Parasite (1982)

Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, ... See full summary »

Director:

Charles Band

Writers:

Alan J. Adler, Michael Shoob

Stars:

Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Robert Glaudini	...	Dr. Paul Dean
Demi Moore	...	Patricia Welles
Luca Bercovici	...	Ricus
James Davidson	...	Wolf the Merchant
Al Fann	...	Collins
Tom Villard	...	Zeke
Scott Thomson	...	Chris
Cherie Currie	...	Dana
Vivian Blaine	...	Miss Elizabeth Daley
James Cavan	...	Buddy
Joanelle Romero	...	Bo (as Joannelle Nadine Romero)
Freddy Moore	...	Arn
Natalie May	...	Shell
Cheryl Smith	...	Captive Girl
Joel Miller	...	Town Punk

Storyline

Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.

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Plot Keywords:

parasite | desert | year 1992 | scientist | fugitive | 

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Taglines:

The first futuristic monster movie in 3-D.

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 March 1982 (USA)

Also Known As:

Parasite 3D

Filming Locations:

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$800,000 (estimated)

Gross USA:

$7,000,000

Company Credits

Production Co:

Embassy Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A sequel was planned but never materialized due to the collapse of Embassy Pictures. Robert Glaudini was set to return.

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Goofs

When the first gang member gets infected by the parasite, they refer to it several times as 'that thing on his arm' despite the fact that it is on his chest.

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Connections

Referenced in There's Nothing Out There (1991)

User Reviews

Where is the fun?

Problem with this movie is that it's being a quite boring one to watch. It picks a totally serious approach, while the story is just far from interesting or well written. There is hardly anything spectacular happening in it and as a science-fiction/horror or post-apocalyptic movie, it's a severely lacking one.

It's funny how this movie is supposed to be a post-apocalyptic movie. Once the movie starts off there is nothing to indicate that this movie is supposed to be set in a near future, in which the entire world has supposedly gone to waste, due to some kind of atomic war, presumably. But the movie simply looks like an 1982 movie set in 1982. There are only some lasers featured in it, to indicate that this movie is not being set at present time.

But to be frank, there are far more movies like that out there, that are still not being half as bad as this one though. Problem really is that this movie takes itself far too serious and tries to be more of a realistic movie, though the story has absolutely nothing clever or original in it to justify this approach. The movie really doesn't work out too well because of this. It instead makes this movie work out as a boring one, also since it doesn't have any redeeming characters or some fun or good tense horror-like moments in it.

It's actually quite amazing how bland and totally uninteresting the movie its story is, while its concept itself doesn't sound that bad at all. Seriously, this is all they could come up with? I'm surprised that a person green-lighted this project at the first place.

The characters absolutely don't work out at all, also due to its poorly and unimaginative written story. The actors also come across as bad ones because of this, since the movie features some real poor dialog as well. Doubtful that this is a movie Demi Moore is still very proud off. This movie was one of the very first ones she ever appeared in and to be honest, she was absolutely horrible in this, which is, as I said, more due to the writing and perhaps directing as well, than her actual acting skills.

But to name a good thing about this movie; it has some quite confusing looking effects and special effects make-up. No big surprise though, once you see that Stan Winston's name is attached to this.

This movie is too much of a bore and there is no reason to recommend it to anyone.

4/10

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