Top of the Food Chain (1999)

Wonderful character development!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

What can I say? This movie is one of my all-time favorites. With classic lines such as: "I found a dead body, deceased, in the bumpy part of town, outside of town." "The creature that killed him had anywhere between two hundred and two hundred and two teeth, but I can't be any more specific than that." "Jan Bathgate once caught a fish the shape of my head." "Why- these are Jan Bathgate's undergarments! I would know these anywhere! They have that easy opening trap door....What? A man's entitled to a little sexual experimentation in his golden years!" ..and kudos to the entire cast for wonderful, perfectly eccentric performances.--You just can't go wrong with this one. Every single friend that I've shared this movie with has loved it as much as I, and there's so many little treats you pick up on in repeat viewings...I honestly feel sorry for any individual who just didn't get this movie, but they probably never will. (I guess thats the point, really.) Oh well. Enjoy.

'Top of the food chain' is a parody of the science fiction movies of the 50s which preceded the horror stories a few decades before Polanski and the gang turned horror into a genre that cannot be ignored. It makes clear from the beginning that it is not to be taken too seriously, and keeps all over an air of freshness and authenticity, avoiding any computerized special effects. It looks like a film of the 50s with a smile, the only real big miss, but a big one is the lack of a more effective humor. Gags like the ones in this film seem too innocent to viewers have seen the heavier parody stuff of the last years. The team of anonymous actors does a decent job, among them best was in my opinion Fiona Loewi who really catches the attention and deserves some better or broader distributed roles.

I picked this up in sales-crate at my local video store. Under genre it said :Splatter satire. This caught my attention.The sci-fi spoofs are great, and the dialogue is genius. Campbell Scott plays a great Atomic Scientist and Fiona Loewi plays the sexy bed and breakfast hostess beautifully. Not only is she sexy, but even though she has an incestous relationship with her brother, you would still like to date her.This movie is for people who understands irony (which apparently some IMDB-users haven't), and like the splatter genre. Though it isn't by far a hard-core splatter, the scenes that are gory, works very well. Watch it as a comedy and as a caricature of old sci-fi movies.

This was a stupid, miserable, foolish movie that was a total waste of time! I was expecting a little more and was very disappointed since it received so many good reviews from IMDB viewers. I wanted to give it a zero rating but I had to settle for a 1 which was the lowest allowed.This totally unfunny sci-fi spoof was made by the producers for $1.98. There were no special effects and was a one joke film that was totally BORING!!! It tied my personal worst films of all time with "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "The Blair Witch Project". At least Plan 9 had some laughs(though unintentional).The first half of this hodgepodge was exactly like the sci-fi classic "The War of the Worlds" and the last half like other fifties & Sixties sci-fi films with "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" being the most dominant.I may be in the minority with this opinion but remember you have been forewarned!!! After watching the first 10 minutes start switching channels because you've seen it all.....and if you rented it- Lots of Luck!