Majorthebys Charming and brutal

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Michael_Elliott The Carrier (1988) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Jake (Gregory Fortescue) lives in a small mountain town where he's pretty much an outcast due to people believing that he murdered his parents. One day this small town because victim to some sort of disease or virus that is spreading around and will burn a person to death if they catch it. What people don't know is that it's Jake who is the carrier.If you grew up watching horror films in the 1980s then you know there were dozens if not hundreds of low-budget films that lacked any sort of creativity so usually those films just gave us mindless killings, gore or a bunch of sex and nudity. THE CARRIER is a film that has a small cult following to it and after watching the film it's easy to see why. If you're looking for some sort of violent or gory movie then this certainly isn't for you. While there are certainly some flaws here there's no question that the film at least has some creative moments.What impressed me the most about THE CARRIER is the fact that it had a very small budget yet it uses the lack of money to build something creative and original. The idea of a virus going around and killing people is an interesting thing to do but having one carrier just added to the entertainment. What I loved about the film is that it had no money but it was creative in the way this small town had to fight against the disease. The costumes look very cheap and that's a plus because it's exactly what you'd expect a homemade costume to look like if these events were really happening.The look of the small town was wonderful and I was also impressed with the majority of the performances. I thought they were all quite natural and best of all is that they were at least believable for the type of film that you were watching. There are two versions of this movie available, the original 98-minute cut and a Director's Cut that clocks in at 108-minutes. I watched the Director's Cut and honestly felt that the film went on too long so perhaps the shorter version should have been the better one to watch.As I said, there are certainly some flaws found in THE CARRIER but there's no question that it's an entertaining movie and one that doesn't allow its small budget to ruin it. Instead, the film took the lack of money and did something creative with it.

EyeAskance Yet another example of a very workable premise reduced to flyspeck through butterfingers crafting.A young man is scratched during an attack by a mysterious forest creature, and is henceforth cursed to be "The Carrier"...any surface he touches becomes lethal to others, melting them down into a puddle of bubbly, steaming 'caput-mortuum'. Paranoia quickly takes hold of the townsfolk, and accusations fly over who exactly among them "The Carrier" might be.For some reason, the parties responsible for concocting this goofy little monster movie felt it necessary to set it during the 1950s. Truthfully, it could be taking place in the goddamn Stone-Age for all it's worth to the story...why squander a sizable portion of your already meager budget on period-setting formulations when time-frame is entirely impertinent to the structure of your narrative? All-in-all, THE CARRIER is not an unbearable or awful film, and is actually kind of fun at points. What's frustrating, though, is that the openhanded potential of the base material is only scantly realized. This could easily have been so much more than a chiefly disposable horror flick....alas, it simply is what it is, which ain't much.4.5/10

HumanoidOfFlesh The peaceful population of the town of Sleepy Rock turns slowly into a hysterical,anarchistic and violent mob when a mysterious disease begins spreading through town.Jake Spear(Gregory Fortescue)is attacked by a huge dark 'thing'.Without knowing it,this makes Jake into the carrier of the mysterious disease."The Carrier" is pretty bad.It lacks scares and gore and has incredibly cheesy synthesizer score.Still the film is funny enough to make horror fans smile.5 out of 10.

ajax_magnetoface has my all-time favorite non-sequitor movie line... which is "Give us your cats, we have red objects!"I watched hundreds of horror films (4 a night) in the 80s and this stood out in the top 5 for originality and great cheesey scriptwriting.