Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Fantastic!

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Arriving in a new town, the local veterinarian finds that a local conglomerates' need feed for the animals contains a dangerous parasite that grows into a ravenous mutant being that starts preying on the populace and tries to find a way of stopping the creatures.This one here wasn't all that bad and had some decent parts to it. One of the main parts here is that it's a monster film ripped from the headlines as the story revolves around genetically altered parasites spawning from the feed for cattle that is accidentally spread into the town's water supply. In the wake of stories like the mad cow disease, this type of film has been a long time coming, and it's surprising it has taken as long as it has to come out. Even with this, it still follows the tried-and-tested formula for a killer creature film by using a company testing a chemical that is dangerous and accidentally gets out of hand infecting a member of the wildlife and making it vicious, but the topical approach by this one is certainly refreshing. This all serves as a strong base for the remaining fun to be had here with the parasites as they don't look like normal CGI creations. They also don't look like a normal creature, almost part bat, part slug, and part manta ray all rolled together into one really imposing threat and brings about plenty of exceptionally fun action scenes to give this a strong overall feel. The first encounter in the barn where they discover the creature is a lot of fun, as is the extended encounter in the hospital basement where the scene of it bursting out in the operating room and escaping down is the start of the fun as the multitude of searching around finding bloodied bodies before engaging in the enjoyable gunfights gives this plenty to like and the attack on the family house is another chilling action-packed sequence. The ending is simply impressive as the survivors have a giant shoot-out in the sewers as they engage in a long gunfight killing as many parasites as possible then set off a giant explosion that kills everything. These here give this one a solid pace without a dull moment in the film, which is really rare in a movie like this and really makes this one hold up incredibly well. There isn't a whole lot really wrong here. The main concern here is the clichés of the film have all been seen before. This one goes for all the usual elements in the company boss that wants to cover everything up because he doesn't want to be ruined, the corrupt cop that plays into his pocketbook, the hero who's right and no one believes him, and the single female that is drawn into the other side by the hero's plight forcing her to reorganize her priorities. It isn't that hard to follow those stereotypes, but yet here they are here in this film all in their familiar glory and makes for quite a familiar and overall run-of-the-mill effort. This is the main problem with the film alongside some shoddy CGI that pops up for the creatures in this one.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, a few brief scenes of animal violence and a scene of child violence.

Ugggggghhhhhh.Why did i watch this.One night, very bored i decided to watch a thing on the sci-fi channel called; The Scariest Night On TV. First film showing was Larva.What a waste.The film starts off with a new vet arriving in a town called host. But a parasite is lurking in the towns meat and cows. People who have eaten infected meat soon start growing the parasite within them, when the parasite is fully grown they burst out the chest. (No i actually don't see any resemblance to alien what-so-ever.) First of all the CGI is crap. It's clunky,fuzzy and drab.The creature design was a mess like c'mon, the parasites look like drapes or rugs.The acting is hammy.Ladden with plot holes.

Another evil conspiracy is in the works. This time it's a rich guy who owns a beef distibuting company, in league with genetic engineers, trying to make his product sell more, or better, or something. In any event, they're messing with the beef, by treating it with some kind of parasite. Guess what? Something goes wrong, and the parasites go on a rampage. It's actually creepy and scary enough to work, in spite of the recycled plot devices. The movie offers exploding stomachs (Alien), the conspirators covering up their actions at the expense of more lives (X Files), dumb sheriffs (lots of movies), and dumber townspeople (also lots of movies). There's also lots of bloody bodies, both humans and creatures. The acting is fairly decent, and the quasi-bat like design of the rapidly proliferating monsters is ugly enough for this sort of flick. The action is paced rather well, gory scenes balanced with scientific analysis exposition, even some "Don't look behind that door!" type stuff. Of course, they run the obligatory victim mauling scenes, including the usual couple-making-out-gets-killed routine. All in all, a capably managed low budget horror movie, which manages a fair number of good old fashioned scares.

I am giving this movie a 5, because it had nice gory things in it. That's it! That's the only good part. Everything else is like a zillion other movies with monsters growing up inside a human and bursting out through the belly and the shirt.This time it's liver worms mutated into Spawn like bat creatures that eat humans. By the end of the movie they are so many that it is impossible to kill them by any reasonable scenario, so they just use a big explosion to blow up "the nest". The main actor is the guy from The Invisible Man, average by any standards, the plot silly, the sound average, as it is the soundtrack. Overall, a great average 5 with gory stuff.