A fast-moving plague is ripping through the country with a mortality rate of 100% in co-writer/director Corey “GoreCore” Andrews’s The Treatment and the Cure. People break out in angry skin lesions, start bleeding, and eventually vomit blood. Hospitals and health officials are overworked and helpless. In the midst of the hysteria, two rogue scientists, Reagan Weaver (Marla Cockerell) and Sam Marshall (John Clark), work out of a remote, makeshift lab, ever closer to finding the cure as the world outside collapses around them.
Reagan and Sam face two problems. First, they are running out of volunteers for their serum. Second, unbeknownst to Sam, Reagan has been infected. When the last batch of the serum fails, Reagan is desperate to find the cure and save herself. She pushes Sam to the brink of insanity and resorts to kidnapping “volunteers.”
The plague’s gruesome effects are shown in graphic detail in The Treatment and the Cure.
“When the last batch of the serum fails, Reagan is desperate to find the cure and save herself.”
The Treatment and the Cure, co-written by Robert DeCoste and Kyle Fahie, is an off-the-chain gore fest that makes up for the cheap sets and a light case of overacting. Andrews paces the action well, keeping it to just over 7 minutes. Our tale starts at a nice, leisurely pace, featuring our heroes doing good, then builds to a bloody, gory ending, in which no one comes out unscathed. The make-up and gore effects help create a true B-horror vibe.
Andrews keeps The Treatment and the Cure moving like a runaway lab cart, where no one comes out in one piece, let alone two.
"…the make-up and gore effects help create a true B-horror vibe."
