PARASITE
A scientist who despite writing the book on parasites still managed to get infected with one, heads into the hills outside of L.A. In a thermos, he has another parasite. We know it's the post apocalyptic near future because it's mostly deserted and everybody under forty looks like one of the background extras from ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. Not the cool looking guys that were up front but the guys way in the back. More like what a heavy metal rocker from CHIPS would look like if he had to escape from New York during a Ponch dream sequence. Also the bad guy drives a black Lamborghini Countach, which was pretty futuristic in 1982. There's also a couple of ray gun type weapons, and lemons are hard to get. Pure dystopia. The scientist is running from some future villains called The Merchants while trying to find a cure for his infestation. He hides out in a small town but runs into a gang of hoodlums, run by Rickus. They mostly hassle people and come on to sweet girl Patricia, played by Demi Moore. Charles Band does an okay job directing on no budget and what was obviously just meant to be a 3D flick cashing in on the early 80's 3D micro boom. The parasite looks like just about any fish outta the Industrial Canal in Westwego. I caught the flick on Universal HD and I'm gonna assume it was uncut. It has some gore and some tits, in this case Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith's tits. There were a couple of fade out scenes that seemed almost like commercial breaks. It's a pretty quick 85 minutes which is more than enough. I kept thinking that Band should've done a crossover with LASERBLAST, mainly because I love LASERBLAST. Cherrie Currie of the Runaways is in there too as well as some work by Stan Winston.
This is a real early Demi Moore appearance, even before she was on THE MASTER with Vince Van Patten and Lee Van Cleef. Her husband at the time, Freddie Moore, plays one of the gang members. Poor Freddie is considerably less than intimidating. Which brings me to the real reason I wanted to review PARASITE. I wanted to pretend that the review gave some kind of social significance to the nude shots of Demi that we are gonna post with the review. Man oh man does she have an awesome bush. It's fucking glorious. Now that most chicks shave their bush it's really special to see such a beautiful one.
