LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003) User Reviews

Tried hard to like it.

[lastliberal · 5/10 · 15 December 2008]

This isn't Scary Spice's (Melanie Brown) first movie. That would be Spice World, not that I would ever admit seeing that. It is her first movie since then, and she was an interesting character that met an unusual end.

The Brits are famous for horror. Remember Hammer? Now, it seems they are famous for movies about radicals releasing animals. We do that here, but I don't know that we make movies about it. I don't think that many people really care over here, so we leave it to Peta.

The thing is that the group left one of their members behind on a raid and he got three years. He sends them an e-mail about a secret lab that they should check out. That is when the fun begins; as this lab is underground and some really strange stuff is going on there.

Now, I won't spoil it by saying what is going on, except to say that it was an interesting concept. The problem is that I really didn't care about the people in this film, and whether they lived or died. Maybe Katharine Towne (But I'm a Cheerleader), but even that is stretching it.

Don't just scare me, but make me care.

Lethal Dose

[Scarecrow-88 · 3/10 · 13 December 2008]

Animal rights activists who attempt a daring rescue releasing animals from cages in a testing laboratory, leave one of their own, Gary, behind after his foot is caught in a trap. Later on Danny of the group, who has a constant hard-on with filming practically everything with his camera, calls his people together after visiting a supposedly worsening Gary who had agreed to experimental testing for a lighter sentence(..he would not snitch on the group and received three years of prison, opting for whatever experiments could lead to less time behind bars). Danny discovers through a clever code supposedly sent by Gary that he's prisoner inside a factory, a lab rat to unusual experiments which are testing his emotional and physical limits. The group as a collective unit, including two newcomers, goofball Vaughn(Philip Winchester), who seems to be along for the ride not taking things as seriously as his girlfriend, Louise(Melanie Brown), and lunatic "Spook"(Stephen Lord), an ex-military man with a steel plate in his skull and not operating with a full deck, often talking to himself(..why team leader Justin, played by Toby Fisher, would want this loose cannon with them is anyone's guess), will infiltrate the "shadow factory" holding him prisoner in an attempt to rescue him like they did for animals years prior. Matt's lost that real desire for their cause regarding the freeing of animals as a stand for doing what's right, but tags along at the request of his former associates, winding up the heroic savior of the group when bodies start piling up as a supernatural killer stalks them through the means of electrical energy. The experiments on Gary were an attempt to "free the soul" from the body and in doing so he could now move through current striking those he wishes to eliminate. He holds a grudge towards those that left him to the police. So the film, for a very long period of time, shows this group entering the facility, getting trapped by a force controlling the doors, falling prey to the killer who using electrical current to attack them. Helen(Katharine Towne)is a Buddhist whose Yoga practices come in handy towards the end during her confrontation with Gary whose "soul" enters Spook by way of the current.

I agree with others that this film takes from various movies in regards to the characters(..animal rights activists, who seem more interested in the rewards of their actions than saving cats and rabbits)and the electrical current killer(..many should probably see echoes of Jeff Fahey's powerful Lawnmower Man character here). Their situation is similar to a million others. And, for me anyway, this film takes such an alarming amount of time to set up the terror of the characters and their predator, that it grows tiresome because the cast is charmless and colorless. There's some gore. A tooth is pulled, a crushed face due to repeated blows against a steel door, the aftermath of a face burned by a flare, but there's never enough violence or energy to counteract the lack of action(..in plot, especially as characters search, turn on lights and power, pondering where their comrade is being held, finding that this is no ordinary factory)and substance. Everything is familiar, and a feeling of deja vu hangs over the whole movie. Seek fulfillment elsewhere. Technically well made, I guess as far as style, but lacking in story and strong characters. One great sequence shows Gary, suspended by wires which come from his body and open skull showing an exposed brain, displaying the awesome power at his disposal even at his most vulnerable.

Something does not Work Well With This Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 5/10 · 27 August 2004]

A group of animal rights activists' trespasses a lab to release animals, and a bear trap catches Gary (Ross McCall), one of the members. He is arrested but he does not denounce his friends. He goes to jail alone for a three years sentence and the team disassembles. One year later, they reunify and become aware that Gary was a volunteer of an experiment to reduce his period in prison. Later, they received an encoded message from Gary asking for help. The place where he is lodged is an abandoned laboratory and they decide to rescue him. Once in the location, weird events happen with each member of the group. This movie has a good premise, but something does not work well. For example, why the guys decide to smoke grass during their assignment? How and why exist live animals in a desert place? This forgettable film can be recommended for killing time only. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): `A Ameaça' (`The Menace')

Only a little bit lethal...

