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Deep in the 1980's, when the drug war reached one of its many peaks,
the US-gouvernment had a mold developed in a top secret bio engineering
facility that will wipe out the coca fields of Colombia. There's one
tiny problem with the mold though: If it gets in contact with humans, it
pretty much eats them up from the inside and turns them into raging
monsters before killing them. Not too big a problem for the US-gouvernment
though, because the mold's only to be used in Colombia anyways, so why
worry, right? Wrong, because there is an accident in the lab, and a bit
of mold escapes and spreads rather rapidly - and of course, just on the
day a congressman (James Murphy) and a Colonel (Edward X. Young) came to
celebrate the success of the experiment - and suddenly they, their aides
(Nicholas Russo, Mike Keller, respectively) and a handful of scientists
(Chris Gentile, Ardis Campbell, Rick Haymes, Lawrence George) find
themselves facing a terrible threat - and then the mold gets hold of and
kills the congressman (whose out-of-hands cocaine use must have attracted
it), enters the Colonel's aide's body to turn him into a warmachine, and
one of the scientists, Roger (Lawrence George), defects because ... well,
it was all a set-up by the lab's actual head Carter (David Pringle) to get
rid of all those in the know of his project. Roger doesn't make it very
far though ... As the numbers of our heroes dwindle, those who survive
still find some straws to grasp at, like the fact that there is a control
agent somewhere in the facility that might make them immune to the mold,
and that Carter is actually somewhere in the building and might be their
ticket out. But of course, there's still the mold, the colonel's aide
who's by now become an ax-wielding maniac, and Carter has conveniently
placed a few sharpshooters all along the escape route ... Mold
is certainly not a movie that tries to re-invent the wheel, instead it's a
throwback to low budget direct-to-video science fiction movies of the
1980's, full of clichéed situations and characters, low-fi practical
effects, green goo, macho attitude and let's not forget the ridiculous
premise - and for a change that works 100% for the movie, as it
understands the qualities of the movies of old rather than making fun of
their inediquacies, it makes sure the limitations of the special effects
fit the story, and the plot, clichéed and silly as it might be at times,
does carry some serious messages rather than just turn this into a dumbed
down tale of heroism. As for the direction - it's solid, keeps things
going at a steady pace, and gets the most out of the movie's extremely
limited locations. So no, no masterpiece ... but pretty good low budget
genre entertainment!
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