NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Foreverisacastironmess In the blink of an eye, humanity is lost. A mystery infection that compels all males to kill any potential sex partners rather than procreate with them appears, instantly making murderers out of parents, lovers and strangers. Ruthless beyond belief, as the plague spreads across the earth, so do these soulless men spread their twisted self- righteous gospel of slaughter - until our species approaches final extinction... I bloody-well love this unjustly neglected episode, I think that the concept of it is visceral and genuinely horrifying and its relentlessly tense atmosphere is just dripping with fear and danger. When I watched it again recently for the first time in a fair few years it actually gave me a nightmare and let me tell ya, I don't scare easy! For me it is one of the best and most frightening of the Masters of Horror episodes, and the apocalypse that's presented in the harrowing tale of the slow but sure destruction of mankind is the kind that I find the most disturbing, where we destroy ourselves. And the effects of which that are seen in the story are fairly minimal but they still go a long way to convey a tremendously effective tone of hopelessness and encroaching doom. The excellently done individual scenes of chilling violence really take the terror to the max and are highly unsettling on several levels. Men killing women is a lot less 'palatable' than women killing men, and 'common' ugly violence is something that I find a lot more distressing than any monsters of fantasy. The hateful predatory words of the men about how women being whores who exist to tempt men and have done so since the dawn of time and whatnot, eerily echoes actual insane attitudes about the fairer sex that have been expressed in the real world throughout history. It's truly scary! For me the best performance is from Kerry Norton, she's just the heart of the whole thing. She's very sympathetic and compassionate, but also a fighter at the same time, and you really feel for her all that she goes through and how she ends up at the end where it very much looks like she's going to freeze to death as she has no place left to go. And at that bitter end there is something almost hopeful in her spirit as she looks up at the stars and mutters the poignant final words. If it truly is the end for mankind, at least its last moments are given to one as worthy as her. As much as I like their ethereal vaguely feminine design, I also think that the aliens probably shouldn't have appeared, as it's a lot more ominous when there's a mystery involved, and it's 'up-in-the-air' as to whether it was aliens or nature striking back, or even act of god. But that said, I find it a great mix of sci-fi and horror that plays like a very dark episode of The Outer Limits. Whatever the cold aliens' ultimate motives were, morals and ethics clearly did not factor into the equation. They gave man no more regard than he did once upon a time in his efforts to exterminate a ravenous pest called the Screwfly... I personally think this is way better than the original short story which I found rather stuffy and underwhelming. This episode brings the nightmarish scenario to life in a far more effective way. Joe Dante did a fantastic job with this one, he did his best and I think it shows. See ya!

howieroarkd I gave this 4 stars because it has a lot of interesting themes many here have already mentioned. From the domestic violence, to sexuality and many of the taboos therein. Outside of the gore I really would not call this horror so much as I would science fiction.It's bleak, depressing and hopeless. While I don't mind a less than cheery ending, I'm really very tired of the "humans suck" cliché that's central to every movie. I know you can't get a liberal arts degree today without bowing to the alter of self-hatred as a member of the human race, but how's 'bout as a writer/director we pretend we are different than everyone else in the pack and notice that the ALIENS KILLING THE HUMAN RACE are evil! Right now, if you are reading this and believe that humanity deserves to die, just go out, find a lake and swim 'til your arms are tired. This way you won't be around to direct the next film or write the next book telling me I deserve to die for being alive. It's silly, not thoughtful, and boring.

Michael_Elliott Screwfly Solution, The (2006) *** (out of 4) Joe Dante's second in the Masters of Horror series takes a rather unique story and does wonders with it. Throughout the world a virus is infecting men turning them into psychopaths that begin killing women. Thousands are being murdered each hour but two scientists (Jason Priestly/Elliott Gould) can't figure out what's the cause. The horror genre has always been attacked by women's groups due to the violence towards women and director Dante looks at this as well as various other issues in regards to violence towards women. The idea of the story leads to several other political issues that the director likes to throw in but they all work well. When the secret of the virus is finally revealed it isn't the greatest twist in the world but it works.

jinx_malone and i think it's better by a longshot than the majority of other masters of horror episodes, but i really think the 'alien species is slowly eradicating the population of earth' was a fairly anticlimactic ending and i wish it had been left out. everything i had seen up to that point was scary and effective for me, not to mention deeply disturbing. i would have been more than happy to have been left in the dark as to why or how it all started. learning the cause of the violence wasn't necessary for my enjoyment.i know the aliens are present in the original short story, but i didn't think they worked well in the context of a one-hour episode.elliott gould was great and jason priestly (shockingly) both did admirably well in their roles.flawed, but worth your while anyhow.