[moviechic_Carrie · 26 January 2004]

Synopsis : A group of animal rights activists have a rescue mission go wrong and one team member gets trapped at the location. A year later the team receives an encoded message from the friend and they join together to break him out of the facility he is trapped in. To their dismay, they locate an abandoned laboratory that seems to have a mind of its own, and the team starts disappearing one by one.



Plot : The story was a very interesting concept but I feel it lost something in the translation from paper to screen. The film had a decent budget but at times it didn't seem like the budget was used to it's full capacity. Definitely more of a science fiction feeling type of movie but it also had it's horror moments. It can be enjoyed by parties that enjoy either genre.



Cast/Characters : Not a Blockbuster line-up but some familiar faces on the screen with decent acting skills. Some of the scripting though made a few on the screen less talented than what they normally would be. All personality types were covered with the team, almost too formulaic.....nothing tossed in to liven up the story.



F/X : Nothing too cheesy, which is good. Just enough gore to keep ya going and no moments when you are sitting there saying "I see the guy behind the curtain". Of course, there could have been more gore to give it more of a horror feeling but working with what they gave me made it a-okay.



Pace : They spent a little too much time at the beginning of the movie setting up each character and creating a story that really had nothing to do with the result of the film. I feel they should have just skipped to the 2nd act and started the movie there, explained some things better that they skipped and it would have been perfect.



Jekyll's Final Thoughts : It was a good experience to see this film at the Nevermore Film Festival, especially with it being a British made film ; no usual dribble with American casting, etc. If you have the chance to see this movie, try and catch it. I give it a 3 star rating.

Lethally Dull

[ghoulieguru · 2/10 · 2 December 2004]

The premise of this movie is seemingly solid, and it begins like "28 Days Later" Animal Rights Activists break in to a lab and free the cute and fuzzy bunnies. One of them gets captured, and then it turns into some kind of "Altered States" heist movie.

Seems our Activists are now set on freeing their captured comrade from the lab where he has become the focus of a new experiment that is gradually stripping away his humanity in a "Lawnmower Man" kind of way.

Sounds cool, right? That's what I thought. The problem is that once the heist portion of the movie starts, it goes nowhere fast. There's a lot of pointless screaming as members of the crew start turning on each other. It's another entry into the current string of U.K. funded programming that features people turning on each other. For more of the same, watch "The Bunker". The Bad Guy doesn't make an appearance until the last ten minutes of the movie, and it's a pretty dull ride up to that point.

HILARIOUS!!! its about this dude, and he couldn't find his car.

[aimless-46 · 2/10 · 19 November 2005]

Dude this movie was HILARIOUS!!! its about this dude, and he couldn't find his car.

Sorry wrong movie but same intellectual level. Like the teen comedy "Dude, Where's My Car", "LD 50 Lethal Dose" bravely seeks the lowest rung of its genre's (in this case sci-fi, sort of) intelligence ladder. The only positive outcome is the possibility that first-time writer Matthew McGuchan is now ashamed enough about his sad screenplay to seek a permanent career in the food service industry.

Basically "LD 50 Lethal Dose" is what you would have if someone tried to remake 1970's "The Andromeda Strain" under a lot of budget constraints. Speaking of budgets, can anyone find the $8 Million allocated to this movie? Very little of even that modest amount makes it to the screen. And speaking of mysteries, how did they manage to find that kind of financing for this turkey?

"LD 50 Lethal Dose" has the same production design concept as the two "Saw" movies and "The Hole"; find an abandoned industrial building, go inside, and roll camera. But even though this particular claustrophobic set has more potential than the others, the finished product is not even remotely in their league. A few artsy interior shots can't salvage a premise this lame or a script this staggeringly bad.

If you enjoy life on the bottom rung of the sci-fi ladder you would be better served by something that at least has some innate charm (insert "Godzilla" here). "LD 50 Lethal Dose" might have eventual parody potential but I am not masochistic enough to watch it again for confirmation.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

Refuse the dose.

[celr · 2/10 · 16 January 2011]

This thriller is far from thrilling. The movie opens with animal rights types going on a sort of commando raid to free a bunch of bunnies and kitties from an animal research facility. One of them is caught by the cops and he winds up in some sort of facility for mind experiments. Apparently he volunteered. His friends decide to raid the facility, this time to free their friend because they feel guilty for leaving him in the first raid.

