Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Paul Andrews Growth is set on the island of Kuttyhunk where twenty years ago a group of scientists set up a community in order to devote their time & energy into their experiments, first they genetically engineer perfect pearls which they sell for millions which they use to fund groundbreaking experiments in parasitic organisms that are meant to increase their human hosts strength & mental capacity but also had the unwanted side effect that turned them into killers. Jamie Ackerman (Mircea Monroe) survived the original outbreak twenty years ago & returns to Kuttyhunk along with her boyfriend Marco (Brian Krause) to sell her old family house that could be worth as much as a couple of million dollars, however the parasites return & start taking over the folk of Kuttyhunk turning them into killers once again. Jamie begins to realise that her past may hold the key to defeating the parasites once & for all...Written, co-produced & directed by Gabriel Cowan this horror film features parasitic Slug type creatures that take control of their human host's much like Shivers (1975), Night of the Creeps (1986), The Faculty (1998) & Slither (2006) all of which feature Slug like parasites which infect & alter people in some way. The main problem I had with Growth was it's pace, it's just a very slow going film that feels like nothing is happening & I wasn't keen on all the padding either. Usually films that last for a little over eighty minutes don't require much padding to fill the time but Growth has plenty, some may call it character development but I call it padding. Watching a girl go jogging in the woods a few times is boring, listening to a group of four friends argue & talk & generally do boring things may be character development to some but it never goes anywhere, it never feels like anything more substantial than basic 'who loves who' nonsense & the mystery surrounding Jamie's past adds little & doesn't tie in that well. The script tries to throw in a twist or two but there's no great revelations that will particularly shock or surprise you & even the background story feels thin & doesn't make much sense. Where have these parasites been for the past twenty years exactly? If you become infect with a parasite do you know or not? That guy Justin rips a girls throat out one night & thinks nothing of it yet the next day when he crushes some wood with his hands he seems surprised & shocked in an odd sort of way. It just seems that sometimes the parasites have control while other times they don't. The whole genetic experiment gone wrong scenario has been done to death & the script skips the finer details & is quite vague, we only ever really focus on the four teens & what happens in the rest of Kuttyhuck is almost totally ignored, the subplot about the antidote is confusing, why were those people walking through the woods with giant photo's of people & what were the ultimate purpose of the parasites anyway? To create some sort of superhuman? Like that was ever going to catch on...Between all the talk & teen drama there are lots of scenes of CGI computer parasite Slug things slithering around with lots of squelching noises, to be fair the CGI is actually quite good & is kept fairly simple. There's not much gore here, there's a bit of blood splatter, a guy has his arm ripped off, there are lots of parasites that burrow into people's skin & a guy gets shot through the head. Shot in full 2:35:1 widescreen Growth looks quite nice & sleek although a little bland at times, it's competent for sure but not overly special.With a supposed budget of about $300,000 this was apparently filmed in Massachusetts. The acting from an unknown cast is alright but nothing spectacular.Growth is not a film that will grow on me, I thought it was well made enough with competent special effects & acting but the plot is muddled & far too much time is spent on needless padding that doesn't really go anywhere.

Bloomer Another wretchedly unwatchable effort from the straight to DVD horror bonanza of the noughties. Little silverfish like parasites which variously kill people or control them while squirming around under their skin ran rampant on Kuttyhunk (!) Island 20 years ago, thanks to some Resident Evilly maniac scientists who wanted to create super citizens – and now, it's happening again, albeit very slowly and stupidly.The presence of cool CGI parasites is all for naught because the film fails on all the most basic levels: You don't give a crap about any of the characters, the editing is incompetent, and the script is gaping with holes of illogic sure to keep any viewers in Total Cynic mode. The result is extreme boredom.An opening montage shows parasites swarming like ants in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This never happens during the present day invasion of the island. Instead these parasites, which have demonstrated the ability to leap from one infected person to another over 20 feet away with extraordinary ease and finesse, choose to propagate in the following manner: They infect one young man, imbue him with superpowers and confidence, and make him stroll into the Kuttyhunk Tavern, where he goes all out to pick up one local young woman. After she admits that ' he really gets her', her boyfriend's gander is raised. The boyfriend and Superman go out into the parking lot for a scuffle, which is the cue for Matrix-like articulate slow motion kung fu. After Superman's inevitable victory over three locals, he emphasises his win by smashing the car park asphalt up with his foot. His newly won girlfriend fails to notice the strangeness of this and trundles off into the woods with him for some smoochies. Finally, FINALLY, a parasite begins to squirm out of his ear in readiness to attack a new victim, but her scream panics Superman and he tears the girl's throat in annoyance.DAMN! The invasion's never going to get anywhere at this rate.There's an unintentional laugh when heroine B, the one with the really short shorts, begins to play the accordion one night in her cabin, after saying earlier to her would-be boyfriend that she was going to do this. I admired the film's follow-up in this area when it had failed to follow up in most others. That we see her playing the accordion from the POV of a heavy breathing, hooded parasite dude just makes the moment even funnier. However, such pleasing moments are thin on the ground.As the cliché goes, this is 80 something minutes (which felt like two hours) which I can never get back. CGI tricks and RED camera cinematography are wasted time and time again in the service of completely sloppy material like this from indie filmmakers who haven't got their skills up enough before throwing out a feature with a shiny veneer but zero watchability.

paul david This for me is no more than an average horror movie with the concept of a good story about the parasite thing and the folks on the island, yes I can see the slight connection with Wicker Man here but there are no known actors in this movie and the story is weak and the film suffers as a result.I wont say it was not entertaining, on the contrary, the spoof moments were full of suspense and intrigue and the acting is fine, it is just the story promises so much and delivers so little, they could have done so much more with the story and they didn't.This will likely appeal to a teenage audience and not much more. Not enough horror and solid story for me.

sharkattack1978 If you love Squirm and Slither, then you will love this. It will give you the chills and even the most hardened horror fan will shudder when he sees the "things" burrow through into the flesh of an unsuspecting victim. Growth is a new body horror from the company that produced SAW, MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D which was Lionsgate. I have to say I have been impressed by the horror movies that Lionsgate are releasing as most of them are good. I love nature gone bad movies and body horror movies, so I gave this a whirl. Well let's just say I was scratching my skin about 45 into the film. It really does make your skin crawl. Most of the time the parasites are CGI but they are CGI that you can believe in and be repulsed by and believe me they are repulsive. Through some scenes I actually even felt sick. It is a movie that plays with your mind and your body at the same time. believe me it will GROW on you.