Review – The Scourge

Okay, kids. Let’s have a discussion about the limitations of body-hopping monsters. The box for this video implied that the evil menace in this thing was some kind of plague that could conceivably wipe out all humanity. As a member of the human race (at least on my good days), I can see the potential scariness in that. But what we get here is a single monster that enters people through their navels, forces them to eat like pigs, and then exits via their mouths into the next victim’s bellybutton. The United States alone has more than 300 million residents. At the rate of one victim per hour, it’ll take this critter nearly 35,000 years to make it through the whole country. I’m not losing any sleep over odds like that. Add a bad script, bad acting and mediocre effects to the un-thrilling premise, and this picture doesn’t have much going for it. See if desperate