Mosquito (1995)

Derek and Kristen head out camping for the weekend, but forget their bug spray while watching Mosquito

Transcript

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I'm getting ready to watch a video.

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Really?

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Just a scary movie. Uh-huh.

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What's your favorite scary movie?

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Uh, I don't know.

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You have to have a favorite for what comes to mind. Hello, and welcome to the Silver Screens podcast. My name is Charles.

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Hi! Hi, Chucky!

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So glad you could make it. The hosts are expecting you. Brightest way to the dungeon. Please watch your step and try not to trip over the corps. You'll be joining the terrifying trio for tonight's talk. Make yourselves comfortable on the couch. Right over there. And they'll be with you shortly. Oh. And one last thing.

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Whatever you do.

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It's no doubt.

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Screen team! How are you guys doing? Welcome to another episode of the Silver Screams Podcast, a podcast where two horror movie buffs watch scary movies and then talk about them. I am your host, Derek Schneider, and I am pleased, as always, to be joined by my wonderful co-host, Kristen Marlowe. What up? Kristen, how you doing today?

SPEAKER_03 1:50

You know, I was alright until I watched this movie.

SPEAKER_05 1:55

Uh kid. Yeah, yeah. It's a nice day outside. You kid, like, you kid about kidding because look, anybody who's seen this film will know how you feel how you were gonna feel about it.

SPEAKER_03 2:06

If you saw a poster for this film, you know I'd feel that.

SPEAKER_05 2:09

Alright, on. Well, I wanted to start today's episode off with a little bit of education. Uh, as we are approaching the summer months here in the Pacific Northwest, we will begin to see a rise in our giant mosquito population, so I thought I'd share some facts to help inform our listeners about them. Uh, did you know that giant mosquitoes will only lay their eggs around the closest meteor or UFO crash site? Uh, did you also know that while bullets are a perfectly acceptable repellent, the best method is straight up fire? I did not know. Uh, and then finally, lastly, did you know that most giant mosquitoes are able to chase down a speeding vehicle with ease? Nope. Well, consider yourself more informed. And if you really want to know even more about giant mosquitoes, boy, are you listening to the right episode? Because that's the movie that we are going to be covering today. Uh, Kristen, I can see your antenna twitching in disgust as we were ready to talk about this movie, but without giving too much away, can we get the Kristen Marlowe temp check on this one before we dive deeper with our educational proboscis or proboscis, whichever one it is? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 3:08

Uh whatever the temperature of blood is.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

Oh, that's good. It's only a 98.6.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

Yeah, except that makes it sound good, but it's suck butts. Literally.

SPEAKER_05 3:18

Literally. That's about what I thought. Well, let's not waste any more time, but before we press on, we should warn you that while the giant mosquitoes might seem like the biggest threat out here, you'd be mistaken because it's actually the spoilers that are about to come swooping down out of the sky. So if you haven't seen Mosquito yet, go check it out and then come back here and listen to this episode. And be sure to stick around because after this quick break, we're gonna kick off this episode with D's D's. So don't go away, Scream Team. We will be right back.

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And we're back.

SPEAKER_03 3:51

Derek said that uh earlier before that little break that we needed to uh you guys should go watch it. Don't. That's my recommendation. I mean, I mean you can.

SPEAKER_05 4:03

No, I think people should should watch this like so they understand what we're talking about. Uh and you know, like part of part of it is like I, you know, like I said, I hadn't watched this like since I was a kid. So there was only one scene that I really remembered out of it out of this entire movie. Uh, but going back and watching it now, I can see why this film has such a cult following, and there's like other factors that go into it. Uh, and I'm actually going to cover some of those in in our next segment here. Dee's deets. Did it so the film that we are covering today is Mosquito. Rated R, released in 1994 in Japan, uh, didn't actually get released until May 20th, 1995, here in the US. So it just celebrated its 30th anniversary. Great. And it wasn't even it wasn't even a theatrical release, too. It went straight to straight to VHS.

SPEAKER_03 4:54

I'm shocked.

