Synopsis
It is a SF film of Joe DANTE who directed the cynical black comedy Home Coming for Season 1. The original story is a short SF novel written by Alice Bradley SHELDON. Unlike other episodes, the virtue of The Screwfly Solution lies more in the plot than the visual and DANTE who disappointed the fans a bit in Season 1 by focusing too much on his political cause more than delivering the virtue of horror genre leveraged his talent to make an exciting movie. The movie is all about the immense crisis upon human being who dare to judge right and wrong as they please, posing a grave threat to the entire ecosystem of the Earth. In other words, on the assumption that we are the most fatal creatures on the planet, the film describes how such dangerous beings are eliminated. As people witness a meteor falling from the sky, strange incidents happen one by one. An ordinary man is arrested after killing people around upon a self-declared mission from God and 1,100 women are slain by men without any cause. How did the madness of slaughter start and how will it end? First of all, The Screwfly Solution feels more comfortable as it seems to belong more to Twilight Zone which was so popular in the past than to Masters of Horror Series . Notably, the movie has a typical Twilight Zone -style: ending with a far greater and more basic fear rather than visual horror effects. The most attractive part of The Screwfly Solution is how human beings who are no different from vermin are killing themselves to extinction. Men under the influence of bio-terror attack women and drive themselves into an extreme circumstance where they cannot propagate their own species. Such a plot is quite interesting as it describes the same technique of exterminating screwflies that spawn eggs in animal wounds on the excuse that they are bad for human beings. In short, this film is a kind of #999999 comedy that we will pay for the havoc that we wreak on the nature in the same manner we destroy it. There is no mind-boggling visual, but, plausible plot and bold special effects for a cable TV film are certainly appealing. (KIM Jong Chul)