Quite cheap-looking (like out of some dingy Sci-fi TV show) and restricted, sort of "Alien" schlock b-grade knock-off throws around the tackily unimaginative blood and gore (although there's one scene involving someone's upper body being torn apart), but not much else. In the year 2241, transport vessel Pandora is carrying an alien energy source, which seems to have a life of its own. Own their way to Earth, they receive a distress signal, a derelict spacecraft. Captain Holloway, the stand-in captain after the death of the ship's former captain and her fiancée, decides to check it out. At first the ship appeared to be empty, but suddenly four beautiful nurse's (dressed in skimpy airline outfits) show up to be only survivors of a space pirate raid. However it's revealed the vixen nurses are the actual pirates and begin to take over the Pandora, but one of them is affected by some sort of green plague that has ruptured from the alien energy source the ship's transporting. She mutates in to a monstrous creature with a thirst for blood as the crew begin to fall victims to the virus turning in to demonic plaguers, while the energy source begins to deplete the ship's oxygen levels as the ship hurdles to earth. The simple-minded story isn't that bad in its idea, but the execution is fairly slipshod (like the cat-fight between the captain and leader of the pirates in where they were punching without force), the script is interminably dumb and so are the stale performances. Steve Railsback's amusingly robotic performance… yes he plays an android… no sorry syndroid reminds me of Lance Hendrick's Bishop from "Aliens". His interactions with the crew are quite amusing too, like the mash potato sequence. Most of the actions are clumsy, corn-riddled, goofy (a mutation releasing green snot onto a dead body to rejuvenate it) and boringly repetitive amongst a haunted house like structure, but it does win points on having someone donning a ridiculous looking rubber monster suit and going out on a grim end. "Plaguers" didn't come off for me, but it knows what it wants to be and recklessly delivers on that generic fodder.

"Didn't your parents teach you not to pick up hitchers?"

Plaguers sounds like an Immature Fraternity knick-name for a disease, and thats exactly describes the production value, script and plot of this film. You've seen this all B4, a space-ship full of renegades and misfits answers the call for help of another ship and either is hunted down on that ship, or brings something aboard their ship that hunts them down one by one. Here they smuggled some energy source that gives off so much energy it can raise the dead. So they answer an S.O.S. call of a ship. The ship is filled with hot young nurses. The nurses turn about to be pirates and roll the crew. Someone dies and is resurrected by the energy source and the (SPACE) ZOMBIE plague starts from there.

Receiving a distress signal from a nearby ship, the crew of a commercial freighter rescues a band of women left inside who take over the ship, but while doing so accidentally unleash an alien virus that mutates those it comes into contact with into a deformed beast forcing them to try to get off the ship alive.

This one ended up being a solid enough effort. Among the better aspects featured here is the rather enjoyable build-up that manages to get a lot to like. The different side-stories about the crew-members distrusting the new captain and how she took control of the ship shortly before meeting up by an accident to the former captain who was her partner serve as a great introduction to the group. As well, the discovery of the crew of the distressed ship who turn out to be the ones who try to take over the ship but end up releasing the virus by accident when they end up disrupting the power source stowed away onboard. This dynamic between the two crews and how they both respond to the virus that overtakes everyone, where they get turned into monstrous, deformed mutants, has plenty to like. That also carries over nicely into the rather enjoyable action-packed confrontations on display. The start of the madness comes quickly as the sequences featuring the rapid-decomposing creatures due to the outbreak from the ruptured power source has a lot to like, much like the battles in the ship corridors where the two sides come together to fight off the advancing hordes. From there, the ever-growing hordes of creatures looking to turn the remaining crew stalking them through the ship creates plenty of high-energy action featuring wholly impressive monsters and gore engaging in fine battles across the various confines and areas. Mixing in some fine double-crosses about who is out for themselves, there's plenty of enjoyable aspects to be had with this one. This one doesn't have too much to dislike about it. The main issue here is the blatant and outright plagiarism used to help sell the story, featuring scenes and concepts lifted wholesale from other films that are quite important to the genre. They're quite easy to spot and not useful or doing anything different with them, making for a rather disappointing utilization if that's the case here. As well, the other problem is the completely ridiculous reasoning here for ensuring the device stays on-board which continues to produce new mutations through exposure to it which is all done for monetary gain that no one justifiably warrants. This process is quite confusing and doesn't have any internal reasoning to keep it on there, which when added to the underwhelming CGI are what lowers this one overall.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.