Writers: Eli Cantor, Robert King
Composer: Rick Conrad
Starring: Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, Terri Treas, Stephen Davies, Diana Bellamy, Jack Collins, Nancy Morgan, Jeff Winkless, Steve Tannen, Heidi Helmer
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Roaches have never tasted flesh... until now. She's just an appetizer.
Plot: A biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
My rating: 4/10
Will I watch it again? No.
Maybe this is one of those movies that, when being made, it seemed like a good idea at the time. This low budget flick looks great in widescreen and there are some good performances but that's about all I can think of that I liked about it. This isn't without some lessor acting. Terri Treas overacts her ass off as Dr. Hubbard. She would've been great if the rest of the film followed her lead and went total camp and ineptitude. But it didn't and this is what we've stuck with. The synthesizer score is your standard low budget fare which hurts. The biggest problem with this flick is that it's too slow. 90 minutes is far too much for this. Almost from the beginning people are dying from these mutated roaches (that make a loud radioactive sizzle sound but only when the characters see them and not before). An hour into this most of the town has been killed and the recently resigned Sheriff Johnson goes to Dr. Hubbard and threatens her to do something about it. Wow, now there's only thirty minutes left for the skeleton crew of a cast to get picked off one by one until we're left with whoever's left. And you pretty much know who's going to snuff it and who's going to survive. I don't mind by-the-numbers scripts, bad acting, adequate special effects and so on because you can still have an enjoyable movie with some or all of those ingredients. This isn't one of them.
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