Bacterium (2006)

Bacterium: Directed by Brett Piper. With Alison Whitney, Benjamin Kanes, Miya Sagara, Andrew Kranz. When a handful of friends stumble upon the abandoned building, they come face to face with a biological weapons experiment gone catastrophically wrong. They also confront a maniacal scientist who predicts life on Earth will end in 48 hours if the accelerated bacterial mutation cannot be halted. As the virulent, flesh-hungry contagion spreads from person to person, rendering each host into a pile of infectious ooze, it begins to multiply and increase in size. A covert military force sent in to contain the spread and destroy the organism discovers the extent of the slithering mutation, but by then it’s far too late for conventional tactics. Extreme measures are required if anyone is left standing in one solid piece to do battle.

“u0026#39;Bacteriumu0026#39; is a movie almost impossible to vote for, because from one minute to the next, it mutates from a 1 to a 10 or vice versa. The scene where the scientist talks about his super-bomb, while the politicians donu0026#39;t understand a word of his scientific explanations and decide to just toss a coin (to bomb or not to bomb, that is the question) is the funniest scene of that kind since u0026#39;Dr Strangeloveu0026#39;. On the other hand, the movie has rather tedious scenes in the military guysu0026#39; HQ and the house as well, for example when the kids are watching the monster crawling in circles and growing a bit, then crawling some more and growing some more… you might watch the pond with the goldfish instead. Of course you would miss the hot chick then, taking her clothes off for a decontamination shower. Strangely enough, no-one else in the whole movie needed a decontamination shower, must be one of those purely coincidental things. In the end, with its ingredients (bikers, monsters, mad scientists), u0026#39;Bacteriumu0026#39; is cool despite the occasional flaws (paint-ball?) along the way.”