Creepy Crawly Number 8 - The Insect (as big as a Man!)
Mimic
- * The creepy crawly up for show; in New York, a
debilitating disease is affecting children, carried by the city’s most hated
residents – it’s cockroaches! A team of scientists
devise a way to stop the outbreak and save the potential millions of young
lives at risk. By modifying the genes of an insect, they are release into the
sewer and the lab creations get straight to work, secreting a substances, which
draws the roaches in and kills them instantly. Within six months, almost every cockroach
in the city is obliterated and the scientific bugs die within months, and there
are no more sick kids. Happy ending right? Wrong!
* How they are portrayed in this film; three years later, a series of deaths
take place in a rough New York
neighbourhood. The evidence left behind suggests insects were in the vicinity.
Meanwhile, our smart scientists who stopped the plague, are continuing their
research into the city’s bug life, and are surprised when two street kids bring
them a large insect they found in the subway. It turns out to be one of the
man-made insects from three years ago. But, they were meant to die out. Turns
out, they survived, and not only have they evolved and reproduced, they’re
bigger!
* The humans who try to squash them; once our scientists discover what’s going on, they descend into the subways and sewers, and discover a whole world of hybrid bugs which have found a way to mimic their prey – humans. The doctors must pull out all the stops to stop the colony from getting loose and wreaking havoc around the world.
* The grossest moment; the special effects in this film were good, considering it was the mid-nineties. Under the directorial duties of one Mr. Guillermo Del Toro, who wasn’t the well known name he is today, the film uses its modest budget smartly, emphasising darkness, shadows, slimy stuff and flutters of large wings and legs in the corner, to build up its monsters presence. Mimic is indeed, gory and bloody in many scenes, and the grossest reveal in my opinion, is when two of the characters discover one of the giant bugs off the subway tracks, which appears like a man from a distance, but as they get closer, they see a grotesque face, bloody and drooling, as it holds its latest meal – an innocent dog that wondered into the wrong place.
If you hate bugs and insects of any kind, steer away from Mimic.
But if you’re looking for a short but still intelligent horror caper, with an
interesting idea about the dangers of man meddling with nature, then Mimic will
be right up your alley.
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