This ad hoc team is made up of mostly morons and hotheads who exhibit absolutely no ability to cope with the situation when they find themselves trapped in the basement of the facility. One minute they're lighting up a doobie and dreaming happily amid clouds of smoke, and the next they're shouting hysterically and at each others throats. They can't reason, they can't plan; all they do is make sarcastic remarks and start fistfights with each other, and worse. The setting is minimal-- an industrial basement with a lot of colored electric cables strung around. There seems to be a supernatural force stalking them, but its nature is not explained. Mostly the movie drags as they wander stupidly through the spooky corridors muttering nonsense. The only positive thing I could find in this movie was the fact that they did not use bundles of cheap plastic tubing from the hardware store to decorate the set.

One of the major problems with this is that there is no explanation given as to what's going on: we don't know what kind of experiments are being conducted, who's behind them, what were their purpose. The operators of the facility are all gone, perhaps killed or just fled. We never find out. One character, who seems to know a bit more than the rest, explains they they were creating "biometric emanations" or some such nonsense. In the end we find out who's behind some of the strange poltergeist events we've been seeing, but we are still in the dark about how the whole thing works. Very little is explained. One of the characters gets bitten by a rat and after that goes off his nut, but we don't know if it's some infection the rat gave him or if he's picking up some supernatural radio signals on the steel plate in his skull, or if he was just crazy from the beginning.

Science fiction as well as tales of the supernatural have to have some basic ground rules about how the fictional or fantastic world is supposed to work. In this kind of plot we expect the big design to be revealed, maybe little by little, so that in the end everything is clear. But that's the problem--we never know. It looks like they made up the plot as they were filming. There should be some snappy dialogue and coherent action for a low budget movie like this, but the plot drags horribly, interrupted by scenes of senseless violence. Miss it.

Just barely a 4

[ralf_nader · 4/10 · 4 December 2007]

This movie wasn't horrible, but it was not very good either. I got about what I expected when I rented it... a low budget sci-fi/horror movie that was at least somewhat entertaining.

Plot: C+, It starts out with a pretty generic, boring plot, but it grows into something more intriguing. I think the way they suddenly just dump the concept on you detracts from its greatness though.

Acting: C-, Acting was sufficient, but not great. They are about par with what you'd expect in a mediocre horror film. No one of the actors really stood out amongst the others as being exceptionally good, but one or two stood out as being exceptionally crappy.

Special Effects: C, Not that great, but again, it was sufficient.

Character development: D+, you don't really get attached to these characters. Part of it may have been the mediocre acting. The characters that stand out the most are the ones that follow the usual cliché character types. You have the tough guy, the smart computer nerd, the annoying goof-off joker, and more. The characters that didn't follow one of these cliché types really just blend into the background.

Best aspect of the movie: The actual concept they present to you later in the movie (I won't reveal) is interesting.

Worst aspect of the movie: Lack of character attachment. It's no secret people die in this movie, and when they do you'll find yourself not caring that much in most cases.

The Experiment's a Failure

[TheExpatriate700 · 3/10 · 22 September 2012]

Lethal Dose is a tedious excuse for a horror film, with characters you won't care about and a script that will put you to sleep. It revolves around an animal rights group that tries to rescue one of their own a year after they abandoned him during a raid. What they find is a mix of bad dialogue and pseudoscience.

The film is nowhere near as gruesome as its subject matter would suggest. The opening credits show photos of animals being experimented on, leading one to expect a violent piece of gorn. Instead, we get a bunch of poorly thought out science fiction mumbo-jumbo as our protagonists confront the results of an experiment gone wrong.

This might have been a decent film anyway if we had had some characters we could care about, but these people are stupid even by horror movie standards. It's hard to see how these activists avoided getting caught on their first raid, as they wore only some camouflage make up on their faces even though they knew they were on camera. Furthermore, they decide it is a great idea to smoke pot when they are in the middle of a mission in a government installation. At least slasher movie victims have the excuse of only being at a summer camp when they act like idiots.

A paradox of who's becoming a lab-rat!

