Back in September we injected you all with a sleek looking trailer for Gabriel Cowan’s Sci-Fi skin-crawler GROWTH. Well, looks like we just got our blood stained claws on the first 2 minutes of the Lionsgate picture!
Drawing comparisons to such other cringe-inducing parasite flicks as NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, SLITHER, even SHIVERS to a certain degree, GROWTH blooms when:
In 1989, a breakthrough in advanced parasitic research on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising as subjects were experiencing heightened physical and mental strength and awareness. But, something in the experiment went horribly wrong and the island mysteriously lost three quarters of its population. Jamie Akerman fled the outbreak, which took her mother’s life twenty years ago.
She now returns with her boyfriend and step brother to sell the family property. There, they uncover the key to Jamie’s disturbing past, and the horrifying secrets long suppressed by the town leader, Larkin. Now, a new strain of parasite has emerged and threatens the island once again. Jamie struggles to survive and escape the obsessive pursuit of the local islanders who know that she has inherited more than she could ever have imagined.
Nice! An island of pissed off slugs looking for lunch – gotta love that shite!
GROWTH, which looks to hit DVD on January 18, 2010, stars Mircea Monroe (below), Christopher Shand, Brian Krause, Nora Kirkpatrick, Richard Riehle, Alexi Wasser, Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Ian Patrick Williams, Robert Pike Daniel, Lou Richards, Yousef Abu-Taleb and god only knows how many more 3-named thespians.
Check the opener below!
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