A
group of scientists finds a miracle cure
that stops the spread of a deadly
disease.
They experiment it on cockroaches and
over the next three years the cockroaches
in their city of New York have grown
human sized and live in the subway areas
making their way in other parts of the
town areas as they mimic people in order
to trap and eat them or other living
things and threatens to wipe out an
entire city unless these scientists stop
them in time.
The head scientists Doctor Susan Tyler
(Mia Sorvino) and Doctor Peter Mann
(Jeremy Northam) goes on a battle with
these creatures in the subway station to
try and wipe them out. Along with them is
the head New York police officer named
Leonard (Charles S. Dutton) and a local
subway shoeshiner named Manny (Giancarlo
Giannini) who is looking for his lost son
named Chuy (Alexander Goodwin) as he is
wondering around the areas down there.
But they all realise is that their lives
are all at risk with these creatures
looming around down there.
This was a cool
flick for anyone who had fear with bugs
or other insects and watching this they'd
have every right to.
It's very imaginative and creepy too
bringing back the classic style of those
50's type giant insect horror flicks
proving that 90's films can have an
effective chemistry for movies like this
too bringing it up to date.
The special effects are great too.
The acting is well
done and have a well supported cast in
it.
Mia Sorvino really concentrates
on her role incredibly well as she proves
worthy as a character actress.
Two supporting actors that stand out in
my mind is child actor Alexander
Goodwyn as he is an interesting
character watching the cockroaches and
analyzing at what they do as well as the
one who plays his father Giancarlo
Giannini who plays a good worker
shining shoes at a subway station trying
to support him and his son.
Another worthy actor is Charles S.
Dutton as he played a good
aggressive sarcastic police officer
trying to investigate the cases of the
giant cockroaches in the subway areas.
A dog is eaten by
a giant cockroach.
A rotting corpse is lying down in the
subway area
An officer leg is slit.
There is slimy gore effects with the
cockraoches when they are being
slaughtered
Guillermo
del Toro is marvellous with his work
in this film as he shows terrific shots
of the giant cockroaches disguising
themselves as even you can be fooled
while watching the film that they're
people. He makes the
scenery look very dark with the
surroundings of these ugly bugs.
He directed the scene where Sorvino was
trying to escape these creatures after
being kidnapped by one of them very
suspensefully.
You will be glued to the screen when you
see Jeremy Northam's character
rubbing himself with cockroach blood
while lying in a passageway with one of
the cockroaches crawling over him and he
wonders if it will notice that he's a
predator or not as you will twitch hoping
that he will be okay.
Another scene looks terrific when Sorvino
runs away from a cockroach while a
subway train is coming as you think to
yourself, what is going to happen to her?
We have terrific classical
music Marco Beltrami which he
has powerful composing in almost every
suspenseful moment.
He has worked in countless mainstream
films making them sound superb like in
this one including Joy Ride
and The Omen remake.
Chuy:
Funny shoes!
Peter
Mann: Leonard, have you ever seen
anything like this before?
Leonard: Why you asking me if I've
seen some shit like this before? Do I
look like I've seen some shit like this
before? Hell, no I a'int never seen no
shit like this before. Who the fuck would
wanna climb up one of these walls and
hang one of these? Musta been a big
elephant-ass motherfucker.
Susan
Tyler: Sometimes an insect will even
mimic its predator.
Susan
Tyler: They mimic us. We mimic them.
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