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Polymorph [VHS]

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A very different movie from OZONE, in fact if I didn't know otherwise I wouldn't have guessed both films were from the same director. This statement alone says something about Bookwalter's talents. The film has a good premise and once again the effects are top-notch! The characters in POLYMORPH are well defined and fairly well acted. The characters and the conflict between the interns and the drug dealers could have made for a good movie alone and it is for this reason that the alien plot seemed a bit tacked on. It almost seems like POLYMORPH is a movie with a split personality -- a character-driven comedy/drama and a sci-fi special effects movie. The two elements don't always mix but overall POLYMORPH makes for an enjoyable film and a definite development for J.R. Bookwalter.

Exciting action-based sci-fi film that has a meteor crashing on Earth and bringing with it an organism that can emulate its victims. Into the woods comes a group of people who run into a drug runner infected with the organism. What follows is a clever tale of paranoia that has everyone questioning who is still himself.

A snappy science-fiction thriller that represents regional genre filmmaker J.R. Bookwalter's best work to date...one of the best of the new breed of shot-on-video genre movies. [Bookwalter] maximizes his low budget by keeping the locations simple and the cast small, compensating with a fast pace, creative camerawork and some striking low-budget opticals. POLYMORPH puts many higher-budgeted projects to shame for pure entertainment value!