The Alpha Incident (1978)

Summary: The government is sending a newly discovered microorganism that was taken from our Moon and sending it, via train, to a facility to specifically figure out what it is. However the train ride does not go smoothly as a hobo ends up taking a peak at it and he’ll soon infect a few railroad staff at one of the stops on the line. Soon, the U.S. government must quarantine them all in order to figure out what’s going on. But our survivors may not make it out alive.           Overall: This film really tried to tell a story of 5 people slowly losing their minds due to being unable to fall asleep. However none of the characters are truly sympathetic and they don’t work well together. And when the only way they’ll end up dying, is when they fall asleep...well, the film gets quite predictable. And yet, I still found the interactions among them all not to be very realistic. Despite all their arguments and yelling and whatever, our lone woman of the cast still wants to get every one of them into bed anyway. And frankly, the film just didn’t do much for me.           Comparison: Outbreak meets Species

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