Redundant and unnecessary.

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Larva is set in the small Missouri town of Host where slimy businessman Fletcher Odermatt (David Selby) runs 'Host Tender Meats' beef company, he supplies the local farmers with free cattle feed & they supply him with cheap cattle he sells at an inflated price. Dr. Eli Rudkus (Vincent Ventresca) is the new vet in town & his first call is to Jabcob Long's (William Forsythe) farm where one cow is dead & another is ill, Eli takes a sample of cow sh*t & back at his lab examines it & discovers an entirely new breed of worm like parasite which gestates in a living host feeding on it's blood before it reaches adulthood & bursts out in search of more blood, all caused by genetically altered cattle feed from Fletcher's company. It's not long before every cow in Host is dead & the huge mutated flying parasitic creatures have turned their attentions to the human population, Eli must find a way to stop the parasites & prevent a worldwide epidemic...This made-for-TV German American co-production also known as MorphMan internationally was directed by Tim Cox & I thought it was a pretty good creature feature considering the crap Nu Image Films usually put out. The somewhat predictable script by Dave Goodin, Kevin Moore, J. Paul V. Robert & T.M. Van Ostrand (did it really take four credited screenwriters to come up with this?) certainly moves along at a nice enough pace, it has enough gory monster mayhem to keep most Sc-Fi channel regulars happy & overall I thought it passed the time harmlessly enough even though it wasn't anything I would describe as spectacular. The character's are alright, the story is OK & like a lot of these types of films it has the moral message about us humans tampering with nature & it turning into some hideous monster that will bite us on the bum. This isn't exactly going to win any awards or anything & is far from a masterpiece but as 90 odd minutes of gory fun I didn't think it was half bad & that's what it boils down to & it's one of the few horror films that I have seen which has the balls to kill off an annoying blonde haired young boy.Director Cox does alright but the film is just too dark & dull, even scenes set during the day or in building which are supposedly well lit there's not much colour or picture information in the frame. The films looks OK, the most stylish moment is near the start as there are close-ups of beef burgers being cooked on a barbecue & then the camera pans up & reveals a cow standing in a field opposite & it lets out a loud moo! It's a scene which just made me smile. There's some OK gore although it never becomes excessive, there are various mutilated cows & dogs, a few stomachs exploding & a fair amount of blood splatter. The CGI special effects on the worm like parasites are good but once they reach adulthood & turn into what can only be described as flying blobs of browny black stuff they aren't so impressive.With a supposed budget of about $1,500,000 this is well made & has decent production values although some of the CGI computer effects look a little poor. The exterior shots were actually filmed in Springfield in Missouri. The acting is alright, Forsythe is slumming it & 80's fashion model Rachel Hunter turns up as the obligatory love interest.Larva is a perfectly decent way to pass the time if your a creature feature fan, it's not the best example of it's type but it's far from the worst either. I thought it was worth a watch if you can find a copy going cheap or watch it on the Sci-Fi channel for free.

This movie was great!! It showed the American spirit for what it actually is. Create a mess, and lie and cover it up with everything that you have. This is the real nitty gritty American persona, especially that of the government and the wealthy in this country! We see it everyday, and people still say "no, they wouldn't do that". But, YES, they would, and they're doing it daily to the average man in the street, us. I especially loved the part when the Mom tries to tell her little boy there are no monsters in the closet, and the parasite is already eating him on his bed, because, in most movies, even horror movies, they never want to kill children, yet, children die everyday, and in horrible ways, example WARS. Governments lie, heads of companies lie. People who make profit from other peoples deaths lie, and lots of times they make you pay for them killing you. This had to do with trying to make beef better, bigger, and therefore more profitable, but instead they got a killer parasite out of it, (hint, mad cow disease? From feeding livestock it's own dead, diseased not excluded), why attack a movie who's whole point is just trying to show the reality of these practices? Boy, do some people miss the point of some movies. Disregard the acting, and listen to what is being said. Of course, nothing is ever done, in real life, against corporations who gouge, and kill it's consumers, so why should an ignorant person who watches a movie that tells him/her they're taking it up the a-- even stop to think about what they're seeing??

The opening, pre-credit scene in this movie features two guys and two girls late at night in a field where they spot a cow. The girls offer to strip naked and do lap dances if the guys tip the cow. So the guys knock the cow over, and to their horror realize that the cow is dead and has some "things" crawling inside it. So off we go, to learn about parasites. We learn that if the parasites are REALLY nasty, they turn into flying, bat-like creatures with the capability of swarming a small Missouri town. We also find out what we already knew: 1) All companies in sci-fi movies are run by morally bankrupt CEOs who don't care about human life; 2) All medical experts who move to a small, rural community in sci-fi movies are mistrusted as quacks by the townsfolk; and 3) all rural townsfolk in sci-fi movies are complete morons. Great fodder for your run-of-the-mill SciFi Original. But the pair of guys and girls disappear, never to be seen again after the opening credits. Where is my lap dance?!?!? Just for that, I'm giving this movie a 3.

From the 70's style score to the tobacco filters to the gore that pushes the envelope on what's allowed on broadcast television, this creature-feature delivers in a way most SciFi channel movies don't even try.The acting is superb, especially the comic interplay between Forsythe and Ventresca. The SFX are superior to anything I've seen on this channel. The smooth, deft pacing creates the kind of tension most directors have either forgotten about or never learned in the first place.The story (Corproate greed destroys yet another small town, go figure) isn't Shakespeare, but is endearing for the simple fact that it never takes itself too seriously. I'd like to see more of this kind of TV movie, especially more from its director - Tim Cox - he's obviously one to watch.