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Once again we’ve got a special super-secret advance preview for you, folks–today we’re talking about Pandemic, which will be available for you to see just in time for Halloween, October 27th.  And though it will be familiar ground to say the least, you should still get something out of it.

Pandemic brings us a small town veterinarian who’s discovered something very odd about the local wildlife.  It’s developing a particularly nasty bug that kills within hours (and not too many of them) of exposure.  Worse, this bug not only does horrendous things to critters, it also does likewise to humans. And once the army gets wind of it, well, here we go on the trail to Quarantine Town, with stops in Eventually We’re Going to Commit Mass Murder Village.  So now, our veterinarian is going to have to get to the bottom of all this and hopefully manage to get out alive in the process.

Yes, the comparisons between this and other pandemic titles like Outbreak and The Crazies and such will be so inevitable as to make most folks wonder what took them so long getting there, but they’re no less accurate for the inevitability.  If you couldn’t get enough of scientist heroes, then Pandemic is going to be right up your alley.  It’ll seem familiar, but this shouldn’t be interpreted as bad.  They don’t seriously screw anything up here and play it all very strictly by the numbers.

Advance warning, however–this sucker could not be much more depressing if it tried.  Of course, for those of you out there who believe that the United States government is actually capable of testing biological weapons on humanity, you’ll get a sort of cold vindication out of this movie.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands Pandemic a six out of ten for a lot of unoriginal material, but for at least not bungling what it stole very hard.