Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Vomitron_G Now this is a flick you need to track down. It's such an odd & entertaining mixture of things, it easily gains some extra points for sheer originality. Now dig this: The little town of Sleepy Rock's teenage social outcast - Jake, who lives in a ramshackle wooden shack and has to bear the trauma of having burned down his parents' house, killing them in the process - gets attacked by a mysterious black, hairy creature one night. He manages to shoot it and the thing just dissolves in the nightly rain. But, having sustained injuries, Jake now is infected with something and becomes the carrier and instigator of a plague the likes you've never seen before. The infection spreads through inanimate objects only - literately anything you can imagine, from books to trees and what not else - and people who touch such an infected object get consumed by it. And that's basically just the backdrop (main threat) for the whole plot. Because while a fierce storm has isolated the whole town, all its inhabitants pretty much go crazy and turn onto one another. What all happens next, you'll have to witness for yourself. All I can say is that there's a lot going on in this film, often pushing the boundaries of common sense to a ridiculous extent. For instance...: People go on a cat hunt to collect as many cats possible for testing if or not inanimate objects are infected (yes, that includes throwing some innocent kitten against a wall to see if the poor thing dissolves or not). Some priest preaches religious madness, gathering a flock of believers. Some doctor tries to save the town while protecting the carrier. Two clans set off an all out war against each other as if they were the sole survivors in some imaginative post-apocalyptic world. Children are hunted down & killed. A naked woman gets consumed by a mirror. And you haven't seen the end of it yet. There's some blackly humorous ways about this film, yet it's hard to pinpoint where all it might have been intended or not. There's some strange symbolism of various sorts spread throughout the film and allegedly the whole 'infection' can be interpreted as a metaphor for the AIDS virus (at the time uprising as the most dangerous disease of the '80s). Although I imagine it can be as easily interpreted as a reference to the medieval black plague. "The Carrier" seems a pretty obscure and forgotten film and naturally it doesn't have the best of production values. As much as the whole story might get ridiculous on numerous occasions, it's also very original & tense. Pretty much unlike any other movie you've ever seen before.

pkcommerce I saw this movie shortly after it was completed at the wonderful Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The house had a blast that night- great fun! This is a fantastic "bad" movie - fun to laugh at/with, hard to take seriously. The dialog isn't so wonderful, acting is not up on par with the best of Hollywood or anything but this could easily have become a cult film. The "sex among the trees" scene is so ridiculous, so over the top, so gross, it's great. I would love to see it again sometime.Favorite lines from the movie: "Touch the wall, Jake!", "Cats or death!" With lines like this, you gotta love this movie.

lost-in-limbo Jake Spear is pretty much an outsider/ and out-of-luck lad in the small town of Sleepy Rock, and one night he's attacked by some hairy beast. Unknown to him he's infected with a mysterious, dangerous disease that spreads around the town from anything he had touch. It has not affect on him, but if anyone else touches that object/item, they begin to dissolve. Soon he realises, but the towns-folk are virtually caught up in the mass mayhem and chaos, marking those areas or items in red.Oh this was very off-kilter… so unusual. This obscure, very minor low-budget late 80s effort has you glued because you haven't see anything quite like it. The story is original (if silly and baffling), the prominent black humour fits and it's metaphorically planted with obvious details (involving AIDS) and overwrought symbolic messages (that downbeat conclusion). However it was a real nice change of pace with its glowing spirit and undeservedly lies in the shadows of the overpopulated 80s gruel. The film's cheap execution might leave a lot to be desired, as there's no tension and its tame steamy schlock effects don't make much of an impression. Still there's plenty of goodwill, and it can get atmospheric in stages. The story doesn't really know what it wants to be, despite the script's mock seriousness. As it moodily shifts about in many different fields (especially when it turns into something you'll find in an post-apocalyptic film where everyone loves cats and have a fashion sense involving plastic bags and sheets), but maintaining something unique and clever that keeps it always interesting. Gregory Fortescue's central performance is what really drove this one home. Sure his acting isn't great, but he brings the right attitude. The rest of the bungling performances (mainly one or two-offs, except for Steve Dixon) are enthusiastically delivered. Director / writer Nathan J. White's directorial touches are typical and the pace is slow, but engaging and seems to wallow in the extremely cheesy and kooky vibes. Look out for the blatant Jim Beam product placement.

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