Things improve slightly from there, as the monster begins to do his thing surprisingly early.
So that was their boat that blew up? Again, isn’t this the sort of major event they should be showing us in detail? Tom Hanks doesn’t just suddenly find himself in the middle of the ocean in cast away – they show us the goddamn plane crash! It’s like the movie doesn’t want the audience to penetrate its narrative. Then they add to the minor confusion by showing us a quick shot of a boat exploding in the middle of the credits, followed by some bad ADR where they briefly discuss some sort of mishap on their boat. It’d be like Cobra without that awesome grocery store scene – the movie lacks actual introductions for our characters. Not only is this theoretically exciting, but it would also help identify who’s who in the group, how they relate to each other, how they act in dangerous situations – you know, the type of thing you can really sort of depend on for this type of horror/action hybrid.
In the first, a drug deal apparently went south, resulting in one character losing two fingers. Anyway, from there we move on to not one but two bizarrely edited scenes in which characters are reacting to exciting things that we didn’t see. This framing device almost never works in horror films, and here it’s even worse once you get to the end and discover that there’s not even a closing segment to it – we never know who the hero (Craig Fairbrass from Dead Cert, one of the weakest films I saw at Frightfest) was talking to or what became of it. Right off the bat you can tell this one is gonna be trouble, because it begins at the end, with the only survivor telling the story. It’s the least impressive chain of movie ripoffs ever. The exact mechanism by which salicylate exerts its effect is not known, but it appears to be related to osmoregulation.It’s bad enough we have movies like Leviathanand Deepstar Six, which are essentially ripoffs of Alien but just set in the water, but now (well, then) we have Proteus, which is a ripoff of Leviathan and Deepstar Six! Silver lining: it actually gets lower than this, as the recent The Rig seemed to have been influenced by this one. Salicylate decreased the motility of Pseudomonas cepacia but had no effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. may be mediated through a mechanism other than porin production or that the Proteus porin may not be analogous to OmpF in E. This finding suggests that the noted effect of salicylate on Proteus spp.
Salicylate had no apparent effect, however, on expression of a 40-kDa porin protein in P. mirabilis was grown in broth containing 20 mM salicylate. Flagella were markedly reduced as determined by scanning electron microscopy when P. coli derived from motile strains were amotile. Salicylate also blocked the synthesis of flagellin in E. Swarming did not occur at 20 mM sodium salicylate. coli, Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris, Providencia rettgeri, and Providencia stuartii in a reversible, concentration-dependent manner. In the current study, sodium salicylate was found to inhibit the motility of E. Hyperosmotic conditions have been shown to block the synthesis of flagellin and expression of flagella in E. Since these conditions have also been shown to inhibit the expression of P and CFA fimbriae in Escherichia coli, we speculated that they might affect the expression of flagella as well. Osmotic stress, salicylate, and Mar (multiple antibiotic resistance) mutation are known to block the expression of the OmpF porin.