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<B>*Blood* *Not Particularly Violent* *Some Strong Language* *No Nudity* *No Sexual Situations*  *Gory*</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>1987/Color/98 Min./RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video & Spectrafilm </B></div> <div> <B>& Mithras LXVII,LXVIII,LXVIX Limited Partnerships/Canada/Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............William Fruet (Bedroom Eyes, </B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......George Goldsmith</B></div> <div> <B>Music................Patrick Coleman & Paul Novotvy</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Martin Walters</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Thomas Fox</B></div> <div> <B>Creature Effects by Sirius Effects & Steve Nell</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>The Creature....Ivan E. Roth (Hollywood Zap)</B></div> <div> <B>Jim Railsback...Steve Railsback (Alligator II, Trick or Treat)</B></div> <div> <B>Rachel Carlson..Gwynyth Walsch</B></div> <div> <B>Roger Levering..John Vernon (Animal House, Curtains, The Uncanny)</B></div> <div> <B>George Baker....Joe Flaherty (SCTV, The Best of John Candy))</B></div> <div> <B>Sandra Baker....Robin Duke</B></div> <div> <B>Judith Glass....Susan Anspach (Devil and Max Devlin, Five Easy Pieces)</B></div> <div> <B>Elliot Jacobs...Don Lake</B></div> <div> <B>Marwella........Helen Hughes (The Incubus, The Peanut Butter Solution)</B></div> <div> <B>Fred............Sandy Webster </B></div> <div> <B>Dede Wilkins....Joy Coghill</B></div> <div> <B>Joey............Stuart Stone</B></div> <div> <B>Anthony Rivers..Phillip Akin</B></div> <div> <B>Alice Bradley...Cynthia Belleveau</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Not self-aware enough to be ironic, not funny enough to be comedy, this mutant/science movie is by genre an unfunny, unironic, let's go back to crummy drive-in monster horror movie which is never scary. The biggest mistake in this expensive, well-paced, well-produced movie: for bugs to be scary they have to be right after you and these bugs incredibly never really get near anyone. The Det./Dr. romance subplot never gets off the ground, and the preponderance of supporting roles and go-nowhere cameos doesn't help steady the course. What's missing here is precisely that which this movie's 1950s precursors had most: an unbending dedication to the boring story line. What the hell is going on at the end? If you long for those lousy bug movies from the fifties, get this or one of those, rent a vcr because you definately don't have one, pop in a tv dinner at your lonely efficiency, and take the phone off the hook (if necessary). The score at the end would be more appropriate for an investigation than a showdown and certainly dampens the climax but this film is always a step too slow, an edit too quick, with too much background, not enough monster footage. The Baker's and the Entomologist provide attempted comic relief.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Elderly Marwella maintains a resplendent greenhouse with occasional mechanical help from handyman Fred, whom she dates. One of her plants, a new breed from Colakae, a newly formed volcanic island just south of Micronesia, becomes sickly overnight and pricks Fred badly upon inspection. As Fred loads his truck he is stricken and collapses of a mighty ugly looking finger infection. At the hospital Left index finger insect bite is the immediate diagnoses with rapidly spreading synogystic gangrene. At the same time another dying man, a detective is brought in by his partner Det. Bishop. As they tend to him, Fred has a seizure and dies and an hideous bluish larvae crawl out of his mouth. The doctor shows Det. Bishop the new laser research lab where they will soon perform molecular breakdown experiments in the new renovated of the former insane asylum. Marwella is in a contamination ward. At the Lincoln Institute for disease control, research on the larvae continues, the outside of which is just a shell and they don't know what's in it, bacteria, a parasite?  As hospital administration worries about bad publicity for County Memorial, the doctor opens the thing, and thick green slime runs from the cut. At the second incision, sparks fly and the scalpel is flung across the room. They cover it under glass and call an Entomologist. One of the paramedics who brought Fred in has come down with the same symptoms. Nurse Alice is left in the operating room with the thing under glass and instructed "Do not let that thing out of your site!" As the gruff and macho detective bonds with the sick children of County Memorial, his partner is in surgery. George and Sandra Baker attempt to check in to the hospital without labor pains but according to anal retentive George's charts. As Fred flatlines and the staff attempts to defibrulate, his chest explodes. Marwella takes the news hard and gets drunk with her blind roommate. Disorderly orderly Ted drags Alice out to smoke a joint and they leave "Jiminy Cricket" unguarded. In all now four patients share Fred's symptoms and some staff members refuse to go near them. Meanwhile at the Lincoln Center, the researchers are amazed by the complexity of the stain of bacteria they examine. A Class 4 quarantine and all the necessary precautions are ordered for the point of origin where the guests of the pediatric ward are playing in the lab unsupervised when they attempt to feed "the sad bug" out of sympathy. Entomologist Dr. Elliot Jacobs is picked up by Tony in the County General courtesy car (a Beetle) to inspect "the worm". The stoned staff meanwhile is making out on an operating table when they are interupted by "noises". As Det. Bishops partner weakens, Dr. Jacobs arrives and is brought to the lab, which is found ransacked. The staff is missing and a bottle labeled NAC5, a growth stimulator (sad bug food), is found empty in the lab. A power outage strikes the hospital as officials burn Marwella's greenhouse and quarantine the hospital as the staff attempts to escape. As panic breaks out in the hospital, a handyman discovers two gigantic egg sacks in the slime-filled boiler room before he is gobbled up by the sad bug. The three heroes enter the boiler room where they encounter a now gargantuan thing (Blue monkey?) with a service revolver. The Entomologist attempts to get closer to it when he realizes the hermaphroditic creature is giving live birth. The female to which it gives birth should be able to reproduce within an hour, maybe 500-600 eggs based on analogous species. The bugs move through a tunnel to where the more dangerous patients were once kept. Unfortunately, the pediatric ward is already down there investigating. "I bet we're going to find a big blue monkey!" remarks one child before they decide to head back having found nothing. The breeding potential for a pair of these could be 100,000,000 a year, the eggs full grown and reproducing within days. They have to wipe these things out. "Incendiary attack would be the most practical." surmises Dr. Jacobs. Little Joey leads Det. Bishop into the bowels of the hospital with a butane tank ready to do battle. The now healthy Marwella has found one key to stopping the spread. The four patients who didn't consume half a pint of whiskey are near death. Having located the brood, Det. Bishop naively sends Joey back up to the hospital and he and the Dr.s close in on the bugs from both sides as the government deadline on the destruction of the hospital nears.</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/f/1204/1181/24h/www.affiliate.net/affnet/images/vid_dvd468X60C.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Check Out Our Horror Collection"></A>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>