Mosquito

Thanks to the alien dead, mosquitoes grow to alarming sizes, with an insatiable blood-thirst that puts any human being in their path in danger. A park is threatened as the swarm of mosquitoes, whose droning can be heard afar off, head straight towards them. Wiping out campers, who had pitched tents or were out fishing, a motley group of survivors, a meteorologist, Parks(Steve Dixon)notices strange readings on his Geiger counter and soon meets a couple, Megan(Rachel Loiselle)soon to be a park ranger and her lame boyfriend Ray(Tim Lovelace, handed a lot of goofy one-liners which only add to the fun)as they soon encounter the camping grounds covered in shriveled corpses, their blood drained dry. Hiding underneath a boat is cowardly Hendricks(Ron Asheton)who informs the group of what caused the slaughter. The four of them, take a RV from a deceased victim, hitting the road where they come across a duo of bumbling criminals, having lost a third member to the mosquitoes. Bankrobber Earl(Gunnar Hansen, Leatherface of Hooper's TCM), a grumbling, not-so-pleasant sort, and his inept brother Junior wish to commandeer the group's RV escalating into a brawl which soon has them all working as a collective when the mosquitoes attack the vehicle as Parks drives down the road. The film follows the group as the mosquitoes lead them to an abandoned farmhouse with special guests whose "epi-center" is in the basement. Look, I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I clearly expected this to be a 90's variant on the "giant insect" creature features from the 50's and was pleased with the result. There's a charm, to be sure, with a film of non-names and mosquitoes which often look like puppets guided by handlers with sticks just off-screen. The farm house stand-off, which I felt was a homage to Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, is particularly a treat where Hansen has an inspired moment with a certain log-cutting tool that sounds off as it rips apart constructed mosquitoes. There's a ton of emphasis on acting, but I didn't think the cast was nowhere near as horrendous as others. If anything, they were a likable, spirited brood I could easily root for. But, I can't, for the life of me, help but wonder what viewers expect when they start up a movie like this..you didn't know this was about giant created mosquitoes, made with quite a less-than-thrilling budget, attacking an unknown cast(..only a low budget and a title like "Mosquito" could afford)? I think, if anything, there's a joy and enthusiasm quite present as the film plays out, with some good and mediocre effects of the mosquitoes. I thought the director kept a solid pace, and the plot is what it is, and there's not a lick of pretension, which I especially found rewarding. I enjoyed how the mosquitoes would thrust into the bodies of victims with their proboscis, draining the blood and how they exploded when fired upon by guns while in flight. The house explosion at the end left me quite amused, particularly with how a central character cheats death thanks in part to a refrigerator. I also felt that what lies within the basement was a homage, of sorts, to ALIEN. There is plenty of silly dialogue, delivered straightly, that works beautifully within the hokey confines of this film. My favorite scene actually doesn't have the mosquitoes in it at all..our heroic meteorologist finds a camp site riddled with corpses left in the wake of a mosquito attack.

One wonders what the producers were thinking of when they set up the premise of " Mosquitos become infected by sucking the blood of an alien crew who have crashed in to the Deep South causing them to grow " . If you're gonna have aliens in a movie then surely giant mutating mosquitos are unnecessary to the plot ? Likewise why introduce aliens if they're just going to kick start the plot ? Why just not use a chemical leak ? The latter point draws to your attention that this is a very retro type of horror movie with giant insects killing people that we'd often see in the 1950s . Perhaps that's why the aliens were needed ? so that the audience would be made aware that it's not really a film that should be taken seriously and is in fact camp B movie nonsense The characters are all clichéd stereotypes such as hunky and courageous male lead , nice girl establishment heroine , noble ethnic minority figure , nasty redneck criminal , comedy character with nearly everyone else marked down as red shirt who's just there to be killed . It's a somewhat cheesy , perhaps too cheesy to be a total success as this type of undemanding film and it is very predictable but it's hardly the worst film I've seen over the last few weeks on the Zone Horror channel and the producers and the rest of the crowd should feel a sense of pride with that

After a meteor plummets to Earth in the middle of nowhere, the mosquitoes of the area grow to prehistoric proportions and take over a national park. A few random people band together in an attempt to get to rescue and determine what exactly is going on with the giant murderous skeeters. I tend to like 'dumb' giant-bug sci-fi/horror movies, like 'Starship Troopers,' 'Them!'. . . even 'Eight Legged Freaks,' for some reason. Sadly, there isn't much to like about Mosquito. Even for a B sci-fi movie, this is bad. The acting is horrendous, the writing is even worse, the effects are ridiculous. . . the only thing even slightly good about it is the makeup on the corpses. That's all. It tries so hard to be funny: It's not. It tries to be a gross-out flick: It's not. It tries to be scary, even jump-scary: It's not. 'Mosquito' pretty much fails on every level that it could possibly want to be seen. It is watchable, at least. . . but that's about it. If you want to have a few beers and play 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000,' you might have fun. Again, that's about it. Final Verdict: 3.5/10. -AP3-

