Bug!

 

BUG-1975-In a small town an earthquake unleashes cockroach like bugs that can start fires. A bug doc James Parmiter (Bradford Dillman) and student Gerald Methbaum (Richard Gilliland) investigate.They get help from a chemist Mark Ross (Alan Fudge). Most of the invaders die from air pressure but Parmiter keeps one specimen alive. When she wife (Joanna Miles) is killed she goes a little crazy and breeds the remaining bug with everyday roaches and creates a fast breeding bunch of intelligent flying roaches (worse than before). They kill Ross' wife (Patty McCormack) and terrorize Parmiter and set him on fire. He falls into a fissure and the flying bugs seem to follow him. Also with Jesse Vint and Frederic Brown. 

BUG's screenplay was co-written by the legendary William Castle (who also produced) and Thomas Page who wrote the novel the movie is based on. French born director Jeannot Szwarc mostly worked on TV series (NIGHT GALLERY; KOJAK) and made for TV movies. BUG was a rare theatrical release but in the early '80's he made several high profile feature films (JAWS 2; SOMEWHERE IN TIME; SUPERGIRL; SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE). BUG is genuinely creepy and the story is a little more unusual than most.

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Canadian Blood

BLOODWORX-2012-Two college dorks volunteer for an experimental drug test (RXZ-19) to make some money. It's obvious from the other “patients” lead by obnoxious English guy Nigel that things aren't what they seem. After “dose one” they start to hallucinate and act weird. One guy has sex with a woman while cockroaches crawl on them. The doctor who heads the project explains that in actuality the experiments involve organ regeneration and he has a roomful of deranged animals to prove it! Everyone gets loonier and loonier as the doses increase. The experiment descends into madness with most of the patients becoming cannibal killers craving the drug. The real head of the project (Eric Roberts) shows up trying to cover the whole thing up. One guy escapes but goes back for his friend and the whole place blows up. The two friends escape but don't get away. 

This Canadian-American co-production is also known as BLOODWORK or THE LAST EXPERIMENT. Director Eric Wostenberg was a producer of the TV show “Ax Men”.

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It's Back!

MIMIC 2-2001-I don't think this useless sequel ever played in the theaters. Alix Koromzay reprises her role as the bug loving scientist named Remy from the original feature (Mira Sorvino was the star). It seems the "Judas bug" that was created to destroy the original killer cockroaches in the first movie have now mutated into giant insects that like to rip off faces. A weird detective (Bruno Campos, who needs acting lessons) at first suspects Remy of some bug murders even though it's obviously impossible. Things don't get any better when Edward Albert shows up as a government agent trying to destroy the monsters. The movie seems to end three times before dismal conclusion. Jon Polito has a small role as a landlord victim.

It tries to replicate the creepiness of the original but director Jean de Segonzac (who once directed a TV bio about Dennis Rodman) can do the job.

Exorsnore

EXORCISMUS-2010-In England Emma (Sophie Vavasseur from RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE), a teenage girl acts weirdly. She cuts herself, almost drowns her little brother and levitates in front of her mom and dad. When she goes to a psychiatrist he dies of a heart attack. She seems to be possessed so they bring in their uncle, a priest (Stephen Billington; also in RESIDENT EVIL) to perform an exorcism. He's haunted by flashbacks of botched one he once did. While tied to a chair she curses a lot (“fuckin' priest”), has spasms, her eyes turn white and she tries to strangle dad (with her legs). Her pin cushioned faced boyfriend tells her she's just being manipulated but she causes a car crash that nearly kills him (she sees his face covered with cockroaches). 

Later after killing her brother and driving mom crazy, she learns that things might not be what they seem. Despite it's twists in the finale (which goes on too long) this is just another EXORCIST take-off. This English language Spanish production filmed in England was directed by Manuel Carballo and written by David Munoz (THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE). 

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