Mongolian Death Worm (2010)

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A Disappointing Continuation

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Mongolian Death Worm is like a Tremors rip-off of sorts and it had a 3.3/10 rating at the time I wrote this review. Okay, it was a made-for-TV Sy-Fy channel movie with what looked like giant killer sleeping bags devouring an oil refinery (which was obviously a dam if you know what to look for), of course it's a bad movie... but 3.3/10 stars? Is that really fair? I watched this movie expecting it to be terrible, but it wasn't so bad, in fact it was a cheesy, funny horror movie with a story that managed to be engaging enough that I could ignore the various flaws in the film. I love cheesy, bad horror movies (my first was the underrated 1982 Canadian film Deadly Eyes). Maybe I'm giving this movie a much higher rating than it deserves, but I still enjoyed it.Pros:-A story that holds up and manages to be engaging -A cast you can laugh at (the characters were pretty funny, too) -Cool shots of an industrial dam, or the "oil refinery" -Half-decent CGI -Okay soundtrack -No nasty fart jokesCons:-The "death worms" were eating people throughout the movie, but they hardly looked scary or threatening at all, in fact they looked sort of cute... not good for a horror movie. -The do-gooder doctor lady's character got on my nerves -Enviro-propaganda anti-fracking message added in it, which was highly annoying (oil drilling/fracking employs much of my province and other Canadian areas (out west there's a large oil industry and here in the east we've got the potential for hydrofracking) and things like these movies are highly exaggerated, making fracking and drilling look bad -Terrible script lines -Not the best actors/actresses -Not a very creative title -Not a very original movieThe cons outweigh the pros but I've seen worse. I enjoyed Mongolian Death Worm much more than that Hunger Games cr*p that's out everywhere right now and movies are made not always to be good, sometimes just to make people laugh. It's obvious that the production company knew MDW would never get any further than a direct-to-DVD, low-rating release, and I stand by my opinion that it was a fun little movie to pass the time with.

What do I love? I love the title.I love curvy Victoria Pratt in tight tank tops.I love the fact that the Mongolian location isn't even approximately like Mongolia.I love the worms - they are a cut above the usual SyFy monsters, and are not only quite well realised, they are also nicely integrated into the background plates for the most part.That's about it though. The movie owes a big debt to Tremors (and a smaller one to the Alien films in terms of design of the worms), but crucially forgets that Tremors was an entertaining movie, mixing thrills, good dialogue and fun characterisation.

Really bad acting, bad plot and .. too much to critique. My FAVORITE is that in the Gobi desert, we have grass, trees and it a significant resemblance to middle America. Maybe that is why the Mongolians drive GMCs and the police vehicle says "Police".Didn't anybody involved in making this movie give a darn? It appears not.Cheesy movies can be good - Tremors for example, didn't take itself too seriously, but managed to engage us.This one is just bad.

Yes, it was filmed entirely in Texas, (as proudly stated in the credits), even though the film offered a quick panorama of a Mongolian plain at the start of the movie. The lead male star took a night off from his Friday night bowling league to make the movie, yet he is the highlight of this very badly acted mess-terpiece. With a sewage plant as the film's centerpiece, some cardboard shacks for additional props, and very poor CGI effects, the term "low-budget" is something of an understatement. The typical B movie lures, naked girls in the shower, buckets of red paint sloshed about in the death scenes, are all missing from this one. And, as other comments have noted, the supposed native characters look mostly Chinese or Mexican, not Mongolian. The "sheriff" looks like he walked right out of some small Texas town to join the movie. Something was definitely missing from this flick.