This is a review of the Sci-fi film Living Hell AKA Organizm...
What i love about sci-fi, is when some thing happens and the military are called in and they balls everything up and it's down to one person and a renegade soldier to stop it. Living Hell Follows this plot line exactly, but it does it very well alot like the early 50s through to the early 90s paranoia sci-fi like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Andromeda strain and Abel Ferrara's Bodysnatcher. Living hell is a great edition to this staple of sci-fi flicks...
The film opens in 1959, a small boy is being told to remember something buy his scared mother, To make sure he remembers she carves V12 S3 on his hands this stands for Vault 12 sub-level 3. We cut to 33 years later and a military compound is being gutted ready for demolition. the Boy from the open has grown up to be Jonathon Schaech (Prom Night ReMake), who can't get what his mother told him out of his head. He breaks into the compound and explains what his mother told him. A military scientist checking and clearing any signs of radiation from the facility, opens vault 12 and finds nothing, but behind one of the walls is another room, a room with a huge tank. Being the inquisitive pillocks that they are they open the tank and find the dead preserved corpses of monkeys and the body of one of the scientists that used to work there, he has something on his chest, a sort of Root, the dumb scientist decideds to probe his hand and awakens the organism. The organism spreads rapidly, it spreads like vines from a tree and soon the entire facility is taken over. The military and mr Schaech make for the nearest town, where still under arrest Schaech escapes with the female scientist and discovers that the man in the tank was his biological father. After viewing an old video given to him by an old indian reservationist, they realise that heat, anything from gun fire, napalm, tactical nuclear war heads would only make it bigger and stronger. After an incident where Schaech gets infected by the organism and beats it, they realise that his blood in a sort of anti-dote to the thing, killing it almost instantly, when they hear that the place is due to be nuked they decided the only way to kill it is at it's source, his biological father. So they shanghai a chopper, but befour they leave is one of the oddest but quite erotic scene in which the female scientist gets her body covered in Schaech's blood, cue obligitory boob shot. It safe to say the they save the day. I know that my review of the plot makes it sound rubbish but this is far from it, this film was fantastic, it had the feel of Andromeda strain and of Bodysnatchers, a low-key sci-fi horror that needs to be seen as its a great addition to the kind of films that makes sci-fi such an interesting genre, and this was a sci-fi channel original or aired exclusively on that channel, which considering the track record that sci-fi orginals have, there's not much a bar as most suck, Living Hell is one film to watch, it's well made, well written, well acted and an all round great film. i came across the film buy accident and im glad i did...
FILM: 8/10
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