Infected By Killer B-movie

But, as we have learned during these past few years in the news, corporate motivations aren’t always in the best interests of humanity’s greater good. A few dedicated citizens have uncovered Whitefield’s nefarious plot but are being killed off as they try to bring their evidence to some investigative reporters.

Enter Lisa and Ben, two newspaper reporters and ex-lovers operating together to analyze the only physical evidence they could obtain. It is a vile of black blood that reveals a sinister scheme by aliens looking to take over the planet to use our bodies as incubators for their larvae spawn. In other words, Whitefield is run by aliens who are making everyone sick in an effort to make it easier for their larva to grow in us!

I hate it when that happens. Fortunately for mankind, so do Lisa and Ben, who take on the aliens as they rekindle their old flame.

As far as modern B-movies go, this one is pretty good. I mean, duh, you’ll have to suspend some disbelief, but it’s worth it.

There are some very good special effects for the budget. You get a mean-lookin’ alien in its natural form and some nice scenes where aliens posing as humans have their fake skins melt off. You even get a villainess whose breasts launch 8-foot-long arms with big claw-like hands!

I think it has been done in movies ranging from “Alien” to “Evolution,” but in “Infected” they do a good job with the creatures-crawling-under-human-flesh schtick. In some scenes you can watch the nasty little buggers eat their way out!

Lisa (Maxim Roy) is far and away my favorite character! At one point she gets “infected,” and even though she’s tied up, she catches one of the larva noodling through her shoulder. Fighter that she is, she bites out a chunk of her own shoulder to kill the maggot-lookin’ thing with her teeth before spitting it out on the floor.

Now that’s my type of woman.

What’s the aliens’ coolest weapon? An “ovipositor.” It is a special gun that injects larva (that look suspiciously like meal worms) into humans so they can start eating their hosts alive. I want one.

To sum it all up, here’s the moral of the story: If you’re an invading alien force, don’t mess with two investigative reporters in love.

Nathaniel M. Cerf
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