Okay, once again a big budget saves a horror movie from the john, and manages to firmly place it in MEDIOCRE status. Yes, you read correctly. I usually don't praise special FX being a movie's savior, but these were BEAUTIFUL special FX! I nearly shit myself when Kothoga ripped the guy's head off! Who's Kothoga!? What, didn't you see the... oh yeah, I didn't tell the story yet! Stop bitching and read on! Some superstition scientist finds some weird South American plants with hormone fungus growing on them. After some voodoo ceremony, Dr. Whitney eats the shit and goes crazy. Problem? By the time he makes it back to the states, he's some big mutation and he's hiding in a museum! He manages to keep a low profile while eating a pot smokin' Rent-a-cop's brain, and then the Chicago porkers get involved. They think some homeless nutcase with an ax killed the security guard, so they find him and turn him into Swiss bum cheese. Sure enough, when the museum's opened back up for a fancy exhibit, all hell breaks loose! A riot ensues and the whole scene looks like people running from a Cheap Trick concert (but, these people are better dressed). The no-so-godly Kothoga (who I like to call "Kathy") comes out of hiding and eats some trapped museum go-ers. Here is the aforementioned head pull scene! Well, some evolutionary scientist and a superstitious cop blow Kathy to bits. End of story. It made a good movie, but only a MEDIOCRE horror movie. Well, I'm being assaulted by a rabid toilet platypus, so I'll be leaving you now!

Sequels: Nope

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