Rage

A guy I met at a local munch event lent me this film on the premise that it was pretty nasty.  Well it is, but not because it takes a hard stomach to watch it.  You see the plot is simple.  Like a lot of other horror films of the 'lets torture teenagers' genre, it starts off with something nasty.  In this case a young couple are being tortured by a mad scientist whose suppossed to be Russian, but looks decidely Mexican, kind of like if Ricardo Montalban had been asked to play Stalin (that would have been a good film by the way).

After the man in the couple is turned into a blood crazed zombie creature, he escapes but not before the Mexican/Russian Mad scientist is bitten.  More on that later.  Anyway blood crazed zombie creature only gets so far before dying, upon which its corpse is eaten by Vultures.  The Vultures then turn into mutant birds and go around killing everything they can.  Meanwhile some stupid teenagers in a winnebago are having a fight over who sleeps with who when they crash, surprise surprise.  Shortly after they're attacked by the Vultures and a black guy is killed.  This is followed by another being devoured by mutant leeches before the remaining three end up hiding in the mad scientist's shack.

After being attacked by another zombie creature and with the male somehow surviving being electrocuted, they are captured by the mad scientist, who promptly experiments on the women.  Then we're given nasty backstory about how the mad scientist just wanted to cure cancer but saw his experiments given to Western corporations so they could profit from treatments.  Mad Scientist ends up imprisoned in a madhouse before escaping and heading to America to try and make the corporations see sense.  

When he can't, he resorts to terrorismn and extortion which doesn't get him anywhere because the Vultures throw a wrench in his plans.  Long haired hippie man somehow manages to get a gun and get free but after a lot of shooting, punching, stabbing and whatnot, Mad Scientist beats him to death with a dead vulture before telling the last teenager she will become the Eve of a new Human Race because he's become a God.  Sadly at this point Long haired Hippie cuts off his head and then nearly gets strangled by Mad Scientist's headless body before the last teenager cuts his head in two.

Overall I'm going to give this stupid film a minus three out of five simply because there's too much CGI and the plot didn't have me pissing myself with fear.  This latter point is really something of a gripe I have with Horror films in general; they make me laugh too much.  Seriously Doctor Who is scarier and that's meant for kids.  Who knows perhaps the only way I'm going to scare myself is by writing something of my own...