. Starring in the film is Robert `Who?' Glaudini (Wavelength, The Alchemist) and a young Demi `It's pronounced dem-EE, you fool' Moore (St. Elmo's Fire, One Crazy Summer, G.I. Jane), in her first starring role (her first actual role was in a 1981 made for TV feature titled Choices). Also appearing is Luca Bercovici (Rockula, Scanner Cop), Al Fann (Curse II: The Bite), one time member of the jailbait girl band The Runaways turned actress Cherie Currie (Foxes, Twilight Zone: The Movie), Tom Villard (One Crazy Summer, Heartbreak Ridge), Miss Vivian Blaine (Guys and Dolls), James Davidson (The Mechanic), and B movie favorite Cheryl `Rainbeaux' Smith (Caged Heat, Revenge of the Cheerleaders, Vice Squad), in a minor, but certainly revealing role...

After a really awkward opening sequence, one that, I think, tried to set up how a scientist named Paul Dean (Glaudini) accidentally infected himself with a parasitic organism and escaped from a secure facility, we see him driving around in a van, stopping at an abandoned work camp, encountered some violent, mutated types. He manages to fight them off (in a slow motion fight sequence) and then leave, making me wonder what the hell was the point of the past ten minutes of footage...now is probably a good time to mention the story is supposed to take place after some sort of apocalyptic, nuclear event, and atomic fallout has ravaged the major cities. Anyway, Dean boogies on down the road and eventually arrives at a small town, rents a room in a flophouse run by an old woman named Maggie (Blaine), who informs Dean that, while she doesn't clean up the rooms, she would participate in helping to mess them up, if you know what I mean...file this under `things that make you go blecch'. All right, so here's the deal...Dean created these parasitic organisms for some mysterious corporation/gooberment agency (Why? Who knows? It's never explained), realized the dangers, destroyed the all the creatures but two, one of which is in a silver container he has with him, and the other actually inside his belly. Now he's trying desperately to figure out how to kill them before it's too late, as the more they eat, the bigger they get, and then the hungrier they become...some local punks, led by a dink named Ricus (Bercovici), cause trouble and steal the container housing the specimen, which they let loose upon opening (they thought valuable goodies be inside)...Paul finds refuge with the local goodie goodie named Patricia (Moore) who helps him for no good reason, but may regret her assistance as Paul is being pursued by a ruthless corporate agent named Wolf, who drives a sweet, black Lamborghini Countach (complete with flip up doors), carries a wicked laser wand, and is intent on recovery what was stolen, no matter the cost...

Was Parasite, touted as "The First Futuristic Monster Movie in 3-D", the beginning of the short lived 3-D fad of the early 80s, one that brought us such craptastic features like Jaws 3-D (1983), Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D (1982), Amityville 3-D (1983), and Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)? Most likely...actually, the film did pretty well, costing well under half a million and raking in around seven million, probably mostly due to the novelty of the stereoscopic aspect (it sure wasn't the stellar story or amazing performances that drew audiences). Sadly, that element didn't carry over onto the DVD release, so what we're left with are a lot of scenes where things are flying towards the camera for no apparent reason. The story is fairly haphazard, and limps along hobbled by unnecessary plot points, like the bit about those populating the story are the remnants of post apocalyptic event. The only good reason I could discern for the inclusion of this was it being a way to explain why there are so few actual people in the film, which, in reality, was probably due to a limited budget. Ultimately it could have been left out (along with a number of other things), and the story would have been just as good (good, in this case meaning rotten). I'm unsure what prompted those involved to cast Robert Glaudini as the lead, as he was hardly hero material, feeling like secondary character at best here, one who would be killed off well before the movie ended. Overall the acting is pretty crummy, but this is more due to deficiencies within the script rather than poor performers, in my opinion. In one scene where Patricia rescues Dean, she's trying to get him to talk, but he's tight lipped, and she issues the following bit of nonsense..."You don't talk much. Maybe a little rattlesnake tea will loosen your tongue a little." Who in the world talks like that? It's not an overly awkward bit of dialogue, but just enough to create a niggling sense of annoyance of having to listen to it...and the film is littered with clunky stuff like this...and get this, the movie had three, count `em, three writers. I did like the make-up effects featured on the people eventually consumed by the parasite, as it was somewhat gruesome, but the parasites themselves, created by Stan Winston, looked odd, like slimy, wriggling, pulsating ten-pound sacks of mud with huge mouths and lots of razor sharp teeth. We actually don't see a whole lot of them, but when we do, the sequences are memorable and even gory. I think my favorite bit happened after the gang of youths stole the container Dean was keep the specimen in, thinking it stored something of value, and the one punk opens it up to see what's inside. Now, any normal person would have probably dumped the contents out on the floor, but this genius sticks his hand inside the darkness of the container and sez "There's something wet in here." As you can imagine, he gets what he deserves...all in all I think this could have been a better feature, had it not been hamstrung with such poor writing, which is a lot more noticeable sans the 3-D effects of the original release.

Anchor Bay Entertainment provides a decent wide screen (the aspect ratio is listed as 2.00:1 on the DVD case), enhanced for 16X9 TVs, picture on this DVD, but since the film was originally presented in 3-D, there's a noticeable grainy quality through while watching the movie in regular old 2-D, which bothered me a little at first, until I got used to it...as far as the audio, there's two options one being Dolby Surround 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0. Special features include a theatrical trailer, touting the movie's amazing stereoscopic process, along with interesting liner notes by Fangoria writer Michael Gingold, and a 5X7 reproduction of original poster art, both contained on a DVD insert.

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By the way, if you're interested in buying this DVD, I'd suggest doing what I did and buying the Anchor Bay DVD Fright Pack: Man's Worst Friends, which features six films including Parasite (1982), Lucio Fulci's The Black Cat (1989), Slugs: The Movie (1988), Bruno Mattei's Rats: Night of Terror (1984), Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978), and Dario Argento's The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971). It's available here on the Amazon website, at a really good price, and cheaper than buying the individual releases.