drystyx

Hunt, Steinberg, and West give us a science fiction story about a parasitic organism hidden in a cave that is better on paper than on film, due to the logistics of the story.

Meaning that they have to decide whether to make the film more true to the story or more coherent for the viewer.

"Pitch Black" had the same problem, with monsters in the dark, and it's really best to make the story coherent. The people who want to sacrifice coherence are just being ridiculous.

However, Hunt does make a good effort to make the story coherent while also keeping the darkness.

The movie would be predictable in the end if not for the risk taking and originality of what leads to the end. I believed that the ending would be inevitable in real life if the science ever became nonfiction, but was surprised that the director and writers felt the same way.

The people are in a cave, and unlike most modern movies, they actually seem to have fears and emotions. The Jurassic series, for example, only had Jurassic Park III and arguably the first Jurassic Park showing credible characters in incredible circumstances.

Here, when people are hurt, the others react as if it's real life tragedy, much like movies did before about 1965. If I grade this in comparison with the superior pre 1970 sci-fi movies of credible characters in incredible circumstances, it only gets a 5/10 due to lesser communication skills, but compared to today's inferior sci-fi of non credible characters, it gets 9/10, so I rate it 7/10.

As usual, Asylum wastes a bunch of resources to worship Hitler's blond Aryan woman ideology.

Demaree, Bevilaqcua, Cooney, and Hanstock bend over bakcwards to contrive ways to kill any "gypsy" looking woman that they can kill. This is all that Hanstock ever does, and now he finds three fellow Nazis to help him.

The excuse now is a volcano, and people isolated in Pompeii.

Everything else is an excuse to waste special effects and resources to kill any black haired woman that they can kill. This isn't a spoiler, because Asylum is noted for being a haven for the modern day Hitler worshipers.

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't waste so much on hate like this. No man could possibly like this. A world without beautiful women? No, this is a chick flick, and maybe a flick for the losers who are still angry over the brunettes who jilted them at the dance.

It got old in the seventies, and it's still old. The trouble is that everyone in power is endowing their Nazi youth to keep the same boring junk going.

Director Sholem and writer Dorso give us a very heartwarming story set in the West, giving us many different credible characters, all very motivated.

Howard Duff is excellently cast as an "everyman" in a situation where he happens upon a young man who is about to be dragged by horse through the cholla, which often results in death.

He helps the young man, and the young man returns the favor, giving him a keepsake gold coin that the young man's older brother will recognize, and the young man's brother helps out the "everyman".

What erupts is a lot of action and a lot of revelations about the characters.

I really don't want to spoil the story by explaining the other characters, but the supporting characters make this a great story, and Duff makes it an excellent story.