12/7/2022 0 Comments Proteus 1995![]() "Shelley" doesn't strike me as a Russian surname. ![]() They also for some reason insisted on giving Dr. Alex's douchebag qualities are divided between Mark and Paul, the latter of whom, in the farthest fall from main character status I can think of, is actually Charlie's very first victim. I'm unsure why Brosnan switched them around. For instance, in the book, Paul was the hero and Alex was a thoroughly unpleasant jerk and rapist. There's some swapping around of the characters' roles from the novel. Most likely because John Brosnan himself wrote the script. A much better effort than Roger Corman's horrible Carnosaur. This is a fairly decent adaptation of the novel Slimer by Harry Adam Knight (a pseudonym of John Brosnan). Trapped aboard the rig with a mutant killer, can Alex and the others survive? Well, obviously Alex will, since he's telling this story as a flashback, but what of the others, particularly his girlfriend and fellow DEA agent Rachel.? Shelley) can exert themselves as the dominant personality long enough to use Charlie's shapeshifting abilities to turn its body into theirs, so they can try and warn the others. ![]() The consumed people are still conscious inside of Charlie's brain, but mostly entirely helpless only the most strong willed (such as Dr. The experiment turned an ordinary great white shark (the original inhabitant of that big aquarium), nicknamed Charlie by the scientists into a genetic freak which can shapeshift, turning itself into slime and absorbing the minds and bodies of its victims and also occasionally taking their form to trick more victims. Proteus was intended to create the ultimate organism which can survive anything, and adapt to any environment. Shelley can't answer where Paul has got to, but does reveal that what attacked him is something named "Charlie." He assures them Charlie is "under control now," and then wanders off and disappears.ĭeciding to investigate more for himself, Alex finds a room with video equipment containing tapes about something Brinkstone was working on called the Proteus Experiment. Whilst pursuing whatever it is that got Paul, they encounter an apparent survivor, a scientist named Dr. Alex and the others come running, but find only Paul's dropped stash of heroin. On his way back to Linda however, something attacks him and drags him away. Paul, it turns out, still has some heroin hidden on himself, and he rations some out to junkie Mark. The group beds down for the night, taking the missing scientists' rooms for themselves, each couple to a room. They explore, finding various clues, including a big empty aquarium. Just lots of empty clothes and discarded weapons, which of course they appropriate for themselves. Once they're aboard, discover the rig is actually a front for a top secret research laboratory but can find no one around. Afterwards, they run into an oil rig owned by Brinkstone, which it turns out is a corporation, except one none of them have ever heard of. They drift aimlessly until they come upon a dead body floating in the water, a security guard in a uniform that says "Brinkstone" on it. Indeed, they're so inept that they accidentally sink and explode their own yacht while transporting the heroin on the open ocean, leaving them and the two undercover agents stranded in a lifeboat.Īlex takes charge, to the annoyance of supposed leader Paul. ![]() The gang, consisting of Mark, his girlfriend Christine, Paul and Paul's girlfriend Linda, are strictly small-timers. the rest of the film).Īlex and another agent named Rachel, who is also his girlfriend, had been assigned to pose as drug dealers and infiltrate a gang of smugglers. It seems a routine undercover mission to bust a gang of heroin smugglers went awry, and Alex not only didn't recover the drugs, but he didn't arrest anyone. DEA agent Alex is in big trouble with his superior.
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