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Trollheart · 06-21-2022, 09:16 AM

Title: “Drug Traffic”
Series: Creepshow
Season: 3
Year: 2021
Writer(s): Mattie Do and Christopher Larsen

Storyline: Due to high pharmaceutical prices and the cost of medical insurance, people who need lifesaving medication often have to cross over the border and get it in Canada. A congressman is fighting to change this, and is with a group of people returning from Canada, among them a woman who seems very sick. Border control’s suspicions are far from allayed when the young woman vomits up a bunch of blue and white pills. They are less happy when they discover well over the limit in prescription drugs in the handbag of the woman’s mother, some of which are actually prohibited.

While in the waiting room the young woman goes to bite another woman, but the congressman sees her and intervenes. The young woman runs off. She starts searching for food, and seems to be in a bad way, her stomach rumbling, sweat running down her face. She falls to her knees behind a desk and something happens. There’s a tearing sound. While her mother is being interviewed by the border guard, a kid comes across the woman’s body, minus the head. A moment later the head appears, attached to some sort of alien jellyfish-like appendage, floating in front of him. It attacks.

Shortly after, another man off the bus is attacked, and the thing goes on a feeding frenzy, killing everything in its path. Including my interest in this bloody awful tripe. My god what rubbish. Worst yet, and that includes Tales of fucking Tomorrow and the awful Outer Limits episode. So anyway, the border guard and the congressman are about the only two left alive, other than the mother, and they go after it, get the body, chop it up and that kills the, um, floating head thing.

I’m sorry to say, that’s not the end of it. Dear god why won’t this episode just die? There’s some racist talk goes on between the two men, along the lines of “Fucking immigrants huh?” then the mother decides to top herself, using the shattered window as a guillotine and then the dead head of the daughter takes over her mother’s body and then goes back to the bus and meets the Creepshow host and you know what? I’ve had it with this. Watch it at your peril.

Comments:Cheap horror schlock, with no attempt to justify or explain what was going on. Note: I’ve looked it up and apparently she was a Thai spirit called a krasue, which at least shows some research was made, but the idea that some doctor across the border was able to see this, and said “oh yeah I have pills for that”, the idea it could be controlled by drugs is, frankly, too ludicrous for words. I think the story tried, in its inept, hamfisted and bloodstained way, to get across a message against hatred for immigrants, mixed up with putting differences aside to fight a common enemy, but it got lost in all the blood, gore and stupidity.

Rating: C (how I wish I could give this a C- or even a D, but C will have to do. Lowest of the lowest of the low).

06-21-2022, 09:16 AM	#15 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Title: “Drug Traffic” Series: Creepshow Season: 3 Year: 2021 Writer(s): Mattie Do and Christopher Larsen Storyline: Due to high pharmaceutical prices and the cost of medical insurance, people who need lifesaving medication often have to cross over the border and get it in Canada. A congressman is fighting to change this, and is with a group of people returning from Canada, among them a woman who seems very sick. Border control’s suspicions are far from allayed when the young woman vomits up a bunch of blue and white pills. They are less happy when they discover well over the limit in prescription drugs in the handbag of the woman’s mother, some of which are actually prohibited. While in the waiting room the young woman goes to bite another woman, but the congressman sees her and intervenes. The young woman runs off. She starts searching for food, and seems to be in a bad way, her stomach rumbling, sweat running down her face. She falls to her knees behind a desk and something happens. There’s a tearing sound. While her mother is being interviewed by the border guard, a kid comes across the woman’s body, minus the head. A moment later the head appears, attached to some sort of alien jellyfish-like appendage, floating in front of him. It attacks. Shortly after, another man off the bus is attacked, and the thing goes on a feeding frenzy, killing everything in its path. Including my interest in this bloody awful tripe. My god what rubbish. Worst yet, and that includes Tales of fucking Tomorrow and the awful Outer Limits episode. So anyway, the border guard and the congressman are about the only two left alive, other than the mother, and they go after it, get the body, chop it up and that kills the, um, floating head thing. I’m sorry to say, that’s not the end of it. Dear god why won’t this episode just die? There’s some racist talk goes on between the two men, along the lines of “Fucking immigrants huh?” then the mother decides to top herself, using the shattered window as a guillotine and then the dead head of the daughter takes over her mother’s body and then goes back to the bus and meets the Creepshow host and you know what? I’ve had it with this. Watch it at your peril. Comments:Cheap horror schlock, with no attempt to justify or explain what was going on. Note: I’ve looked it up and apparently she was a Thai spirit called a krasue, which at least shows some research was made, but the idea that some doctor across the border was able to see this, and said “oh yeah I have pills for that”, the idea it could be controlled by drugs is, frankly, too ludicrous for words. I think the story tried, in its inept, hamfisted and bloodstained way, to get across a message against hatred for immigrants, mixed up with putting differences aside to fight a common enemy, but it got lost in all the blood, gore and stupidity. Rating: C (how I wish I could give this a C- or even a D, but C will have to do. Lowest of the lowest of the low). __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018