SPEAKER_05 4:56

And another thing that we will cover here in uh in the reasoning here, uh, directed by Gary Jones, which was actually his directing debut, uh, had a runtime of 92 minutes, so Max would love that. Yeah. Um IMDB Synopsis is a violent massacre caused by human-sized mosquitoes, forces the lone survivors to band together in a fight for survival as the mosquitoes continue their onslaught. Uh IMDB and Rotten Tomato Ratings, I am IMDB came in at a 4.9 out of 10. Uh the tomato meter, uh, the critic one was much higher because it only had five critic reviews. Uh, but the I think the popcorn one was like 39% for this one. Uh starring Tim Loveless as Ray, Megan's boyfriend. Uh, and these are actually how they are credited in the film, too. Uh also shocked. Rachel Loisell as Megan the New Park Ranger, Steve Dixon as Parks, the USAF Meteor Chaser, Ron Ashton as Hendrix the Park Ranger, and Gunnar Hansen as Earl the Bank Robber, uh, better known for his performance as playing Leatherface in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Uh all right, and your favorite part. Do you care to take uh I would I would love for you to play this because I really want to know like what you think about this one. Uh guess the budget for this for this film.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

I don't know. It's probably higher than it should be. Um I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how that works.

SPEAKER_05 6:24

It's I will I will tell you it's a smaller budget film.

SPEAKER_03 6:28

I'm gonna say nine million. Nine mil.$200,000.

SPEAKER_05 6:33

And this this actually this this actually shocked me. Uh the and there's no actual like opening box office or worldwide gross because, like I said, this film never had a theatrical release, and that's due to the um the company that bought the distribution rates uh went bankrupt shortly after doing so. So this project got shelved, and it wasn't until like a year later that they were actually able to like get any kind of somebody was able to pick it up for release and released it like directly to VHS. Uh some other fun facts the most expensive shot in the film was actually stock footage of a mosquito being born in the opening scene. That footage cost fifteen hundred dollars.

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God.

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Yeah. Uh the film had a bit of an identity crisis leading up to its release. It was originally named Skeeters, but they learned that a film had recently been produced under that name and a similar concept. So they changed the title to Blood Fever. And then during post-production, the film was renamed Night Swarm, which is how it appeared in uh Fangoria issues leading up to the release. Before its title was finally changed to Mosquito. And director Gary Jones had originally planned for a much bigger uh for some much bigger ideas with the original screenplay, which had to be scrapped when the budget was severely slashed. Some of the ideas and scenes included an opening bank heist gone wrong shootout, uh the mosquito horde attacking Detroit and a military base, and the corpses of those who had been killed by the bugs would be reanimated back to life as flesh-eating zombies. Uh the last idea was scrapped because mostly because the filmmakers felt it distracted too much from the mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

Fair.

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And then this one kind of surprised me that Gunnar Hansen would later go on to say that Mosquito was his favorite film that he acted in, and that Earl was the best character that he ever played. The slow bl the slow blank. I mean words.

SPEAKER_03 8:20

That's I'm just staring at Derek right now. This this is what was on my BB.

SPEAKER_05 8:25

Like I I saw it on there, and it was that was interesting to me if if big if true. Yeah, that'd be a good one.

SPEAKER_02 8:32

Interesting if true. That would be very interesting.

SPEAKER_05 8:35

Alrighty. Well, I am sure this uh this segment for you is gonna be a really, really short one. Uh let's talk about this, let's talk about this movie. Some stuff that's uh maybe we found entertaining. Was there did you find did you did you have any scenes? Was there any scene out of these ninety ninety-two minutes?

SPEAKER_03 8:55

Yeah, I mean, there's there's one scene where they're in the tent and the and Dude Bro goes out of the tent.

SPEAKER_05 9:04

Okay, so you and I are gonna pick the same thing. To go to the back same one.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

And then she's still in the tent. Yeah. And uh they had been having sex, clearly.

SPEAKER_05 9:15

Like we both picked the same scene here to talk about, but uh so I guess like leading up to this, like we'll give a little bit of a a background on what's happening in this movie.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Nobody cares. There's a stupid space scene in the opening.

SPEAKER_05 9:30

There, yeah, there's like meteor crashes. A spaceship crashes onto Earth and a mosquito hatches, the$1,500 mosquito hatching scene. Bites the alien finger. Yep, the alien lands or the mosquito lands on the alien and sucks its blood, uh, and then lays alien mosquito eggs, which then turn into giant mosquitoes. Yeah. Uh, one of these giant mosquitoes. Like, really this is one of the things that I did love is like how quickly we got to the big bugs in this movie. Because like right after that scene, we get where we've got Meg and her boyfriend uh driving down the road in their very and one comes flying out and right in front of their car and hits it and punctures the radiator with its proboscis, gives him car trouble, and uh yeah, so like right out of the gate we see we see one of these big bugs. We're we're not waiting. Uh we're jumping right into the action, and uh these bugs then begin to attack other people, we start to see them more, they kill more people. Uh, and this scene that we're gonna talk about is like right as it starts really ramping up before the big this is like right before the big assault on the on the whole campground. Um because there's like it's like a summer camp basically, it's like a big campground.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

That's how I would describe it.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

Yeah. So leading up to this, the giant mosquitoes have started to multiply and completely overrun the campground, having already attacked and killed multiple people, including Ranger Tony and Fisherman Jack out on the lake.