[Dario_the_2nd · 7/10 · 23 January 2005]

"Lethal Dose 50" is a stylish British production that deserves a view. It's a for sure a great and pleasure full time killer. The cast isn't that well known, although maybe the spice girl " Melania Brown" could be a recognizable face. The director of this horror SF flick, "Simon De Selva" sets a pretty impressive movie onto your screen as first time director! The tension is superb and of a perfect level. The director knew how to put in the suspense moments at just the right and perfect time. Acting is of a decent quality though can't be called amazing but actually I think that was for sure not needed into this flick. Everyone played their part to best of their ability and in which they succeeded for sure. Sometimes I did spot some "28 Days Later" links into the film but it never annoyed me in anyway. It didn't interfere into this flick in a negative way. The music is good and adds by times that certain needed drive to get some scenes, even the whole movie into a certain gear so it starts rolling onto your screen and creates that great feeling of being locked onto your screen. Which also gives that extra power onto these "jump chair" scenes. Where into this movie one is to be found for sure!

Not as great as "28 Days Later" but for sure much better as "Dogsoldiers"! A' kinda must see if you're in for a foreign filled film evening.

Dario/ 7.5 outa 10.

help me! Im a plot less movie :S

[shazrahman · 1/10 · 16 November 2008]

Where to begin with this debacle? The cast were poor, not a single mediocre performance if you combined all their talents.

Melanie Brown (of former spice girls fame) does her best to be annoying northerner. Her thick gormless accent ripping through any notion of script or character. Why couldn't someone have paid her to sing her lines? Trust me it would have been better than listening to her speak.

The main plot is strictly B movie fare, and there is no real idea of what this movie is. Is it a horror? (if so shouldn't it be scary?) is it a thriller? (then shouldn't it be exciting or have some surprise?) Is it sci-fi? (then shouldn't there be more mention of this concept - instead of slapping it on at the end) The writer Mr De Selva should be ashamed of profiting from such a bland, pointless story. But alas there is no more shame in collecting a paycheck for which one does not deserve.

Not your usual horror movie

[aliuk · 8/10 · 2 March 2005]

I found this a really interesting and challenging film, not like your usual run-of-the-mill horror movie. I'm not going to give anything away because I think it is worth seeing, but there were some very clever plot twists that took me completely by surprise! The acting was good, I thought that all the actors really pulled together as a team and that really shows (also the mark of a good director!). I also think the direction itself was really tight and perfect for the creepy, slightly claustrophobic nature of the scenes underground. The supernatural elements were fascinating as well, a very modern take on a popular genre. All in all a really good evening's viewing, and well worth seeing! I would say don't miss it!

Lethal Ending

[yojimbo999 · 6/10 · 31 May 2004]

In short: lame first 30 minutes, super duper middle 30 minutes, super duper lame final 30 minutes. That's it, in a nutshell.

Mel b can't act, and so can't the female lead. The male lead was Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis, incidentally. He looks weird here, probably because the film had zero character development. And the girl using yoga to beat the bad guy at the end was funny. Funny in a "ha ha, that blows" sort of way, mind you.

The film currently has a 7-something rating. This is due to a low voting count. When more people see the flick, I suspect the rating will go down. Around 5-point would be my guess. Myself, I am giving it 6/10, just for the spooky middle. The rest isn't worth spit.

My grade 6/10, just cause I dig horror flicks, even if they're mostly lame.

Not too bad horror film

[slayrrr666 · 7/10 · 10 October 2005]

"LD 50: Lethal Dose" isn't that bad of an animal rights horror film.

**SPOILERS**

Several members of an animal rights activist group, Gary, (Ross McCall) Danny, (Leo Bill) Matt, (Tom Hardy) Helen, (Katherine Towne) and Justin (Toby Fischer) raid a chemical lab where animals are being held and release the animals, but when Gary is captured by their security system, the others scatter. One year later, Gary is in prison and the rest of the gang is getting worried that the new experiment Gary signed up for is bad news. When they bring their friends Louise (Melanie Brown) and Vaughn (Philip Winchester) in to help out, Helen joins in only to help get rid of the nightmares she's having about Gary. Last minute addition Spook (Stephan Lord) also arrives, and he, Vaughn, Louise, Helen, Danny, Matt and Justin head over to the lab where they believe Gary was taken for the experiments. Exploring the huge complex, they can tell that something isn't right in the facility, and it starts to freak them out. After some exploring, things really start to get freaky, and now the slowly dwindling group has to get out of the research facility alive.

