Monster
Crap Inductee: Mansquito (aka Mosquito Man)
A
Movie Guaranteed To Suck
2005
Well,
we now have an interesting scenario with the last 3 inductions of this month
for TheDeadOne because these 3 are all movies that debuted on the SyFy Channel
back in a time when that channel actually show movies (especially low budget
ones) and didn’t just waste your time with re-runs of old shows and stupid ass
SyFy original shows that no one really watches. It was a better time for me as
in those early days and back when AOL AIM was still a thing, I did several of
these Saturday movie marathon chats which were a lot of fun as we would riff on
these movies for just pure fun.
Someday
I Will Find A DVD Of This Movie And I Will Induct The Glorious Silliness Of
This Film
But
anyway….back to this movie. This film is an interesting one as when I was asked
to do it, it was one that I had heard of (because how could I not have heard of
a SyFy Original Movie called Mansquito), but have never actually seen. I know
this may shock some people, but I have not seen every silly schlocky movie with
a silly name known to mankind.
Yes,
You Can Be Disgusted With Me All Day If That Is What You Wish To Do.
Anyway,
I thankfully was able to get a copy of this film, but sadly not under the
awesome ass Mansquito name because someone who makes the DVDs decided that
Mansquito is a stupid title and instead gave the film the much more generic
title of Mosquito Man. Michelangelo from the last induction, if you would
please.
My
Reaction Exactly
Just
imagine someone taking the interesting title of Frankenfish and just calling it
Frankenstein Fish, taking Sharkenstein and just calling it Shark Frankenstein,
taking Sharknado and calling it Dark Skies (the actual working title for
Sharknado sadly), or calling Santa’s Slay “Very Bad Santa” (what it is called
in a French DVD).
You
might be wondering how a movie like this would exist. Well, this whole idea
(which produced a great era for Made For SyFy movies) came from the then
Manager of Program Acquisition for SyFy Channel Ray Cannella who was getting
tired of having to deal with certain independent producers to get their films
and when they showed up, they weren’t worth the hassle so he and two colleagues
of his decided that they should start producing movies for the channel and
heck, those movies might be better than what they were having to negotiate for.
Ray Canella, while you normally may get ridiculed by critics for that ballsy
decision, we here at Monster Crap salute to as because of this, you have given
us some entertaining material for past and future inductions.
For
this movie, they decided to make a bunch of similarities to The Fly remake in
somehow a man grossly turns into a bug, but instead of dealing with the
emotional turmoil of such a horrifying experience (leave that to the greats),
they’ll instead make it a monster who goes around killing people and ultimately
getting stopped by our main hero. For directing, let’s get Tibor Takacs, the
guy who had a cult classic…
He Made
The Gate And It’s Not As Good Sequel The Gate II: Tresspassers
But
since then, has mostly gone on to make TV movies for both the Hallmark Channel
and SyFy and we have actually inducted a movie that he directed also for SyFy.
Now we
need a lead who could be convincing for such a movie, but we don’t want to pay
too much money for him so let’s get……oh no…
Corin
Freakin’ Nemic
Look, I
have no personal hatred for Corin Nemic and he is an okay actor, but I have
seen several movies this guy has been in as the lead character and every
freaking time I had seen one of them, I REALLY do not like them. You might
remember he was the star of one of the worst shark movies I have ever inducted
in Raging Sharks, which came out the same year as this movie.
Fuck
That Movie And It’s Lack Of Understanding Of Water Pressure In The Depths Of
The Ocean
And
that is the only terrible movie of his that I had inducted at this point, but I
have also seen shit movies he was in like Sea Beast, Sand Sharks, Jurassic
Attack, Lake Placid vs. Anaconda, and Rottentail…..with each of those movies
being painful experiences to sit through. So he does not have the best track
record with me so I am dreading this as of now.
This
unfortunately doesn’t get any better when you see that there are more Monster
Crap alumni in this film like the female lead in this film Musetta Vander,
which I don’t even need to say the name of the movie. All I need to say is it
was my third ever induction and just show this GIF.
Yep…She’s
In Mansquito
You
also have Christa Campbell who was in that terrible 2008 Day Of The Dead
remake.
We also have some people (besides Corin Nemic) from Raging Sharks like Jonas Talkington (who was Jonas),
Atanas Srebev (who was Carlos in that film, Captain Bonasera in Sharks In Venice, Agent Madison in 2019’s Hellboy reboot, and Friedman in Shark Attack 3: Megalodon),
Vladimir Nikolov (who was an angry driver), Borislav Iliev (who was uncredited as a captain in that film and was a soldier in The Legend Of Hercules), Velizar Binev (who played Diver Jake), Julian Vergov (who was USS Roosevelt First Officer)
Speaking
of Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, we also have some people from Shark Attack 3:
Megalodon like Harry Anickin (who was Tolley),
Ivo
Tonchev (who was Ramirez), and Velizar Peev (who played Harry)
Besides
those two films, we have Franklin A. Vallette (who played Horrace in Zarkorr!
