Carnivore Movie Download

4 / 10

Not really worth a recommendation.
The run-down, isolated Romero house is now home to one of those standard-issue, nefarious government experiments to create a bio-weapon. The scientist in charge underestimates his creature; it kills him, gets out of the lab, and thereafter has the run of the house. A quartet of obnoxious, party-hearty young people (what low budget horror film isn’t complete without these kinds of characters?) intend to have some fun in the house, which of course makes them perfect prey for the monster. Meanwhile, a team consisting of a no-nonsense female scientist (Jill Adcock) and a moronic, trigger-happy jerk (Steven W. Cromie) arrives to try to deal with the problem.

In a sense, this viewer can respect the efforts of this filmmaking team to get their little picture finished, if not really care for the end result. It started life in the late 80s and early 90s, but jacks-of-all-trades Kenneth Mader and F. Joseph Kurtz had to spend the next seven years trying to obtain needed funding. “Carnivore” wasn’t completed until 2000, when it then received a less than stellar home video release.

They tried, they really did, but the plot is so routine and the characters so predictably inane that the whole thing reeks of deja vu. (Still, Adcock gives an admirably dead-serious performance under the circumstances.). A shame, since the creature receives a fairly amusing design, and the atmosphere is undeniable: all night-time scenes in this house ARE indeed spooky, with a decent music score and good use of sound. There is also gore & some nudity for those who crave these elements in their horror films.

Admittedly, the movie does get a little better as it goes along (the pacing is DEFINITELY off for a while), and Mader & Kurtz even go the route of allowing the audience to feel some sympathy for this creature, which is not devoid of intelligence. If only they hadn’t given their proceedings such an open ending; it leaves the viewer less than completely satisfied.

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