Beneath the ground... is death. During an eco-conference at a restort hotel, environmental activist Father Douglas Middleton (Kevin Sorbo) must stop a black slime that, if you come in contact with it, causes terrifying hallucinations. A Sci-Fi Channel original movie.Yes, a black oozy slime that kills by causing hallucinations. Sounds stupid? Well it is just as stupid as it sounds. The "monster" gets shown to us at the end and it's just a big stupid looking blob thingy. None of the movie makes much sense, the characters behave in the most irrational ways and the ending seems as if it was written by somebody that had stuff to do and scribbled it on a napkin maybe on their way to another appointment. No payoff.
They find a famous rich girl (who is an over-the-top Paris Hilton knockoff) dead in her room at this restort and the over-acting manager doesn't want the press to find out because the hotel will get a bad name, so he tells them to just move the body to the basement and clean up the room. Yeah, no sense in perserving a possible crime scene of a rich socialite, that's not gonna land you in jail. An hour later the hotel employees are going about their regular jobs like it's the Love Boat or something. Stupid, and stuff like this happens the whole movie.
Kevin Sorbo actually does a pretty good job with the material he has to work with, but all the other characters are so shallow and cliched it was just impossible for me to care about them or sympathize with them. Their acting was about high school play level, even taking into consideration the lines they were asked to say.
To top it all off, the special effects were incredibly cheesy.
Even by Sci-Fi Channel standards, this one is bad. Really bad.
2/10
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