SPEAKER_03 11:00

Uh and Yeah, that scene's stupid too. We were talking about scenes that I think are stupid, I would have talked about that one. Well, we'll talk about those like after this part.

SPEAKER_05 11:10

Uh but the scene that we're talking about now, so the the tent scene. This was the scene that I last week uh.

SPEAKER_03 11:17

Yeah, that you alluded to. You said you thought it started with this scene.

SPEAKER_05 11:19

I like be like I said, I was a kid when I saw this movie and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

I saw the spaceship and I was like, this is not what we talked about.

SPEAKER_05 11:26

No, it wasn't. And like I watched it too, and I was like, oh, okay, so yeah, it didn't start like that. And yeah, I was a kid. I had to have been like seven or eight when I when I watched this at a friend's house. And like his his dad put this on for us, like just hanging out. Yeah. Sometimes. Yep, sometimes it's like that. And uh yeah, this was like this scene was what stuck out to me. Gee, I wonder why an eight-year-old boy like sees a butt.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

Yeah. Uh you see some partial titty. It gets a like a bare a barely a titty tally.

SPEAKER_05 11:59

Yeah, so in this scene we get a mosquito buzzing into a campsite where Camper Steve and Camper Mary have just finished fucking each other's brains out, and Camper Steve gets out of the tent and cracks a beer before wandering off to water the plants, as he says. Uh the mosquito takes this opportunity to skitter over to the tent, opening and using his antenna to feel up Camper Mary's legs. She initially thinks it's Camper Steve being playful before turning over and seeing the giant insect halfway into the tent. She starts screaming and turns over to try and crawl away, but isn't fast enough as the mosquito unsheaths its proboscis and stabs square in the butt cheek while Camper Steve tries to rush back only to be swarmed by another mosquito himself.

SPEAKER_03 12:36

Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:41

Now you know. Uh so what so what made this like your your favorite scene? Was it just the just the stab in the bottom?

SPEAKER_03 12:47

I don't say favorite. If I had to choose a scene I didn't hate as much as the episode.

SPEAKER_05 12:52

Okay, what made this scene the one that you hated the least?

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Uh I just think it was stupid. I think the whole sex scene was really dumb. It was so dumb it was like comical in a in an enjoyable way. Yeah. Uh it's just like we have that early 90s term too. Oh yeah. It's like this over-aggressive, overly aggressive sex grunting, and he's like throwing. Like, I don't know. This whole thing is is so silly. And then um, yeah, I mean, like you get this like little antenna like touching her leg and just this jabbing her fucking butt cheek. It's so stupid. It's so stupid, but by far the most entertaining.

SPEAKER_05 13:33

Uh so I picked this scene because this was, like I said, this was the one scene that I remember when I watched as a kid. It's in the middle of the movie, but I guess my seven-year-old brain latched onto this one because there was a butt in it. Uh seeing it again, I do like this scene for the cheesy dialogue and the creative kill. Uh, in the world of cooking, they say that fat is flavor, and I couldn't think of a better spot the mosquito could have picked to get the most flavor out of this meal.

SPEAKER_03 13:58

Yeah. That's fair.

SPEAKER_05 14:01

Was there any other any other scene that like second least? No. No, I hate everything. I hate everything about this movie.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

I really do. The stupid mosquito in the water. I was like, man, don't make this mosquito swim. He wasn't.

SPEAKER_05 14:18

He was like just hovering above the water. Yeah. I think if I had to pick a second one, it would probably be that scene. Really? The boat? The boat scene. Garbage. I'll get into it more later, but like for a different part of this uh of our discussion here. Yeah, there wasn't uh there wasn't much else. So I guess like I didn't like anything else. Just that butt stab. So the butt yeah, the butt stab was like, you know, if I had to pick a favorite, just because it's sort of like you were saying, it kind of like is just that super cheesy, like mid-90s feel to it.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

It definitely does.