The Invader) and Kitodar Todorov (who was the Fight Announcer in The Legend Of
Hercules).
And we
have one more although kind of because while he did work on Mortal Kombat:
Annihilation, he was an effects person and that is Matt Jordan and as an
effects person, he is going to play the monster. Basically, they got someone
who worked on the Mansquito costume and decided to make him be in the costume
instead of hiring someone else to be in the costume, with the added carrot that
he gets some lines and a credit as an actor.
That
was a lot to talk about with this introduction to the movie so let’s get to the
actual movie.
We
begin this movie with news reports about a new disease that is a mutated form
of the West Nile Virus called the Gillem Virus.
And The
Way These News Reports Are….You Might Get Post Traumatic Flashbacks To COVID-19
Which Trust Me, This Movie Was Made Well Before That Shitstorm.
Your
Reminder That While This Shithead Who Oversaw The Pandemic Nightmare In This
Country Lost His Election In 2020, You Assholes Re-Elected Him In 2024 And I
Hate You All For Doing So. If We Somehow End Up Anywhere With COVID-25 to
COVID-28, I Will Seriously Haunt You All When I Die
We also
get our opening title card.
No….I
Will Still Call It Mansquito.
We then
see that a lab in Baltimore, Maryland is doing experiments with mosquitoes
(because yes, this Gillem Virus comes from mosquitoes) incapable of carrying
this virus and praying they become the only mosquitoes left as a way to
hopefully end this virus. We then meet our main character Lt. Thomas Randall,
who is a detective in the Homicide Division of the Baltimore Police Department
doing a narration monologue as the events we will see will apparently be the
past during the Gillem Virus pandemic.
Sadly
No Crossover With The Wire
He then
talks about how a murderer he captured and put behind bars named Ray Erickson
was being transferred to a private research facility and says it is crazy how
something so mundane can cause all the events that will happen in this film.
And
That’s Ray And Somehow He Was Able To Sneak In His Clothespin To Unlock Himself
Of The Handcuffs.
We then
go to the lab where we meet Dr. Jennifer Allen and Dr. Aaron Michaels.
Aaron
is pestering her in wondering if the experiments are ready. She tells him that
yes, the first experiments were successful, but they need to do more testing to
be certain. Jennifer says they haven’t tested them on humans yet to which Aaron
agrees on. He then says “yet” as if he is planning something that she does not
know about. We then meet another scientist and Jennifer’s lab assistant in Liz.
Don’t
Worry….She Won’t Be Long Enough In This Movie To Learn Or Even Care About Her
Last Name
The
cops with Ray arrive to the lab to meet with Aaron and of course they have to
sign paperwork to make the transfer official. Meanwhile, we get lots of
scientific mumbo jumbo to explain how this works, but basically….they are
putting something in these mosquitos to make sure they don’t carry the virus
and eventually cause all the mosquitos not to carry the virus. We also find out
the lab is part of Bellion Pharmaceuticals.
Both Jennifer
and Liz leave the lab to get some coffee. They are about to go back to the lab,
but Liz forgot some sugar for her coffee so she goes back alone to get some
while Jennifer enters the lab. Unfortunately, while signing the paperwork, the
officers are not exactly the best with watching Ray and Ray is able to get a
gun from one officer and shoot another officer while knocking out the first
one.
He has
a shootout where he kills two more cops. A security officer calls for backup
and Ray ends up taking Liz hostage.
He goes
to the locked lab door and forces Jennifer to let them in. Once inside, he
kills Liz.
Security
eventually gets in and there is a shootout between Ray and security. But there
is radiation in this area and we get a big explosion that encompasses both Ray
and Jennifer.
Ray is
filled with blue goo…
And
Jennifer Has Some Too
Security
comes in and Jennifer is in tears over the experience, but Ray has escaped via
a duct and the sewers.
Lucky
He Didn’t Run Into Any Mutant Ninja Turtles
One of
Ray’s arms turns into a Mosquito appendage.
Dammit….And
That Was My Wanking Hand Too.
The
police and ambulance finally show up, but Ray is able to evade the authorities
via a homeless disguise.
Oh,
Don’t Mind Me…I’m Just Some Junkie Looking For His Next Fix Of Blo…….w
He
looks outside of the R&B Bar and sees a woman he once knew named Tia.
He sees
his face in the sign glass and breaks it. Later, we see Tia heading home and
gets some cat calls from some random goons who are just all talk. She of course
does not live in a good neighborhood and she realizes her apartment has been
broken into.
Well,
good news is nothing of hers was stolen but the bad news is it was Ray.
Sorry
About Messing Up Your Place
Tia is
shocked to see Ray and Ray wants her car before then saying he needs her to
help him as he hasn’t been feeling good. It gets even worse as Ray transforms
into the Mansquito.
Okay
The CGI For The Transformation Parts Are Bad, But The Actual Finished Product
Of The Transformation Looks Really Good.
