altered specie start one friday night in los angeles where dr. irwin ( guy vieg ) and his laboratory assistant walter ( allen lee haff ) be burn the midnight oil a they continue to try and perfect a revolutionary new drug call rejenacyn . a walter tip the late failed attempt down the sink the pipe leak the florescent green liquid into the basement where escape lab rat begin to drink it . five of walter friend and alicia ( leah rown in a very fetching outfit include some cool boot that she get to stomp on a rat with ) and gary ( richard peterson ) and burke ( derek hofman ) and frank ( david bradley ) and chelsea ( alexandra townsend ) decide that he have be work too hard and need to get out so they plan to pick him up and party the night away . back at the lab and the clean douglas ( robert broughton ) have be attack and kill by the now homicidal rat in the basement a walter inject the late batch of serum in a lab rat which break out of it cage a it grow at an amazing rate . walter friend turn up but he can not leave while the rat be still miss so everyone help him look for it . all six become potential rat food . also know a rodentz alter specie be co edited and direct by mile feldman and have very little to recommend it . the script by producer serge rodnunsky be poor and couple together with the general shoddiness of the production a a whole altered specie really be lame . for a start the character be dumb and annoy and clichéd . then there the unoriginal plot with the mad scientist and the monster he have create and the isolated location and the stranded human cast and the obligatory final showdown between hero and monster . it all here somewhere . altered specie move along at a fair pace which be just about the best thing i can say about it and thankfully doesn not last that long . it basically your average run of the mill killer mutant rat film and not a particularly good one at that either . director feldman film like a tv film and the whole thing be throughly bland and forgettable while some of the special effect and attack scene leave a lot to be desire . for a start the cgi rat be awful and the attack sequence feature hand hold jerky camera movement and really quick edits to try and hide the fact that all the rat be just passively sit there . at various point in altered specie the rat cage need to shake because of the rat movement but you can clearly see all the rat just sit there a someone shake the cage off screen . the giant rat monster at the end look pretty poor a it just a guy in a dodgy suit . there be no scare and no tension or atmosphere and since when do basement contain bright neon lighting . there be one or two nice bit of gore here and someone have a nice big messy hole where their face use to be and there a severed arm and decapitation and lot of rat bite and someone have their eyeball yank out and a dead mutilate cat . technically altered specie be sub standard throughout . it take place within the confines of one building and have cheap look cgi effect and low production value . the act isn not up to much but it isn not too bad and a special mention to leah rowan as alicia a she a bit of a babe and make altered specie just that little bit nice and easy to watch . altered specie isn not a particularly good film and in fact it a pretty bad one but i suppose you could do bad . not great but it might be worth a watch if your not too demand and have nothing else to do .