SPEAKER_05 14:59

Um yeah, like for and it's kind of funny when I watch this because there while this film does have like lots of issues, uh it's a$200,000 film. But I think like the movie's really campy and cheesy, which is why it has developed such a cold following in the horror community. Uh, but really that's part of what like blew my mind after watching it and doing the prep work for this episode was finding out that it was filmed on a$200,000 budget. Uh I think that like for that it's kind of amazing the practical bugs they were able to make and the other effects they were able to pull off.

SPEAKER_03 15:38

And I agree with that statement.

SPEAKER_05 15:40

That's an impressive feat. So my hat goes off to them, and I love the shots, like actually the shots of the mosquitoes like flying through the woods when you had like the big bugs, like they were on this, and I think they called it the Doom Boom is like the rig that they set up to make the bugs look like they were flying through the woods and everything. Yeah, the crew dubbed it the doom boom. It is when you're working on a film like that, you gotta you gotta make it enjoyable for yourself. Um but like like I said, there were there were other parts, like the writing's probably my biggest nitpick with this one. That's so bad. It's not well written. Uh, but it does the silver lining of it, it does make for some like unintentionally funny moments and interactions, so it's not an entirely lost cause. Like I think the one the one that really stuck out to me one of the quotes was they were talking they were like trying to theorize like how these like things could have come to be, or like that there could be other like mutated creatures because because of the like meteor crash. So like there could be there could be giant frogs and giant fish like with extra eyes that we haven't seen yet, and his boyfriend is like, don't be ridiculous. We're not some in s in some sci-fi world while they're being chased by giant mosquitoes. Yeah, dude. I think I was dumb. Uh so dislikes, dislikes for you, like let's start well let's let you send this movie through the shredder here.

SPEAKER_03 17:07

No, I don't even this it's the way I feel about this was I really was gonna text you and be like, bro, I'm not gonna watch more than this. Five minutes. I've started it. I don't want to. I'm done. Uh I did. I did manage to get through the entire film. Um I don't uh there's not even it I don't even want to waste my time sending it through the shredder. It's just it's just not good. It's not good acting. It's not a good story. I don't think I think it's it's very cheesy. Yeah. Um I am impressed that it was made with$200,000. I do find that very surprising and impressive.

SPEAKER_05 17:44

Um seeing like hearing about the the stuff that was cut because of a slashed budget, I really would like to know like what their original budget was supposed to be that they like had planned for all these extra things, like the sh the robbery shootout, which would have made more sense for those uh three characters, the Earl character and his two. I don't yeah. Um I think all that combined like together, like they they sort of chose to make the mosquitoes the central focus, which makes sense. Yeah. Uh I that probably would have pulled away, although you would have gotten a little more context of who these characters were rather than when you first see them. They're just like three like dudes rolling up in a like Cadillac coming out and wearing all camo pants and shirts and everything, and just looking like the biggest rednecks possible, uh getting chased by mosquitoes right out of the gate, and like these guys are like the three dumbest.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

They're so dumb.

SPEAKER_05 18:47

And you don't but you don't know who they are. There's no context for who they are. Like you hear something like that.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

You don't have any desire to know who they are, though. Yeah. Truthfully.

SPEAKER_05 18:56

Yeah, yeah, they're very expendable, like in a horror in this kind of horror movie.

SPEAKER_03 19:00

So the whole like end scene is it was so painful to watch, honestly. Uh, with just like the guy goes downstairs, they're they made the bomb, like I'm talking like at the very end of this movie.

SPEAKER_05 19:12

Yeah, they make the they're trapped in this house. They like run to this house and the mosquitoes swarm uh the entire house and they cover, they cover basically cover the entire house, and they're like boarded up. This is like their last stand.

SPEAKER_03 19:26

And then they find all the fucking eggs in the basement.

SPEAKER_05 19:29

Yeah, this is this is where near where the UFO crashed. So all these like mutant mosquito eggs are have been laid in this basement and their plan is to like rupture the gas lines in the house.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

Yeah, the meteorologist is like, I'm gonna build this little like bomb thing. Yeah, it's gonna go off in three minutes.

SPEAKER_05 19:47

Yeah. And he attaches a candle to it so that like three minutes later that all the gas will reach that that device and blow up the house.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

Yeah, and they're like sending people up this little It's a dumbwaiter. Dumbwaiter, and it's like painfully slow to the roof. To the roof.

