Its Alien crossed with Mad Max, and Demi Moore plays a lemon farmer.
Oh, and Demi Moore makes her feature film debut as Patricia, who grows lemons.
All kinds of gory, economically-budgeted horror antics quickly follow.
Its all done in the best possible taste.
Cronenberg has long argued that, when creatingAlien, writers Dan OBannon and Ronald Shusett were inspired byShivers.
A few dissolves later, and the monster explodes from her head like a gory jack-in-the-box.
Parasites best special effect is arguably Robert Glaudini, who staggers from place to place as Dr. Dean.
Could it be that the Dr. Deans vicious monsters can be killed with a squirt of tart citrus?
Not a bit of it.
Most of the other characters are here to play the incubators for the slug-like monsters.
Today,Parasitemay be best remembered for Demi Moores appearance, but there are other movie connections, too.
Bercovici went on to write and direct horror-comedy oddityGhouliesfor Charles Band, which in turn spawned a whole franchise.
