Based on his book, horror comedy is written by David Koepp and directed by Jonny Campbell, twenty years after feature debut Alien Autopsy.
Georgina Campbell - Naomi Williams
Joe Keery - Travis "Tea Cake" Meacham
Liam Neeson - Major Robert Quinn
Lesley Manville - Lt. Col. Trini Romano
Richard Brake - Jerabek
Gavin Spokes - Griffin
Summary
In 1979, an oxygen tank containing a hostile parasitic fungus from the Skylab space station crashed in Western Australia.
After it was found by a farmer in 2005, he tells microbiologist Dr. Martins (Sosie Bacon) that 'something' has escaped.
Martins arrives on the scene with Major Quinn and Lt. Col. Romano, finding the farmer dead and other bodies burst from the inside.
Don't worry, this is nothing like Alien.
Martins steps on remnant, becomes infected and commits suicide.
The military warm shit up and take sample away.
Kansas, present day.
Tea Cake (sharing name with a famous character from 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching) and Naomi work as security guards at a self storage facility, where the fungus is hidden underground.
They investigate the source of an alarm set off by a sudden rise in temperature, and find an infected rat king outside the vault.
When Quinn is contacted by 'Abigail' from the DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency), all concerned are about to have the longest night of their lives.
The Atchison Incident
Forget The Last of Us, this was more in the vein of The Return of the Living Dead (1985), but never as good.
But 90 minutes never takes itself too seriously, serving an impressive amount of goo and gore.
Once Naomi's ex-boyfriend Mike gets infected, he behaves very much like The Bug assuming the disguise of Edgar in Men in Black (1997).
Climax fell flat, as Quinn gives Tea Cake and Naomi a dirty bomb, causing facility to go bang without incident.
An end boss would've been nice, but nope.
Film ends on a clumsy note, with another unwell stag projectile vomiting.
