Eye Candy #397 - "Doomwatch"

Doomwatch:  Based on the BBC show of the same, this feature film is a continuation of their adventures to save the world from pollution and ecological disasters.  Doomwatch is the name or the organization, with DOOM easily being the worst department acronym ever (it stands for Department for the Observation and Measurement of Scientific Work, instead of, y‘know, DOOM!!!).  Ian Bannen is Dr. Del Shaw, sent to the small island off the British coast to check on the effects of an oil spill.  He instead finds an insular community with a darker secret to hide, as they have been exposed to other chemicals causing rampant acromegly and deformities in the population.  Part eco-thriller and part science procedural, the plot involves around finding the cause of the deformities and saving the populace (whether they want to be saved or not).  Not a horror movie as some describe it, it feels like a glorified TV movie and hasn’t aged well (the general cavalier attitude about the disposal of nuclear waste being one tip-off to its datedness).  And it is yet more proof, along with the “Wicker Man”, that you should never go to an island off the British coast - there are freaky people out there.  Woodchuck sez, “Middle of the road.”