Growth (2010) 5/10

Starring : Mircea Monroe, Christopher Shand, Nora Kirkpatrick, Brian Krause, Richard Riehle
Director : Gabriel Cowan
Running Time : 87 mins

In 1989, when a team of scientists on a remote island make an invaluable breakthrough in genetics by engineering the perfect pearl, they decide to take the next step and experiment with humans. The result is a deadly parasite that turns its host into a superhuman, but feeds on their adrenaline and eventually kills them. Twenty years later, local girl Jamie Ackerman (Monroe) returns to the island to sell an inherited property, only to find she was tricked into returning to create an antidote to the parasites, that are still running loose.

Talk about convoluted. The girl happens to have the solution to the parasite problem? They already had a solution – salt the lot of them. And why did her step-brother kill people? Shouldn’t he have been infecting them so that the bugs had more to feed on? I know it’s just a movie, but why worry about protecting a cure when you already have another one? Seriously, there are much better genetic horrors out there, so watch them instead.

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