sddavis63 I watched this movie a while back and when it came to an end I was puzzled. Usually, I have a pretty strong reaction to a movie: I know if I've liked it or not, or if I've been bored with it, or if I've been bothered by it. I know something about my reaction to it. When I watched this a while back, I had - honestly - no reaction. I didn't know if I had liked it or not. So it faded into the distant past and I moved on, until the opportunity came up to watch it again. I decided to watch it again. Sometimes a movie that doesn't really strike a chord with you will do so on a second viewing. So I watched it again. And I have exactly the same reaction - I'm not really sure if I liked it or not.It's a schlocky monster story, where a scientist invents some sort of cure for a disease that a multi-millionaire wants, but he forces the scientist to try it out first - with really bad results. The mutated scientist then encounters a maintenance crew in underground tunnels where he was forced to try the cure, there's a lot of blood and gore and death. What else is there? Really - not much.It wasn't horrible. I'll say that. It's a basic, run of the mill monster story - and those can be OK as time wasters. Aside from Tom Sizemore, who played the head of the maintenance crew, the cast was pretty anonymous. And, as far as Vince (played by Sizemore) was concerned - how in the world could he have been a POW in Vietnam? Sizemore is nowhere near old enough to play a guy who would have been a POW in Vietnam. That grated on me a bit, even though it's a throwaway part of the story.I guess I'll give it a 5. Right in the middle. Because I honestly don't know if I liked it or not.

slayrrr666 "Bottom Feeder" is a decent if not entirely spectacular killer rodent film.**SPOILERS**Working on a clean-up crew, Vince Stoker, (Tom Sizemore) and his crew Otis, (Martin Roach) and Callum, (Joe Dinicol) welcome his niece Sam, (Amber Cull) when they are assigned to a new job. Arriving at the facility, an abandoned medical testing lab, they go through the facility going down into the tunnel system below. While searching through the facility, the group is soon ambushed by a large creature living in the tunnels. They soon find the source of the giant rats as being the cause of a chemical drug used by the ailing Charles Deaver, (Richard Fitzpatrick) who had requested the drug to help him but a side-effect of them caused a mutation that turned them feral and huge, and are the cause of their slowly-disappearing numbers. Finally finding a way to stop the creatures, they set out to get away from the sewers with the creature crawling around killing everyone it can.The Good News: There was some good stuff to this one when it got around to it. One of the better aspects is the film's incredibly creepy location, which is quite a big plus. The fact that they're in a sewer, which is already creepy, but it looks really great here due to the fact that this one is well-handled, effectively looking like an abandoned building should've been, with the appropriate amount of decay present with the other little things, such as what would be found in a sewer to begin with but simply rotted away due to time, is a very nice touch. That it's also dark most of the time seems to work well for this one, meaning that it's just an incredibly suspenseful location, and mixed together with the corridor of tunnels down there and the overall look to it, this one comes out rather nicely. There's also a nice bonus here in that, although it deals with a giant rat, it's not in the traditional sense of how it came about and instead is brought about through the chemical affected another party than what would be the norm, and it is much better than having a gigantic swarm of rats doing the killing. The confrontations with it are even better, as the encounters down in the creepy sewers provide a lot of fun times and generally seem highly enjoyable. The car-park one is one of the best ones, and the shootouts in the corridors work amazingly well at getting a lot of good action into this one. Even the surprise jumps from the creature attacking generate some fun, and the conclusion scores rather nicely before veering off. The last plus here is the film's incredibly high gore content, which is much higher than normal. There's an arm sawed through with a drill, a messy decapitation, several limb amputations, a saw through the chest, scratches across the face and chest with deep gouges through them and a lower jaw completely ripped out at the seems, among others in here so this one gets really bloody when it wants to. These here the film's good points.The Bad News: There was a couple problems for this one. One of the biggest ones is that the film really doesn't have a whole lot going for it when it comes to the beginning part of this. It's just far too long and not all that entirely interesting when it presents it's opening. Here, going from the run-down with the chemical to the meeting between the two parties and the aftermath of that to getting into talking about the mission from the crew, it takes about thirty minutes before even going down into the sewers, and the rat isn't the first thing done down there either. There's not a whole lot of interesting things going on through these parts of the film, and it just makes these parts of the film drag on and on for some time before it gets really good. Another problem is that there's not a whole lot of clarity when it comes to dealing with the creature's attacks. Most of them are either over so quick it's hard to tell what happened until the aftermath, too dark to render anything visible, edited so haphazardly it's impossible to see anything, or a combination of them, and a few suffer from all those factors which is really unfortunate as they were set-up to be among the better scenes until the flaws kicked in. The last flaw here is the film's incredibly stupid ending, which has almost nothing right going for it and is just all-around bad, no matter how it's looked at. These here are the film's bad points.The Final Verdict: While it's not entirely bad, there's not nearly enough good points to raise this one into the upper echelons of the genre. Worthwhile look for those that are interested or find these kinds of films enjoyable, but definitely heed caution if you're not one of those who likes these films.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language

