When student animal rights activists break into the university lab, they release rabbits. The virus these rabbits contain produces an army of mutants with superhuman strength and an insatiable bloodlust. As their numbers grow, the chemical company responsible tries to stop the mutants.
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With a title like Orgy of the Blood Parasites you know you aren't going to be reading a tale of quiet, brooding horror. Written under his pen name 'Jack Yeovil', Orgy of the Blood Parasites is author, film critic and journalist Kim Newman just cutting loose.
A mistakenly created virus escapes its lab and starts infecting college students causing random mutations. UCC, the corporation funding the research, calls in its private army to keep a lid on things. Orgy of the Blood Parasites reads like a cross between George Romero's The Crazies and early David Cronenberg 'body horror' movies like Shivers or Rabid. It is filled with scenes of gun-carrying men in white hazard suits clashing with wildly mutated students. The book was obviously written to be read in a couple of sittings. It is short and punchy with no chapter breaks. Instead, every two or three pages it switches between its multiple characters. I wasn't able to devour the book in big chunks and therefore had a little trouble keeping track of who is who. That was me rather than the book though. It was a lot of fun to read. On the one hand, it's Kim Newman having fun with total over-the-top gross out. But it's still Kim Newman, so it is pretty well-written and filled with off-handed references to sometimes obscure pop culture. It is schlock, but its schlock by a man who's made a study of it. Ridiculously entertaining.
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