'Parasyte: The Grey' review: It wants to eat your brain, not melt it

'Before going into battle with parasites, I inspire myself by watching 80s' action flicks. Now I have a shotgun, ho ho ho.' Photos: Handout

Why do tropical fruits have such malevolent outer-space counterparts? First, those space "mangosteens" of Alien: Covenant which disgorged lethal spores that wafted up dumb explorers' noses and grew into beastly parasites inside their bodies.

Now, we have unripe space rambutans that fall to Earth and disgorge beastly parasites that want to eat our brains and control our bodies.