समाचार

There’s nothing more horrible than one’s own body decaying; whether it be illness, the passage of time, or in the case of The Carrier (1988), a virus on inanimate objects causing people to sizzle, smoke, and deflate like dollar store water wings at Six Flags. Unlike an amusement park however, The Carrier offers no pleasures for its cast other than sudden and irreversible weight loss; for the viewer it offers up myriad strange and wonderful regional delights.

Released by Magnum Video in August, The Carrier actually had some good reviews, highlighting the quirkiness of the storyline and its offbeat delivery; which is nice to hear, as its combination of wtf, low budget shenanigans, and questionable craft could be construed by some as low rent trash. These naysayers would be wrong.

We open in the little berg of Sleepy Rock, Oregon in the 1950s; a dance is going on in the church,...