Bad Germs

Movies like Bacterium have been around since the 1950′s during Ed Wood’s era, but that doesn’t mean they are good. I do have a soft spot in my heart for Mr. Wood, but his approach to film making was passionately bad and lacking in talent. Nowadays films can be made in someone’s bedroom with some creativity, a decent camera, and a computer; some actually turn out pretty good. Unfortunately, Bacterium is not one of those films. I will officially give it the worst film I have seen this decade award, anticipating that it will hold that title for the next two and a half years.

The production standards were too low, with unnecessarily choppy camera work and editing. The effects were done on the cheap with some early 1980′s style video treatments; and if I am not mistaken, the gun shot effects were from paintball guns. The melting face effects from the exposure to the deadly bacteria have all the appeal of hot oatmeal dripping off a child’s face. I don’t want to rag on the actors too much for their poor performances; the script was weak as was the storyline, so there wasn’t much to work with.

If this was a tribute film to bad 1980′s films, it wasn’t even successful at that. I am getting tired of bad genre films lacking in any spark of originality, I mean at least there could be an effort to try to make a decent movie.