browng-08 wrote:Neoteny wrote:I just finished Days of Darkness and it left a pleasant taste in my mouth. It was your basic space-origin zombie, but with some clever Freudian twists, and a good bit of "ew, that's just nasty" factor. Acting was (relatively) excellent, and the effects weren't too terrible, though all of the creatures reminded me of a mutated nautilus. I give it a good thumb up.
Elaborate!

Ha! Well, I don't want to ruin it for anyone so I'll post a possible spoiler warning here.
**POSSIBLE SPOILERS**
The infective agent attacks the human reproductive tract, using it to birth its own parasitic offspring. The things that come out of the infected, non-zombie humans is actually much more reminiscent of
daphnia than anything else. They consist of a big fleshy mass with crazy tentacles that shoot out of various human orifices. Quite excellent. The whole process apparently entails massively swollen nutsacks (where the neonate aliens grow in males) and the withering away of the penis. The scene that stands out the most to me consists of a zombie chained to a wall in a room with the main character. He notices a strange bulge in the zombie's pants and proceeds to poke at it with a stick until it comes out of the zombie's pantleg. He then wraps it up in a rag and sticks it in his pocket. We don't know what it is yet, but... you know. He then flops the wang out on a table and everyone stands around examining it. It's fucking priceless.