The Good News: Perhaps the best part of the film is the design of the facility the characters become trapped in. It's large in design, but the cramped rooms and long, barren hallways set up the mood perfectly. This film has tons of atmosphere, with the drab, gray walls and miles of cables running alone that really help out as well. Combine this with some choice lighting and you get a movie loaded with suspense and tons of interesting set pieces. It was also nice to see so much bloodletting in this film, as well. We get lots of the red stuff, in the form of chopped off arms, a very bloody knife stabbing, a couple of nosebleeds, and some head melts onto cement and then peeled away with skin spreading back too. There's more gore in the film, pleasing any real gore fan. Don't be too surprised at the mention of the nosebleeds in the earlier part of the film, they are far bloodier than you can think. One last thing about the gore: don't expect Fulci/Romero style gore in here. Think instead of supernatural artery blood flow. Nothing just trickles out, this stuff gushes out in spades. The special effects in the film are also first rate. To see people being hurled into walls propelled by flashing electrical bolts, or the fate of the whole crew at the end, this is full of great special effects. Even better still, the film sets up the last half of it as a series of chilling set-pieces and non-stop shocks, all because the middle half is so brilliantly put together. The suspense is incredibly unnerving, and following the group as they explore the facility, unsure of what they're going to find. This is a great attribute for a film.

The Bad News: Those going in expecting a killer creature film, like I did, will be disappointed by what I have to say next, so if you are planning on watching the film, don't read the next few sentences. There is absolutely no killer animals in the film. The only damage an animal does in the film is a small scratch that hardly anyone would feel if it happened to them. This is far more supernatural flick than anything, so it can be a little bit of a downer when it sets up attacks that don't come. The film also has the most annoying characters of recent times. The animals rights thing I'm okay with, but that really doesn't excuse the kinds of characters in this film. They are so retarded that I finally decided to make a comment on it. Being a person who's very tolerant of bad acting, this is bordering on the ridiculous. It's more of how stupid they react in their situation than anything. You have to see it to believe it.

The Final Verdict: Bad acting and a real shocker of a plot line may be offset by some great suspense scenes and tons of gore. It may be equaled out, but that is all in the eye of the beholder. Give it a shot if you like this kind of film, you may be surprised. Just be careful that it's very hit or miss.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, animals in danger, and scenes of drug use

Awkward title, fun movie.

[Zombified_660 · 8/10 · 24 August 2005]

Maybe it's the non-stop landslide of American horror-by-numbers and slick Hollywood remakes making me feel a little ill, but LD50's slick Brit-horror action struck a real chord with me. The movie is low-budget, but great care and attention has been taken to make sure every part of the movie is as good as it can be. The movie instantly impresses, with properly lit night photography, beautiful lighting and a well thought out script full of believable characters.

In terms of plot, LD50 is a halfway house between I Know What You Did Last Summer and 28 Days Later. A group of animal-rights activists is called to an abandoned military base by an ex-member of their team who went missing after capture. Upon arrival, they realise that something is amiss, and before long strange events occur, putting them in grave danger. It's an interesting plot, and while far from totally original, it was refreshing to see a movie that isn't a slasher or a ghost movie for once.

As with any straight-to-video film, I have a few misgivings. While ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown is actually very convincing in the movie, a few of the other actors aren't, namely the token Americans in the film, who kind of jar with the otherwise all Brit cast. Katharine Towne eventually won me over but was quite annoying and asinine in the first half of the movie, and the less said about Mel B's boyfriend the better. Despite this, I've gotta give Peter Lord his props for the unnerving Spook. Loved that dude.

Basically, LD50's a solid, fun and fresh-feeling horror. It really ought to have been released properly, as it can certainly punch it's weight with a lot of the horror 'in-crowd'. Well worth watching.

Mean spirited contemporary UK horror effort

[Vomitron_G · 7/10 · 27 May 2011]

"LD 50 Lethal Dose" was a nice surprise, and actually a lot better than the trailer suggests (which, thankfully, I saw after the movie, on the "special features" menu). Scary Spice was actually pretty unrecognisable in the movie. At least, to me she was. Never really kept track of the Spice Girls, anyway. All the acting was pretty okay, even. All I can say is, if you like recent British horror, like "Dog Soldiers" (2002), "The Descent" (2005), "The Hole" (2001) and "Long Time Dead" (2002), then you'll most likely enjoy "LD 50 Lethal Dose" also. Its not on par with the first two I mentioned, but it can compete with the last two. It did take me a bit to get into it. It knows a very standard set-up (first half hour), but in the end the movie is saved by a pretty original concept (even though "LD 50" deceivingly starts as one of those 'a group of people on an isolated location are about to be killed of by some killer-something' type of movie), good cinematography (look & feel) and set design, very decent special effects and blood & gore make-up effects (well-timed, rather than a non-stop display), okay over-all acting, and a satisfying finale/conclusion. Just keep one eye closed for some implausibilities in the script and don't try to think too much during the movie, and you'll be okay. First time director Simon De Selva left a good impression on me with "LD 50".

