Insecticidal (2005)

A lot of fun.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Cami is a dedicated student of entomology that is researching insects in her sorority house. When her sorority sister Josi sprays insecticide on her bugs, Cami becomes upset. But soon she learns that the insects had grown bigger and bigger and she and her sisters are under siege by the insects. Further, Josi is the host of the breed of mutant insects that are very hungry.The premise makes no sense. Why when you kill an insect do all the insects get big? Whatever. The movie looks like a Sci Fi channel film -- complete with bad CGI, except there's also sex and nudity thrown in. Including an idiotic shower scene where a girl is having the most erotic plain shower.They also threw in a bare chested long haired guy in the beginning who looks like he's a wrestler or something. The problem is he's supposed to be dating a college girl and he looks 45. The women all look 30The acting is horrendous. And the sex scenes are absolutely horrible. The special effects are so bad.The only saving grace is it sort of doesn't take itself too seriously, but that's good for about 5 seconds cuz this is a bad bad film.

This was Jeffery Scott Lando first attempt to direct a flick. Well, he already made his name by making a turkey. Let me clear it out for you, the story is as simple as it can be but it's the use of CGI that makes it a turkey. Even the attacks by the bugs are off-screen, so you only see some puss flying around or hitting the actors. And let me go in on the acting, it's lesser than mediocre by some. The girl (Rhonda Dent) changing into a so-called bug is exaggerating in her acting. Just watch when she's eating a human corpse. If it was to be a comedy I would go buy that kind of acting but here, sorry, no can do. The best part was in fact the main lead Cami (Meghan Heffern), she did well as the nerdy girl and look, she went on to do The Fog and Chloe. The rest all disappeared into bad flicks or stopped acting.But I guess they all knew that it wasn't what it was to be so there is a shower scene were we have gratuitous nudity full shaved frontal. Further we have some kinky chick getting into SM but naturally they all got attacked by the bugs. Maybe the best ones were the slugs, if they all could have looked like them then it could have been great. But the SyFy look of the bugs teared this flick really into a turkey. There's almost no blood in it and if it does it isn't scary or gory on any part. One to see with your friends and having big fun with the stupidity of the blonds, the nudity and the over-sized bugs of Samantha McLeod.Gore 0/5 Nudity 3/5 Effects 0/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 1/5

Well, you're only going to watch a movie like this to laugh at how stupid it is, so my review is aimed at the folks who already have that attitude. Knowing ahead of time that it is campy trash, this movie is still a waste of time. Giant bugs attacking a sorority house sounds like a no-brainer for fans of b-movie junk. Except this one wasn't even entertaining on an unintentionally humorous level. It was just boring.A brainy coed named Cammi accidentally enlarges several bugs to the size of houses. The bugs try to kill everyone in the house. The stereotypes that pass for characters have to fight back.I'm hesitant to complain at how bad the special effects are, since it doesn't make much difference when a movie is this lame. Bottom Line: it looked like it was a sure thing. I didn't like it at all.SIDE NOTE: It's surprising how many giant monster movies just aren't that much fun. You'd think all the filmmakers would have to do is make a few miniature sets and let the destruction happen. I guess it's harder than that, because along with this movie, the monsters have been disappointing in a number of recent cheese-fests (I was disappointed with Kraa the Sea Monster, Godzilla:Final Wars, and Mega-Shark Vs. Giant Octopus. In the case of Mega-Shark, I enjoyed the movie, they just didn't show much of the monsters).

I never watched it, I want to watch it but I doubt I'll ever come across it.But I can hear you now, you never watched it why are you commenting on it? Simple I don't have to watch it to know exactly what kind of movie it is. A cheep, badly made, most likely poorly acted, direct to DVD horror/trying to be scary film. And guess what a good 80% of those kind of movies suck, a lot. Some can be good, most no so with that being said if you go and watch this movie and then get mad that such a poorly made movie was ever created and that you watched it all I can ask is WHY did you watch it? Did it trick you? Did you think, woah the last few I watched looked really bad maybe this one is different? Did you say wow a low budget movie that will be about monster bugs killing people i bet it looks really cool? You had to know going in this movie would be craptastic so you should have watched it for one reason and one reason only You enjoy bad movies If you don't, do not watch them.It's simple really. It astounds me how often i go through the IMDb pages of crappy horror movies and see people complain did you really pick outthe movie and expect something good...really? I happen to like crappy horror movies, its a guilty pleasure of mine. I find the terrible acting to be funny, the lines can't be worse then the one liners and CSI:Miami and I love that show too, the bad sets? terrible CGI? Its all for giggles for me I adore SCI Fi channel movie marathons because its cheese plain and simple. Cheezy fun, learn to enjoy it or learn to realize when you pick up a movie or flip to one that 'hey this is one of those cheep badly made movies i hate i shouldn't watch it' because if you do sit there and watch it and you knew it was a mad movie or you assumed it was bad and then become outraged that it WAS those things don't bother posting on here or any other site about it whats the point? You knowingly wasted time, don't waste more of it Thats why Im giving this movie a ten. I love crap horror, and I'll always love it and I bet if I watched this movie I would adore all its failures because that's what movies like this are made for Cheep Popcorn Enjoyment.