They make it obvious it's a parasite within the first 15 minutes of the movie, are distributors so stupid they don't understand the difference...or do they think the audience is so stupid they'll watch it because it's a current buzz word for meme content? Either way it's stupid.
The movie isn't very good either.
I haven't even seen the movie and I was essentially thinking the same thing
shareAre you sure you watched the movie? A worm type parasite comes out of the infected at one point directly in front of the camera. They made it pretty obvious.
shareUh...yeah.
That's what OP is complaining.
I should rephrase because my first post sounds dumb, but I was implying that the parasite is what carries the virus. A silly movie thing to do either way, but I think that's what they were going for.
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I doubt it. All the examples given during the highly-foreshadowing science class we straight up parasitic infections. The movie is okay as long as you don't take it too seriously (expect standard zombie-type movie stuff and truly dreadful decision making on behalf of literally every character) but the title bugged the ever-loving crap out of me.
shareYeah the title sounds like something that was decided on by money men rather than based in the logic of the film.
That whole classroom discussion would have been better off mentioning Guinea Worm (which is a multicellular worm that causes its hosts to seek water to alleviate the burning in their legs, where the worm's sores can burst and spray eggs into the water supply) and Ophiocordyceps (zombie ant fungus) than the examples he gave anyway.
The effects of Toxoplasmosis are extremely overstated in news articles, more recent studies have shown that rats infected with T. gondii's natural fear responses to cat urine are within the margin of expected error for uninfected rats... i.e. it's not some kind of mind control suicider to its host.
Ophiocordyceps on the other hand... you can watch time-lapsed videos of infected ants climbing to the tops of blades of grass to be eaten by birds, and even see the fungus erupting from the head of the ant eventually if they don't get eaten quickly, it's gruesome.
For the same reason they think a pool would save people from a series of missile strikes.
shareViral particles can be parasitic in their functional role in a host.