DESTINED TO BE INGESTED (2010)

DESTINED TO BE INGESTED is beautifully photographed. It was shot in the British Virgin Islands and took excellent advantage of the scenery. Unfortunately, that's the only good thing about it. The awkward, misleading title is just the beginning.



Set in 1987 (for no apparent reason), the story begins with four entitled, coke-sniffing Yuppies who end up marooned on an island inhabited by cannibals. Sounds like the set-up for a horror film, right? But it's really not one. Screenwriters Sofian Khan (who also directed) and Amanda "Kitty" Cole (who also starred) seemingly couldn't decide what type of movie they wanted to make, so they threw several genres together. The result is annoyingly disjointed.

At first, they're ripping off "Jaws." Then it becomes a hunted-by-cannibals film. When a handsome young native, Kohi, falls for the main character, Anna, we shift into "Enemy Mine" gear. When Anna becomes pregnant with Kohi's child, the people of his village insist that the outsider must be killed. So now the film channels, oh let's say, "Schindler's List." Finally, the zombie corpses of the three other Yuppies invade the village. Kohi is killed in the skirmish while Anna escapes the island in a canoe (which was never mentioned before). Welcome to "Night of the Dawn of the Living Dead."


In her IMDb entry, Amanda Cole is listed as "an actress and writer, known for 'Destined To Be Ingested' (2008) and 'The Wonderful World of Disney' (1997)." Hell of a resume, huh?