An enjoyably pulpy, trashy, competently mounted and energetically executed 50's style over-sized killer insect creature feature done with wonderfully sleazoid 90's type gore, nudity, profanity and general self-aware film buff fanaticism. An alien spaceship crashlands in a lake located nearby by a forest summercamp community. Bacteria from the spaceship infects the local mosquitoes and causes them to grow into hideous, butt-ugly, way lethal and voracious gigantic mutants who promptly develop an insatiable appetite for human blood. In short time lots of folks have been sucked dry, leaving the standard collection of mixed bag everyday schmo reluctant protagonists -- a hunky dude and his feisty girlfriend, a rugged, quick-thinking take-charge scientist, a constantly sniveling spineless clod, and a gang of bumbling criminals led by a portly, pony-tailed Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface in the original "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre") -- to destroy the bugs before they multiply and feast on the entire human race. Made on a modest, but well-used spare change budget in Detriot, Michigan, directed with tremendous go-for-it gusto by Gary Jones, acted with comparably infectious aplomb by an enthusiastic cast, with several slam-bang stirring insect attack set pieces (the sequence where an unrelenting swarm of flying mosquitoes attack a speeding camper especially smokes), a tasty plenitude of moist, squishy, blood-spilling and slime-slinging splatter, somewhat variable, but still funky special effects (the giant rubbery insects are really cool), a nice smattering of winningly witty B-movie in-jokes (a TV reporter named Allen Smithee, Gunnar wields a mean chainsaw in one scene, and there's a right-on raunchy send-up of the inevitable "have sex and die" backwoods fright flick cliché), a crackling forward-ho pace and a whole-hearted affection for gleefully junky $1.50 cheeseball horror cinema, "Mosquito" eagerly delivers a handy helping of good, gruesome, delightfully blunt and unpretentious straightahead dimestore monster fun.

The worst acting, directing, editing, and special effects I have ever seen. This movie is so bad it's good. If you don't own it already, buy a copy. Watching these amateurs bumble around the sets, reading choppy dialogue while being attacked by styro-foam insects, you suddenly realize that your life isn't so bad. "At least I wasn't part of the making of this movie." It is the feel good movie of a lifetime.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the plot or special effects that bring this movie down. The mosquitoes look fine for the most part, and since I live in an area SWARMING with mosquitoes, I found the idea of giant ones actually quite frightening. But what DOES bring the movie down is the acting. This movie contains some of the worst acting I have ever seen. Not surprising, considering the actors' filmographies (according to IMDb, the girl has only been in one movie: this one.). Gunnar Hanson is the notable exception, of course, playing the same character he did in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Steve Dixon is also tolerable, and tons of other reviewers have already pointed out that he is eerily similar to Chef from South Park (could they have based Chef on this guy!?). The rest of the cast, however, is pathetic. The fact that their lines are totally ridiculous doesn't help, either. The dumbest bit comes at one point near the end, when the leader is talking about his time in Nam, and the girl's "tough" boyfriend tries to lighten the moment with a joke: "Well, I was in the Cub Scouts. Try becoming a Weevil... now that's tough." Then they all sit back and have a hearty laugh. Only they don't stop laughing. They just laugh and laugh and laugh for about ten minutes straight like a bunch of drunken idiots, and they don't hear the mosquitoes until OH MY GOD IT'S TOO LATE. Yeah, the movie is full of cheesy stuff like that... better lines and better actors and they might have had a movie, but not this time. 4/10 stars. (P.S.- Not to drive this point into the ground, but I find it amazing that FOUR of the original reviewers mistook a refrigerator for a bathtub. I really want to go to these people's houses and see what kinds of bathtubs they have that open with a lid.)

Sometimes a movie is so terrible, descends so far to the very bottom of the curve, that it actually comes round again and turns out to be pretty good. Such is Mosquito, the sort of thing shown at third rate drive ins.I honestly don't know whether it was supposed to be funny or not but it is hilarious, all the more so because we live in a part of the world famous for its swarms of mosquitoes. (Now if somebody does one on giant black flies, they'd make a nice matched set to leave in our guest room..) I bought this from a local video store which is cleaning out its tapes as it switches to DVD. I thought it would be a conversation piece. It is!

This is a film for people who, like me, have seen the art in really poor film-making. Some films really do make an art form of the tacky storyline and cheesy script....this is a classic of the genre. It is full of humorous references for the true horror junkie and doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. A film like this could go two ways...it could either try to take itself seriously and unless masterfully achieved it'll fall flat on its face, or it can step back and take a good, long, honest look at what its really got going for it and try to pull it off with its tongue firmly in its cheek. With a little more audacity some of the deaths could have achieved cult status (one certainly springs to mind)...but hey, with such a vast array of acting talent (Gunnar Hansen of Texas Chainsaw fame being the shining light, and Steve Dixon as Parks also doing an admirable job) and plenty of hillbilly gags, the obligatory pervert-*-hero this is a must watch for the truly awful film fan...if you liked this watch mutator; awful film, great deaths.

This movie borders being terrible. It is so close to being lame it is funny. Slimy, gory, and crude. Dialogue is about as bad as the acting. A spacecraft crashes in a swamp in a National Park and the area is invaded by mosquitoes as big as a Great Dane. Special effects vary in degrees of believability. But then again we are talking giant mosquitoes. View it as a bloody comedy and you won't be too disappointed. Two of the writers(Gunnar Hansen and Steve Hodge)are cast members. Also taking credit as actors are: Ron Asheton, Steve Dixon, Rachel Loiselle and John Reneaud. Very small children might actually be frightened, so don't spoil it for them by laughing out loud.

Boring "horror"/sci-fi trash. I would expect this to be on an episode of MST3K soon. Most of the main people in the movie have never even been in anything else! Did they just hire people off the street?? It sure looks like it. 2/10 Highlight: guy at the end is inside a house that erupts into a big giant fireball and survives unscratched ... by hiding inside a bathtub!! Hahaha