SPEAKER_05 20:03

So their plan is to get to the roof and jump off before the explosion happens.

SPEAKER_03 20:08

And then like the dumb waiter breaks when one dude's in there, and then he, I don't know, goes on to die, I guess. Uh but that whole scene scene of him like falling in the dumb waiter was so it was like it was floors and floors and floors, and it was not it was so bad. It was like one floor, it was so bad. Uh and then you get this big like chainsaw scene with Earl down there.

SPEAKER_05 20:33

Earl goes down there with a chainsaw. He he uses the chainsaw like that's actually kind of a like knowing that now uh that you know it was Gunner Hansen, like the he chooses the chainsaw as his weapon in the house.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

Well, yes, knowing that is a yeah, that's that's a helpful piece to liking a little more.

SPEAKER_05 20:50

So yeah, he he has the chainsaw like earlier in that house, the final stand in the house, uh, to chop up some of the mosquitoes, and then he grabs it again for this, like he has this change of character heart where he decides that he's gonna go down and rescue this this park ranger that went down the dumb waiter and like fell to the basement floor. He's like, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go get your friend, and takes the chainsaw, goes down there and starts getting swarmed by these hatching mosquitoes, and loses his grip and throws it against the wall, which sparks and causes the gas to ignite and blow up. But uh our the meteorologist. Yeah, he gets in the refrigerator. There's a refrigerator that's down on that floor that they were on, and so he jumps in there right before the explosion happens and survives.

SPEAKER_03 21:43

Yeah. And the other two get away because they got up to the roof and they jumped. Yep. And that was it.

SPEAKER_05 21:48

And that was that was how the movie ends.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

Yeah, that's exactly. And you don't even know. You don't even know if all the mosquitoes are dead or I guess you kind of do.

SPEAKER_05 22:00

Just because they go back in to find parks or they like hear you don't know. Yeah, they hear somebody pushing on the door of the bridge, but you don't, yeah. How how would you know? You don't know.

SPEAKER_03 22:11

You don't. I think one's out there still right now. Maybe.

SPEAKER_05 22:14

Maybe there's a mist there's a uh mosquito sequel to be to be written out there. Don't make that. Alright, Kristen. Well, should we get to get to your actual favorite part of this?

SPEAKER_03 22:24

No, it's so yes, get to it. And then I'll talk about it. Alright, listen. This movie was so painful for me to get through that I didn't even take a proper kill count, so I just looked it up online. Uh, which you know I hate because some of these people, we don't even know if they actually died, but they're included in this kill count.

SPEAKER_05 22:48

We don't see them get killed on screen, which is your usual criteria for for the kill count.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Yeah. Um we we definitely see Junior die. He gets his blood drain and his eye popped out, which actually was a pretty cool one. Uh we get Camper Steve, Camper Mary, Fisherman Jack, the other guy who doesn't get a name, just Fisherman. And that's it. That's who we see die.

SPEAKER_05 23:14

Wasn't Fisherman Jack the one that gets the eyeball?

SPEAKER_03 23:18

This says that Junior was the one who got his blood drain and his eye popped out. I didn't say his eyeball.

SPEAKER_05 23:25

Oh no, his uh so Junior was the one at the end where uh where we actually like watch his face like as he's getting and his eyeballs actually do bug out. So I think Fisherman Jack was the one in the boat.

SPEAKER_03 23:39

That gets stabbed at through the eye. Yeah. Um okay, cool. So let's just do those ones. Uh which one's your favorite?

SPEAKER_05 23:47

All right.

SPEAKER_03 23:47

Which one do you like?

SPEAKER_05 23:48

My favorite kill, while you may think it would be the butt suck scene, is actually not. Uh so my pick for best kill is actually gonna be the scene on the lake where one of the mosquitoes lands in the boat and tackles Fisherman Jack to the floor before stabbing its proboscis into his eye and draining his body. Which we then get to see a quick glimpse of later when Megan's looking over the edge of a bridge into the river.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Yeah. Uh I also am not gonna choose Camper Mary. You know? I could choose Camper Mary, but I'm not going to. Uh I think it would suck. Probably the worst would be I'm gonna go with Earl and the explosion. I just think that's a really shitty way to go.

SPEAKER_05 24:29

You're trying to have a big hero moment and then you lose the grip of the chainsaw.

