Parasite (2004)

User Rating:

2.1/10   

Director:

Andrew Prendergast

Writers:

Alan Coulson (screenplay)
Jason Kingsley (story)

Release Date:

1 August 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Horror | Action | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

They Messed With Mother Nature... Now She Wants Revenge

Plot:

An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Dr. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of...

Cast

Gary Condes	...	Nils
Saskia Gould	...	Dr. Christine Hansen
Conrad Whitaker	...	Mickey
G.W. Stevens	...	Jacob Rasmussen
Margaret Thompson	...	Kim
Oliver Price	...	Gio
Michelle Acuna	...	Darcy
Luke Spencer	...	Decker
Nicholas Rawlinson	...	Richard Reiser (as Nick Rawlinson)
S. Khan	...	Helicopter Pilot
Murray Saffron	...	Dr. Willis
Richard Beardsley	...	Boat Driver
Cathi Fredricks	...	Valerie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paul Mackman	...	Dr. Willis (as Murray Saffron)

MPAA:

Rated R for some creature violence and brief nudity.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Fearnort Production

Trivia:

The helicopter pilot is played by the film's director Andrew Prendergast due to illness of the actor scheduled to play the pilot.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: When the "grease monkey" girl is explaining to the replacement chap about their last mission, she explains that is was on an oil tanker off the coast of Bolivia. Bolivia is a land-locked country.

Doesn't suffer from originality

First off, this isn't a remake of the stinky 3-D Parasite from 1982, which I actually like because it's kind of fun and hokey. Nope, this is a stinky movie that stands (or doesn't) on its own merits. We have this team of the usual unlikely misfits that work on oil rigs and we also have some equally unlikely eco-terrorists, plus an also-unlikely beautiful ex-eco-terrorist that works for the oil company now and they're all on this isolated oil rig that is crawling with thingies. These thingies thrive on some new cleaning stuff that has some kind of growth accelerate which was never meant for nurturing killer worms. What we have here is the failure to make an original movie, because there are bits and pieces of a million movies you've already seen in this and there's absolutely nothing here that could be pushed on the viewer as new or different. The varmints themselves look like big toothy snakes, which isn't a far cry from what the varmints looked like in the original "Parasite" but these aren't quite as slimy and they're bigger. Technically I suppose this is a well made film but it's also without any redeeming values. Ho hum, 3 out of 10.