Paul Andrews Bottom Feeder starts as scientist Dr. Nathaniel Leech (James Binkley) meets up with his rich billionaire benefactor Charles Deaver (Richard Fitzpatrick) who has been funding his experiments into a serum called A12 which is supposed to regenerate dead cells. Deaver is desperate for the miracle serum since he was badly burnt in a car accident & is dying, Leech wants the serum to work because his wife Miranda is dying of leukaemia. Leech says he has perfected it but Deaver wants proof & gets his people to beat him badly while his ruthless female associate (Wendy Anderson) breaks his hand under her foot & shoots him in the legs. She then locks Leech in some underground tunnels after injecting him with the A12 serum to see whether it works & his body regenerates. Unfortunately Leech mutates into a mutant deformed half man half rat creature that has an appetite for human flesh...This Canadian production was written & directed by Randy Daudlin & one has to say I rather enjoyed Bottom Feeder in a simple run of the mill Creature Feature sort of way. I mean it's not original in any way, anyone who is familiar with the Creature Feature sub genre will be able to predict what happens fairly easily, it's clichéd & generally speaking it feels rather unadventurous but for what it is & what it tries to be it's an entertaining example of a Creature Feature. The basic storyline is the usual 21st Century genetic & scientific experiments gone wrong & some sort of monster is created which then decides to kill & eat every human being it comes across, there's the dark isolated location where a group of people are trapped & stalked by the monster, the whole thing about the US military wanting it as some sort of ultimate soldier/weapon is here & there's even the obligatory twist ending which leaves things wide open for a sequel. Once Bottom Feeder gets going it's an enjoyable Creature Feature, the character's are better than usual with some decent dialogue & I especially liked the way that no-one split up & their main priority was to stick together until they escape to safety although the self sacrificing villain at the end who decides to give up their life to rectify a wrong is the only time I felt the character's went into groan inducing cliché. It takes a while to get started but once it does it's a good solid horror flick that I enjoyed much, much more than I had expected.Director Daudlin does alright, he keeps things moving along & it actually looks like a proper film rather. A lot of low budget horror films look like they were shot on camcorders with shaky hand held cinematography but Bottom Feeder is really well shot where you can see whats going on & whats happening at all times. It's also edited properly as well with no 'blink & you'll miss it' quick fire cuts. A lot of low budget horror films these days use horrible CGI computer effects which look awful but Bottom Feeder uses good old fashioned on set special effects, fake blood, prosthetics & an impressive rubber monster suit. The creature looks good but it's long sticking out ears do look a little silly & to my eyes with it's humanoid shape, pointed ears & snout it looked more like a Werewolf than a rat but that doesn't really matter. There's some decent gore, heads are pulled off, jaws ripped off, ripped apart bodies are seen & there's a pleasing amount of blood splatter.Technically the film is very good & seems to have had high production values. Shot in Hamilton in Ontario in Canada. According to the 'Trivia' section on the IMDb for Bottom Feeder star Tom Sizemore quit the film after two days but eventually returned & finished it with the entire situation covered in Sizemore's reality show Shooting Sizemore (2007) which I would actually be interested in seeing but have no means to do so. It's very surprising that a quality well known actor like Sizemore would appear in such a film as Bottom Feeder but he could have picked worse films to be in that's for sure. The acting is fine with decent performances from all involved.Bottom Feeder is maybe the best Creature Feature I have seen in a while, it's not Shakespeare or Oscar worthy but for most horror fans it'll pass 90 odd minutes. Not to be confused with another film called Bottom Feeder (2006) which is a comedy made the same year, it's just typical isn't it? You wait a lifetime for a film called Bottom Feeder to be made & then two come along at once!

gavin6942 A maintenance crew headed by Tom Sizemore goes into an abandoned hospital to look for old equipment to sell to collectors. But a multi-millionaire has a scientist in the catacombs under the hospital, who has developed a serum to cause rapid regeneration and cellular growth. The scientist, who has taken the serum, is finding the results to be a bit more extreme than expected.For my beef with 235 films (who produced this), see my review for "The Mad". This film's selling point was easy to identify as soon as I picked it up: it has Tom Sizemore in it. And, hey, I like Tom Sizemore (rent "Lock Up" with Sylvester Stallone) so this seems like something worth checking out.That selling point is about as far as you can get with this one. You have a very one-dimensional millionaire who survives a fire. A creature in a tunnel who becomes part rat and part dog. A bum who is apparently a Rastafarian. These things mix well, surprisingly, but only in the most absurd sense of the word "well". It's just a lot of strange things going on.The crew's background is in makeup, and it shows. There is a scene where they chop off a guy's fingers that was alright, and the creature is especially slimy. But the creature is just poorly conceived: in horror, there needs to be a balance of how much you do and do not show a monster. Here, they couldn't decide to show him too little (much of the film is almost pitch black) or too much (making him seem somewhat dumb).I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy this film. I did. But the actors were nothing special, I didn't care about the characters, and Sizemore is either doped up or washed up in this film. Maybe he's not doped up. But whatever the case, he just looked old and tired. I can't have my hero looking like he wants to drink a six-pack of Coors Original (the Banquet Beer), smear Dorito orangeness on his chest and pass out watching NASCAR. This Sizemore didn't even have enough energy in him to pass gas.I guess this isn't really telling you what you need to know, but there's really nothing to know: bad hero, weak monster, fake secondary characters. Unless your goal is to just get drunk or high and need something on the screen to move every so often, this isn't going to thrill you. If you want a good underground monster, rent "Tremors" or "CHUD".