Strange Nature

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So many unintentionally humorous moments in this rather earnest nature-revenge flick! The very last scene provides a certain macabre final flourish, and make sure not to miss the additional scene after the credits. So bad it's good! I totally understand why comedian Carlos Alazraqui to do this weirdly comic creature-feature. Take with several large grains of salt and enjoy.

You know I read a lot of mixed reviews about this movie but I really enjoyed this. Perhaps it's not for everyone, but what movie is? For me, this movie is a throwback, to some of the 70's, 80's and 90's horror movies that I grew up watching. Director James Ojala, (The Mad Scientist behind this movie) has created a masterpiece of for the horror genre, filled with good performances, practical effects, blood (lots of blood) and an interesting story line. What happens when you take a little from the movie The Prophecy (not the one with Christopher Walken) and a little from Wrong Turn and then a pinch from Alligator? Strange Nature, that's what! I'll let you guys go and MU-TANT-ON-IT for awhile. Enjoy!

BORRRRRRRING Bad acting, boring as all hell. Waited for some 'Good Parts' but there were none.

Watching the movie I find many things very much over exaggerated. I live less than an hour from the Duluth area and the first obvious exaggeration is that it's not how rural small town living is like. More obvious than that is toward the end with the double headed wolves, Hollywood can get crazy & out of hand with some of this s***. However what I found a stranger was that after viewing the movie I attempted to look up this American Patriot company using several methods. No matter what you type in, no matter what search engine you may use you will only find three things regarding American Patriot company... NO Facebook page, NO website, not much of anything. Kind of strange huh? One of the three things that did come up was EPA aporoval forms for the herbicides, just as it showed in the movie. Which proves that the company American Patriot is in business and a legitimate company. After doing the research I truly believe something is being covered up here. And that it is sick that such a possible legitimate thing is being allowed to be covered up. This should be looked into more and I do appreciate the movies existence.

Kim Sweet (Lisa Sheridan) child pop star who lip-syncs, returns to Minnesota with her son (Jonah Beres) to care for her dad (Bruce Bohne) with liver cancer. Ya, with an outhouse. She is not well loved as she dissed the town in an interview as a teen. While in town, she investigates the mass amount of mutations and has sex with her son's teacher who explains the origin of the issue. The film was inspired by real ecological events. It was weak as a horror story, but the film did have some good characters and I had a LOL during the awkward dinner where the main course was a spam treat. Tiffany Shepis had her name on the credit screen longer than she was in the film. You had to like Larry "skunk slayer" Roger (Justen Overlander). Want to try on a costume? And dad, who was down to earth, "You think I like killing puppies?" Guide: F-word. Brief sex. No nudity.

Bad acting...even worse special effects. Not the worst movie I've seen....

The plot was great up until the end (I'll get to that), the acting was decent, the effects were the right kind of cheesy and gore, the message was extremely important and they gave it to us in a way that kept you interested the entire time. The characters were pretty filled out and the pace was not too fast nor too slow. All in all an excellent movie that mixed entertainment with real world issues wonderfully. The only issue I had was that the plot, while set up great, doesn't really go anywhere. We finally see what the big 'monster,' is and then the rest of the movie following that scene doesn't mention them on the news or anywhere which is interesting as the missing people the monsters took were constantly mentioned before we saw them. Likewise the movie sets up great, 'look at the deformed offspring oh also they kill their mothers in terrible ways,' but then the most closure we get on that is they mention it on the news. And that is about it. No removing people from the area, no keeping new people from entering the area, no mention on if the chemicals or parasites or anything were figured out. Nothing, it builds up a main plotline with a bunch of side paths and leaves all of them hanging. The ending scene as well is a mixed review. It was great shock value when you see her, 'normal,' newborn and a heartwarming moment of big brother meets baby sister with apparently nobody noticing her large birth defect, but that means mommy is gonna die soon just like the others. Since she was there for those wouldn't she be a little worried? Worth the watch but expect to be left with questions and annoyed. Would have been a 10 if it had closed up the plot.

I am a huge fan of practical effects and Jim Ojla is a true artist. The topics in the film are relevant and current. Great work for an independent.

I remember seeing news many years ago about these frog deformities the it all just kind of disappeared. Wild to see a film actually based on this and even has real deformed frogs in the film. Where it goes from there I won't say. Even though this film is kind of a slow burn it is very character based which I appreciate. There's plenty of the good stuff at the end. Excellent performances from the cast and pretty awesome special effects for an indie film. Definitely worth a watch. Nothing else really like this out there.