An alien starship
crashlands in a swamp in a U.S. forest
causing t as a bunch of mosquitos drink
the blood from the alien corpses causing
them to grow gigantic to the size of a
vulture.
They get more hungry for human blood and
go on a killing spree to locals at a
campground that complain about skeeter
bites. Well they have every reason now as
they all drop like flies.
A new park ranger named Megan (Rachel
Loiselle) and her boyfriend Ray (Tim
Lovelace) tries to find out how these
insects grew so large as they run into a
meteor chaser named Parks (Steve Dixon)
as well as a dipstick park ranger named
Hendricks (Ron Asheton) who tries to
survive this madness by blowing any
attacking mosquito with a shotgun but
things get worst for them as they run
into thieves led by a guy named Earl
(Gunnar Hansen) who wants what is right
for him but has no choice but to stick
together and hunt for the mosquitos
breeding ground.
You just start to
wonder how bad this film will be and it
looks like a straight dark comedy at
first with bad writing but then it gets
better and the horror does happen.
We get lots of bad special effects too
but it's still interesting to watch
nevertheless. It's almost a take on those
old fashioned insect horror flicks. In
fact it's almost like a spoof.
It's a good look at people's irritation
to skeeter bites but imagine if they grew
large and in need for blood.
Most of the
supporting cast acted they they took
lessons from Troma Team. However, some
did a great job so lets look here....
Steve Dixon stoiod out the most with
his solid performance so I have to give
him credit for that.
Rachel Loiselle was another one who
does well as a new park ranger and knew
how to act tough too.
However, Ron Asheton needed
acting lessons as a dipstick park ranger
but sometimes peresented himself well in
some spots of the whole film.
Gunnar Hansen was delightful as a
bad ass robber who really showed his
talents other than a chainsaw wielding
mute retarded Laetherface we all loved
him in as he deserved great credit for
his part.
However, supporting actor Mike Hard
who played his sibling really lacked as
he was overly dramatic.
There is a brief butt shot
on supporting actor Kenny Mugwump while
running out of an outhouse.
There is a breast and butt shot on bit
part actress Margaret Gomoll
lying in a tent.
Giant mosquito's
stab people in the eye and other body
parts as well as sucking their life out
causing their eyeballs to explode.
The directing by Gary
Jones is extremely corny and
well.... pretty bad for most of it. We do
have a good moment with both actors
Tim Lovelace and Rachel
Loiselle having a dialogue together
after encountering a roadkill of a giant
mosquito they hit along with some good
shots too.
There's a dialogue between John
Reneaud and Ron Asheton discussing
about the skeeter bite issues which
looked ultra lame and unnecessary for
this type of film as Lloyd Kaufman could
have easily directed this piece.
There's a good shot on a regular skeeter
drinking blood from a man's arm.
There's a perfect shot on Asheton
coming out of a shack with a big skeeter
sraying type of weapon looking like a
hero but it falls flat when he runs
around everyone spraying the stuff in the
air.
Then we have supporting actors Gunnar
Hansen, Mike Hard and Kenny
Mugwump as robbers wandering outside
in a forest as their vehicle broke down
acting like the Three Stooges.
There is a good shot on Mugwump running
out of an outhouse and then a good
special effects shot with a giant
mosquito chasing after him.
We have great shots on a moquito
attacking bit part actor Joel Hale
in a fishing boat.
We see a great shot on a giant mosquito
breaking into a tent and a good close up
shot on bit part actress Margaret
Gomoll looking scared but her
reaction to screaming is extremely fake.
The direction gets alot better as the
story gets more serious about the killer
mosquitos that involves all actors Steve
Dixon, Lovelace and Loiselle
having a discussion on what's going
on while searching a campground.
There is a good camera rolling by with
the extras as corpses coming up to Dixon
who looks freaked by all of this.
There's great reactions by Dixon,
Asheton, Lovelace and Loiselle
when they hear the giant mosquito's
buzzing their way and they try to
scramble into a vehicle as you wonder if
they will make it on time as Jones
really knew how to pack some chills
there.
There is a nice dark shot on Hansen
from the forest approaching with a gun in
his hand.
A nice brawling scene between Hansen
and Dixon fighting for a gun
likewise with Hard and Lovelace.
A good close up shot on Lovelace
about to hit Hard.
There's many great shots with the giant
mosquito's attacking a trailer as well as
Hansen really being mean and
threatening by holding an axe next to Loiselle
A great shot on Hard being
pitted against a mosquito with neat close
ups on the cheesy effects.
A good shot on the forest with some mist
and some of the surviving cast walking
through.
A good spinning shot on Asheton
escaping in a pipe as well as others
battling some mosquitos.
Great close up shots on the mosquito's
hatching from eggs in a cellar.
There's a perfect shot on Hansen
with his chainsaw sawing a mosquito as
well as him sawing open a door in a
Leatherface type fashion and showing that
he still has that motive.
There are many terrific shots on the
great outdoors as well as the lake and
campsites too.
The music by Allen
and Randell Lynch was extremely
hokey and corny like having a slapstick
appeal to it from the first part of the
film but then we have some neat cheesy
synthesizer creepy type music once the
film picks up.
Parks USAF Meteor Chaser:
Then we get rid of it. Whatever it takes.
Hendricks the Park Ranger: I knew
it! I knew you were gonna say that. I
could have stayed in my little cubby hole
under that boat, till the cops showed up.
But noooooooo... you guys had to come
along and find me. And NOW I'm on a
mission to save the world from giant
mosquitos! Man, the late show doesn't get
any better than this.
Parks USAF Meteor Chaser:
[breathing] In the basement. Eggs,
mosquito eggs. Hundreds of them,
thousands of them.
Ray, Megan's Boyfriend: Oh, man...
Hendricks
the Park Ranger: Hey Doc, that's
science fiction bullshit!
Parks USAF Meteor Chaser: No,
Hendricks. You... are living... in
science fact!
Earl
(Holding a chainsaw):
Aint life a bitch!!!!
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