SPEAKER_03 24:32

You lose a grip on your chainsaw. I just yeah, it's real stupid. It's just like a dumb move.

SPEAKER_05 24:38

I just think that would really blow. Junior would be my close second because it was such a goofy like kill too. Like as he's getting the his blood sucked out, like you see his face and it's this like hollowed out face. Uh, and then yeah, the eyes bold bulge out like on their like stalks. And so it's it's so goofy looking, it's very cartoonish, but yeah, so second place kill for me would be.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

Nah, I'd give I'd give it to the butt suck. Yeah. Definitely. Buttsuck would be my second place. I'd love that we're just calling it butt suck.

SPEAKER_05 25:14

Yep. All right. For the new people in the room, after we talk about these films, we gotta give them a rating. And on this podcast, we use the scream scale. For the uninitiated, the scream scale is a scientifically perfected system where we award the films that we watch a number of screams from one to ten. So without further ado, Kristen, how many screams are you giving Mosquito?

SPEAKER_03 25:33

You know, when we started doing this podcast, I didn't know how many shitty movies we were gonna see, so I gave a lot of movies that were probably better than some of the shittier stuff we had seen later on into the episodes of this this bottom. Yeah. Um but this movie was not good. But it's not a one.

SPEAKER_05 25:52

To be fair, we are picking these movies to watch. So like it we only have ourselves to blame here. You to blame, you pick this.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

I said no. You all heard it in last week's episode. Yeah. I said no, I'm gonna hate it. It's gonna suck. It did suck.

SPEAKER_05 26:06

I did know you were going to hate this one, but it was okay. It was on theme.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

Um but it's not like it's not it's not a one scream. It's a t it's a two scream. Okay. It's not the worst ever, but it's pretty fucking bad.

SPEAKER_05 26:20

You get the baseline one because we do have a titty tally.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Yeah, boom. Titty tally.

SPEAKER_05 26:25

So it gets the baseline one.

SPEAKER_03 26:26

Yeah, and then and then one for being something.

SPEAKER_05 26:31

For being a movie that was made.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Yep. I'm giving that one extra scream purely based on that they managed to spend$200,000 to make that. So two screams. Two screams.

SPEAKER_05 26:43

Very nice. Uh I was originally gonna give this one a pretty low grade on the scream scale too. Uh it has a little bit of a nostalgia factor for me from what little I remember about it as a kid. But the rewatch didn't quite hold up as well as I had hoped. Uh not like last week's Tremors. Not like last week's Tremors, no. Uh, all that being said, though, finding out that they were able to pull off something like some pretty cool practical giant bugs and other great practical effects on a$200,000 budget. I gotta give them a bump in that rating. Uh and really thinking about it, like watching this, it's kind of what you ex want or expect from a giant killer bug movie. Like you were saying, you knew you were gonna hate this movie like from the get-go, because you knew what kind of movie to expect when I described it to you. So uh, you know, seeing that kind of movie that could easily have come out of the sci-fi channel movie machine when they were cranking out all their like super cheesy like monster movies and everything. Uh for that I'm gonna give this one five screams.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

Wow. Generous.

SPEAKER_05 27:47

Alright. Well, if you guys follow us on any of our social media platforms, you know that we've now condensed our film selections down to once at the end of each month so that we can give you guys a better idea of what's coming up so that we can do a little more prep and research to make each show as good as it possibly can be. And if you want to know what other films are coming down the line to chime in about them, ask us a question or anything else, let us know on Instagram at Scream Team Pod is the name over there. Lastly, we love you all so much and appreciate the support view that we've had so far, but we want to keep growing, and the best way for us to do that is having you guys subscribe to the show, rate it, and share it with your friends. For a small show like ours, word of mouth is the best kind of advertising we can have because it means that you're enjoying what we do so much that you have to tell the people in your life that they should be enjoying it too. Hashtag spread the screams. Alright, Kristen, I want to thank you again for being such an awesome co-host and suffering through this movie for for the good of the pod. I did suffer. I want to thank the Scream team also for listening and supporting the show and joining us on another episode of the Silver Screams podcast. Uh, remember uh that I want you to go out there and lay down a fog cover around the entire perimeter of your campsite tonight, stealing your steal yourselves in tight until reinforcements can arrive in the morning. Uh now let's get busy and make this world a safe place for Americans, shall we? Once again, I'm Derek. I'm Chris, and we'll catch you next time. Stay spicy, scream too.