TheExpatriate700 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.

Zombified_660 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.

Claudio Carvalho 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')

yojimbo999 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.