Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Hydra

George Stults, Polly Shannon (2009) A multiheaded serpent chomps on a group of hunters who use humans for sport.

SciFi Original movie from Sunday 2/22. Sadly due to the intricacies of the DVR, I won't be recording any of these Sunday SciFi movies for the next few weeks.

On the plus side, the description used the word "chomp".

The "bad guy" seems to be collecting people who did bad things (e.g., kill people) and are using them for game, for paying customers to hunt. Although it seems that they didn't account for multiheaded serpents and any associated chomping.

So, the hunters have one guy with an M16/M203, one guy with a bolt-action rifle, one guy with some AK thing, and some other guy whose gun I didn't pay attention to. Looks like its another boltie. Nope, its an SKS.

And now one of the prisoners just tripped and fell over in a completely unrealistic and utterly fake fashion. Solely so he could see a severed arm from the people in the teaser who got et earlier.

And M16 seems to have the weakest legs in the history of time. He just got impaled by a very slow moving spike, that didn't look like it had all too much force behind it. And the dude just radioed in saying that he had a wooden spike through his leg. The guy on the boat asked him if he was OK.

And now someone from the teaser just randomly ran by. Serving to lead the hydra to M16. So, one hunter down, and one hunted down. (M16 shot one of the prisoners before getting the hydra sicced on him... Looks like it was the rapist)

And apparently the U.S. Special Forces train people to kill with leaves and acorns. That seems like it'd be a good skill to have.

And the boat captain appears to have a Mossberg M500 in the chrome finish, which is also called "Mariner". I'm slightly amused by this coincidence...

And apparently the Sword of Hercules is vital for killing the hydra. Didn't Hercules use fire to scorch the stumps of the Hydra's heads to ensure they didn't grow back, rather than just having a fancy sword? Because all that was required in this movie was the sword...

I guess that'll teach me for actually knowing my mythology or whatever...

1 comment:

Su said...

Darn your mythological knowledge.