LD 50 ably provides a number of grisly set-pieces and a rewardingly WTF climax!

[Weirdling_Wolf · 7/10 · 5 July 2023]

Simon De Selva's amusingly bizarre Sci-horror misfire finds a fractious group of animal rights activists trapped deep within a labyrinthine underground facility, their fates mirroring the poor creatures they are so desperate to free! Ruthlessly tormented by a demented pseudo scientist, their malign unseen oppressor unleashing a disorienting salvo of otherworldly phenomena! While the cast's performances vary in enjoyability, Scary Spice, Katherine Towne, and a distractingly pretty, Tom Hardy are engaging protagonists in this neglected, splendidly kooky subterranean psychodrama. Like the thinly etched characters misguided altruistic odyssey, screenwriter, Matthew McGuchan's wobbly text is not without one or two missteps. To be fair, after a somewhat inauspicious start LD 50 ably provides a number of grisly set-pieces and a rewardingly WTF climax. Not quite a cult movie, playing out like a bloodier, feature length episode of The X-Files, LD 50's innate eccentricity ultimately won me over. I'm fairly certain, De Selva's high voltage shocker may find greater favour amongst, Tom Hardy fans, and B-Freaks with a depthless tolerance for schlock-mongous Sci-Die shenanigans!

See it!

[steven_elder-1 · 8/10 · 2 March 2005]

Some raw powerful performances, and truly chilling moments in this haunting Simon De Selva movie. The story takes that classic horror/science fiction set-up - a disparate and desperate bunch of characters entering some hostile environment and being menaced by a mysterious predator (From "Alien" to "Scooby Do"!) - and gives it a smartly original slant (the energy of the human soul being channelled into some new form of WMD). De Selva's direction is slick, atmospheric; and brings us some great set-piece moments, and nightmarish images. Tom Hardy (as Matt) brilliantly charts his character's journey from zero to hero, and Leo Bill plays the self-serving Danny with great intensity and truth. Most of the movie is set in a perfectly designed, creepily claustrophobic tunnel system where experiments are conducted on human "lab rats". And it's all carried along by a heart-thumping soundtrack.

Really odd sci-fi/horror mix is at least entertaining

[robertemerald · 6/10 · 20 February 2020]

Everything about Lethal Dose seems hurried, and unfinished. The premise and story is good, and pleasingly out there wacko, but the overall vision is lost in too hurried a production. First of all the characters are for the most part unlikeable, with at least three being later revealed as psychopaths, and what's worse they all barely seem to like each other, in fact, almost all early conversations drip with various resentments, sarcasms and distrusts. This is a problem as their ultimate quest is to save a mate. It's not a huge problem, but it seems out of character as they are essentially a loveless group. The script is mundane and full of common sayings, made cringe-worthy from time to time when this is attempted as humour. The sets for the main part of the action are a hotchpotch of science and cables, with no modern style at all. 2003 had iMacs, but this is all very early PC. I guess I'm asking a lot, but I couldn't help thinking that if the sets had been more cavernous with longer and spookier tunnels, well, this might just have been a classic sci-fi horror. Certainly the story had the making of a classic, and it was original, and toward the end there are at least a couple of very classy horror images. I have to concede that Lethal Dose's originality is brave. I googled the basic premise, and there are movies that use some aspects of the goings on here, but none really come close to this overarching storyline. So if you are a sci-fi fan you might want to take a look at this for that aspect. Lethal Dose is never boring, and the early photography is sometimes very good, and here and there there are some decent effects. It's just that it was hard to like characters that don't even like each other. I'd love to see a remake of this with more money for effects and sets, and a Director with a greater sense of horror atmosphere.

I actually liked this movie a lot

[LycheeSmile · 8/10 · 10 February 2006]

I actually liked this movie a lot, sure.. there are some things that don't add up as to why something is the way it is in the movie, but all around, as seen from a B movie perspective, its awesome. The acting was good, and the script was complex, which those two factors alone were a nice refresher. All around I give this movie an 8, I would rate it higher.. but as an animal rights person myself, I found not everything added up quite right to all of it (would wear masks, gloves, bundle the hair, etc during raids) little touches like that would have made it a bit more believable.. along with turning off the flashlights.... but honestly, I loved the movie, and whenever I see it at the store, I'll pick it up and add it to my collection.