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Directed
by:
Guillermo del Toro
Written
by:
Matthew Robbins &
Guillermo del Toro
Starring:
Mia Sorvino .... Dr.
Susan Tyler
Jeremy Northam .... Dr.
Peter Mann
Alexander Goodwin ....
Chuy
Giancarlo Giannini ....
Manny
Charles S. Dutton ....
Leonard
Josh Brolin .... Josh
Alix Koromzay .... Ramy
F. Murray Abraham ....
Dr. Gates
James Costa .... RickyRelease
Date: Theatrical:
August 22, 1997; Venice
Film Festival: September
2, 1997 (Italy);
Deauville Film Festival:
September 6, 1997
(France); Fantasporto
Film Festival: February
21, 1998
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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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