QUOTE(bartlojays @ Jul 16 2009, 11:20 PM)
You might be thinking of one of my favorites.....Creepshow 2, "the Raft" (middle story). Looks exactly like that gooey- blob lake monster that literally melts down those horny, stoned teenagers one by one.
Great movie!
I thought about that, but I've reconsidered.
Black oil, or black cancer is the name given to a form of extraterrestrial virus with the ability to control the host. The black oil (Purity) represents a form of extraterrestrial biological entity and an invasion force. It appears as a liquid with the consistency of crude oil, can move on its own, and is sentient. It can hibernate for thousands of years, usually in petroleum deposits. When it comes into contact with humans, it absorbs itself into the host, sometimes appearing to move directly under the skin and over the eyes of the victim. After pooling in the third ventricle of the brain (Vienen), it takes possession of the person and controls them. The oil is able to kill other humans by inflicting massive doses of radiation, though it is somehow able to simultaneously protect its host from injury. According to a conspiracy theorists the Black Oil was used by Iraq during the Gulf War.
The Syndicate, the shadow government, in cooperation with the alien colonists, developed a way to quietly introduce the virus into an unsuspecting public, through the use of bees. Mutations in the virus among bee colonies have caused massive die-offs in a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. The alien colonists are now be able to use human beings as a slave race. The Syndicate, however, secretly tried to create a vaccine to protect themselves, which they codename "Purity Control." While the Purity Control project ultimately failed, a rival Russian shadow group was recently successful in developing a weak vaccine which eventually falls into the hands of the Syndicate.
Later it is discovered that the Black Oil is able to use a human body as an incubator in order to gestate a grey alien being. The Syndicate was dismayed to learn this, but is pretending to work alongside the colonists while attempting to strengthen the weak Russian vaccine. Because human-alien hybrids are immune to the virus, many of the conspirators have allowed the abduction of family members to acquire this immunity and thus be safer in the future when colonization begins.
According to one expert, the entity first walked the earth before dinosaurs. Then the oil influenced human evolution and eventually went into hibernation underground. The expert also states that the colonists are planning to use the oil as part of their plan to repopulate Earth as they have done before to other civilizations in the universe.
The plot to cooperate with the alien colonization plan has been implemented with the aim of being given access to the Black Oil, in order to try and develop a vaccine.
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