Synopsis
One touch and you're gone!
An orphaned teen is attacked by a mysterious beast and struck with an infectious disease that turns everything he touches into a death trap.
1988 Directed by Nathan J. White
An orphaned teen is attacked by a mysterious beast and struck with an infectious disease that turns everything he touches into a death trap.
Stadt des Grauens, La ciudad maldita (La nube asesina), Contagio 1992, 恶疾蔓延
Delightful ‘Midas touch’ disease spreading, angry mobs, cats, plastic/garbage bag absurdity.
'Put your face on it!!'
Surface transmission is still far scarier as I won't clean anything. Even with everything that happened, I didn't clean any more thoroughly or often than I ever have.
I mean, sure, if the microwave gets really gross (and as we've been cooking most of our meals in it, that happens) I'll clean it. I just mean the type of cleaning people were doing at the beginning before they knew any better - I was absolutely certain I did not have the energy for that and still do not.
Watched for video victim (been doing these for a year but sure, create a tag for it now)
Has maybe more Jesus than I was in the mood for, even as commentary or whatever
"Don't touch me! I don't want to die!"
A virus outbreak in a small rural area causes people to lose their minds and start dressing in garbage bags. Hey, at least they saved money on costumes!
I watched this out of curiosity and because of the current worldwide pandemic. I was all on board until they planned to use cats as guinea pigs in an attempt to root out the virus. The acting is not all bad and the idea keeps the thing going nicely, but it's pretty low budget and not overly involving, and just a bit goofy.
Cats, cats is the answer to survival. They are essential to have around, especially in times of a pandemic. The Carrier got that right, but for all the wrong reasons. It is creative though, however cruel it is, the use of cats, chickens and birds and other animals as a litmus paper to seek out infected objects or "red" objects, as the movie calls it. It also serves as an effective comic relief, whether intentional or not. The sight of an angry mob throwing cats at random objects with aggression and them sticking and dissolving into the wall is just too hilarious. Real absurd, looney tunes shit. "Touch the wall, bart!" #1
I’m always satisfied when I learn something important from a movie. The thing I learned from this movie: never build my sleepy small town alongside a gorge whose crossing provides the only way out. Yes, it took this movie to make me realize this. It explains why all of those gorge-side properties are such inexpensive investments! Well, that’s one real life disaster averted, anyway.
The Carrier plays out like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone with its “what if” scenario of bizarre circumstance and the human reaction to it. The concept here is that everyone in this sleepy town is trapped in it, and anyone that touches an object contaminated by our “carrier” anti-hero slowly melts away at the point…
I’d like to think someone came up with the line of dialogue, “If you weren’t hoarding cats, our friends would still be alive!” and then gave it to a screenwriter and challenged them to write a movie around it. I’m so in love with that line out of context. What are the circumstances that lead to keeping people alive by allowing them access to cats? Honestly, it barely makes sense within the film, but it is shortly followed by an angry mob leader shouting “Cats… or death?! CATS… or DEATH!?!” Needless to say, I thought this was a great movie.
It’s about this guy who is an outcast in town because he accidentally killed his parents, and he gets attacked…
In this oddball 80s horror film a small religious town is overrun with a disease that causes people to randomly melt when they come into contact with it.
Not the extravagant melting of films like Street Trash, Body Melt or the Incredible Melting Man but more of a mediocre melting where people just slowly disappear leaving their clothes behind. It still makes for some ridiculous scenes though. And what do people do to avoid the disease? Awkwardly wrap themselves in plastic bags duhhhh! As the small town paranoia grows people form mobs and chaotic violence ensues.
Ridiculous dialogue, cheesy acting and lots of bizarre momemts make this film pretty unique. I do wish I liked it a little more but it didn't completely click with me. It's also such a weird movie that I need to give it another viewing at some point.
Cool poster though.
Goober gets scratched by a creature called "the black thing," goes around infecting inanimate objects with some kind of flesh-dissolving virus, and the rest of the movie is people walking around in trash bags, using animals to test which objects are infected. This is conceptually extremely bonkers but it looks very drab and there are zero fun performances, which for me are 2 major Donny Don'ts in the movies. It's more fun to talk or read about than it is to actually watch or fight off sleepy time.
The idea behind this film is so original, and body horror is especially freaky
I don't know why the kid was such an outcast but the town were shit to him and you know what they deserved their fate.
I enjoyed seeing the town turn against itself, religion against science, and the high valued need for cats. CATS OR DEATH
- "I can see now cats aren’t what you need! Please accept the lord as your savior!"
a bunch of aliens gather to do a mountain of special K & watch night of the living dead, the crazies, & apprentice to murder - except their tv doesn't have sound. then they immediately come to earth & make a movie. and they also love cats. that's the only possible explanation for this. zero pacing, but just let it's unbelievable dialogue & otherworldly assembly hypnotize you. truly unreal. this movie gave me a hangover. highest praise for all aliens involved.
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Watching this strange little infection shocker might have felt more chilling six months ago than it does at this relatively optimistic point of the COVID catastrophe: most places near me are now open again or opening soon, while I and a bunch of people I know have already received both vaccination shots. (Then again, would I have chuckled as hard last October at a literally toxic Dr. Seuss book?) Regardless of the timing, Nathan J. White's Michigan-lensed oddity presents an uncanny vision of what could have been my reality, had I experienced the pandemic in a place where life revolves around either one church or one tavern. Those are the factions drawn when a…