Mosquito (Film Review)
1994 Herndale Communications, Inc.
Directed by: Gary Jones; Written by: Tom Chaney, Steve Hodge, and Gary Jones
Starring: Gunnar Hansen, Ron Asheton, Steve Dixon, and Josh Becker
MPAA Rating: R; Running Time: 93 Minutes
The Nicsperiment Score: 4/10
An alien spaceship crashes into the Earth! A mosquito sucks the pilot's blood! The mosquito mutates into a flying bloodsucker the size of large cat! He makes a bunch more giant mosquitos, and the giant mosquitos invade a local campground and kill everyone! A young couple makes the mistake of driving through that area right afterward! They form a ragtag group with other local survivors and fight for their lives! This is 1994's Mosquito!
Sometimes you just want to watch something stupid, and holy flying steak knives, Batman, is Mosquito stupid. As an eighth grader when this film was released, I quickly found myself drawn in for the scantily and sometimes unclad ladies in the opening scenes. However, once Mosquito got that out of the way, I found myself sticking around for the bafflingly community theater quality acting and the film's total ridiculousness. There are shots here where it appears the director handed the camera off to a young child, but there are also moments where we get either overhead or POV shots of the just-above community theater-quality looking giant mosquitos that are just as fun as squeezing the flesh under where a mosquito is biting your arm, and watching it explode. Indeed, lots of mosquitos are exploded here, to varying degrees of visual quality.
However, a movie this stupid is extremely hard to hate because it is awesome in its stupidly. Also, how can you hate a film where the guy who played Leatherface dices up giant mosquitos with a chainsaw! Plus, Spielberg totally stole a page from this, having a character survive an immense explosion by hiding in a refrigerator. Plus, the explosion in this movie is actually real and somehow looks better than the "all-that-money-can-buy" CGI mushroom cloud from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 13 years later.
An alien spaceship crashes into the Earth! A mosquito sucks the pilot's blood! The mosquito mutates into a flying bloodsucker the size of large cat! He makes a bunch more giant mosquitos, and the giant mosquitos invade a local campground and kill everyone! A young couple makes the mistake of driving through that area right afterward! They form a ragtag group with other local survivors and fight for their lives! This is 1994's Mosquito!
Sometimes you just want to watch something stupid, and holy flying steak knives, Batman, is Mosquito stupid. As an eighth grader when this film was released, I quickly found myself drawn in for the scantily and sometimes unclad ladies in the opening scenes. However, once Mosquito got that out of the way, I found myself sticking around for the bafflingly community theater quality acting and the film's total ridiculousness. There are shots here where it appears the director handed the camera off to a young child, but there are also moments where we get either overhead or POV shots of the just-above community theater-quality looking giant mosquitos that are just as fun as squeezing the flesh under where a mosquito is biting your arm, and watching it explode. Indeed, lots of mosquitos are exploded here, to varying degrees of visual quality.
However, a movie this stupid is extremely hard to hate because it is awesome in its stupidly. Also, how can you hate a film where the guy who played Leatherface dices up giant mosquitos with a chainsaw! Plus, Spielberg totally stole a page from this, having a character survive an immense explosion by hiding in a refrigerator. Plus, the explosion in this movie is actually real and somehow looks better than the "all-that-money-can-buy" CGI mushroom cloud from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 13 years later.
I'll take Mosquito over
Crystal Skull any day. At least it knows that it is stupid.
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