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?

When two of the four characters get knocked off right at the beginning of the film, you start to wonder how the filmmaker plans to spend the rest of his time. This might have been a good cannibal movie. It might have been a good Tarzan movie. But changing the focus in the middle just feels like cheating. The original title, "Holocaust Holocaust" is misnomer enough. Nothing remote resembles a holocaust and there is no porno, either. The film looks great. Amanda Cole does a good job as Anna as does her eventual love interest, Noshir Dalal. The movie *looks* great. However, it sound horrible in places as if they re-dubbed the dialog (this Garth Merenge's Darkplace). It should be pointed out that a theoretical period piece set in 1987 should NOT include music that's auto-tuned playing on the radio. With 16mins left to go, I bailed on what turned out to be a chick flick with faux-cannibals, minimal gore and no nudity. Had I spent money to watch it, I'd feel cheated. However, I watched this on creepster.TV (which I can't recommend enough) and the amount great stuff I've watched on it offsets the disappointment.

This is not an easy film to categorise. I would certainly not place it in the 'Horror' category as it contains only brief 'cannibal' references and a short 'zombie' scene at the end.It is an extremely well photographed movie which was shot on location in the British Virgin Islands. The director, Sofian Khan, has made intelligent use of the natural facilities at his disposal with the vast scale of the beautiful landscape and natural habitat placing the intruding humans into perspective. The four tourist strandees are isolated within an area of great beauty but one in which provides a wild and inhospitable environment containing elements of danger.The early part of the film ably presents a contrast between a carefree, luxurious lifestyle and a gradual transition to life in an hostile environment which then develops into a fight for survival. It is a transfer from life in the modern age with its comforts to that of a primitive time where the fittest (or luckiest) survives. A short flashback sequence neatly sets the background to the past lifestyle of the principal characters. It carries a message that when you dabble in finance and gamble on your luck, with their inherent risks, you can easily plunge back from wealth to poverty as fast as it was acquired in the first place. In the case of the four characters in the film, the dangers become physical as well as being on paper with a life of luxury quickly turning into a nightmare. Pain and anxiety replace pleasure with simple, primitive tools of survival replacing the instruments of pleasure in the scale of importance to life.The abrupt death of two of the stranded tourists, about a third of the way through the film, heightens the feeling of isolation for the two who remain. There is a consequent change in atmosphere from this point with the growing realisation of the precarious nature of their situation. The demise of one of these characters and the introduction of the tribesman then presents a further transition involving a change from fear and desperation to one of coming to terms with the situation and the development of the romantic element.It is towards the end of the film that I feel that an opportunity for story development was lost. Personally, I would have liked the film to have devoted more time to exploring the relationships not only between the remaining female tourist and the tribesman but with other members of the tribe, eg reconciling conflicting attitudes and beliefs. A move down this route was made with one of these characters proclaiming 'You have changed me'. But there was scope for further movement down this path instead of the unexpected introduction of the 'Zombie' element in the final 10 minutes.With regard to individual performances, I was very impressed with Noshir Dalal, in the role of the nimble and athletic cannibal named Kohi, and Kitty Cole as Anna, the tourist survivor. I note that both have only a relatively small amount of previous movie experience but this fact was not evident from their performances in this film. Kitty has a most challenging role, which involved displaying a range of emotions, and she passed the test with flying colours. Two other lead performers, Suzi Lorraine and Kris Eivers, are more experienced and both enhanced their reputations. Suzi proved to be the ideal choice as the glamorous tourist named Sandy. I have seen Suzi in several films portraying various types of characters. Once again, versatile Suzi demonstrated that she has the skill to handle any role that she is presented with regardless of genre. In this case, we had the perfect blend of location, namely tropical sea, island beach, and Suzi! Apart from slight reservations about the short length of the film (just over 70 minutes) and the way in which it ended, I found this to be visually impressive film with a good storyline and some excellent quality performances.