This
does not go well for Tia as she gets killed and her blood sucked.
The
authorities are still at the Bellion Pharmaceuticals building as Thomas finds
Jennifer and the two embrace, showing they are in a relationship.
Jennifer
explains what happened although she doesn’t name the man since she didn’t know
him. The medics think she needs to go to the hospital to get checked out, but
Jennifer just wants to go home and Thomas says she can be checked out here with
him taking her home afterwards. We then see Thomas’ partner Detective Charlie Morrison
talking with Aaron who is upset about the millions they lost due to this
incident.
After
talking with Charlie, Thomas finds out that the convict who escaped in all the
chaos was the guy he put away years ago which definitely would piss any cop
off. We find out that Ray was supposed to be on death row when he was
transferred here for some experimentation. Jennifer shows up and says they
should check the hospitals to see if Ray ended up there because he was caught
in the explosion and was hurt pretty bad. She mentions that she was shielded by
the explosion by a table. She tells Thomas to get the guy and Thomas decides to
have some words with Aaron. So he has a chat with Aaron which basically boils
down to the fact that yeah, Aaron had Ray transferred here for experiments, but
it isn’t his fault for what happened.
Oh, I
Am So Going To Be Happy When You Are Dead
Thomas
thinks about staying behind and having Charlie take Jennifer home, but Charlie
is like “Dude…..this is your girlfriend. You take her home and I’ll deal with
stuff here” although he says it more professionally like “I got this.” Before
he leaves, Thomas tells Charlie that Ray killed 12 people before they caught
him so be careful. Thomas takes Jennifer home and we see that the Mansquito is
watching.
Thomas
is on the phone and finds out that both the hospital checks and morgue checks
turn up nothing on Ray. In the bathroom, Jennifer thinks that something is
wrong with her although nothing seems to be wrong. Thomas decides that he is
going to stay with her for the night and she is glad about this. He asks if she
wants some wine, but she actually wants some orange juice. She then goes to her
computer to see how much data she has backed up because the explosion caused a
lot of problems.
We then
go to a red vision which is supposed to be the Mansquito vision.
Well,
then it goes back to the apartment and Jennifer wakes up showing that it is the
next day. Thomas gets a phone call from Charlie saying that he needs to get to
work and Charlie also asks if Jennifer is doing okay. Charlie tells him about
the Tia death and he explains that she was a call girl. Thomas wonders why he
is calling him for that and Charlie explains that Tia used to date Charlie,
which prompts our male lead to say “I’ll be right there”. Thomas tells Jennifer
to take it easy as he heads towards Tia’s apartment. At the apartment, they see
that Tia is missing a couple pints of blood.
Thomas
sees some strange fluid and he tells the lab boys to get this stuff to the lab
for testing. They definitely know that Ray has done this since his prison
jumpsuit is ripped up and there. Thomas says they need to go back to the office
and look over his old case files as well as anyone who Ray has ever been in
contact with because what happened to Tia is only the beginning. Thomas also
explains that this is new as Ray used to kill people with multiple gun shot
wounds.
Jennifer
then goes back to the lab which I’m surprised has not been cautioned taped off
because it is an active crime scene. She tries putting some blood away, but
gets jumpy as Aaron yells that all that years of research is gone and for some
reason, he blames her…..even though he’s the one who brought in the criminal. Aaron
also reveals he has had to lay off all the research assistants because the
government contracts will not wait for them to get back on their feet with the
experiments and we also see that Aaron has been drinking before leaving. Some
blood drips on Jennifer and she licks it, which is not something she would
normally do and she knows that, which causes concern.
Aaron
continues saying she blew it before going into his office. Jennifer then goes
in to give him a piece of her mind by telling him that he is the one who had
the prisoner bought here as he was going to do human experiments behind her
back which was breaking protocol. Aaron’s response to her telling it like it
is, is to basically tell her to get back to work as people are dying. She says
he makes her sick and leaves. Good news is we don’t have to deal with Dr.
Douchebag not much longer as the Mansquito shows up and kills his ass.
Again…I’m
Definitely Impressed With This Mansquito Costume
Back at
the police station, Charlie tells Thomas that the goop has the lab stumped and
they’ll need to take it to the federal lab. Everything on Ray’s contacts has
turned up dead as no one has heard from him since he got arrested. Thomas says
they need to find something and fast because their perp is definitely going to
kill again. And we immediately go to the R&B Club that Tia was at as a
random guy goes inside and despite the place being open, the place seems empty.
He calls out to Barry who is probably running this joint and he finds Barry
behind a door window signaling for him to get out.
He asks
Barry where the rest of the staff is and Barry points over to the bar. Our no
name guy finds them dead.
He also
finds customers dead too.
No name
guy thinks Barry did something and asks what he did, bur Barry tries to tell
the guy to turn around because Barry definitely didn’t kill those people as the
Mansquito shows up to basically show the audience that he did it.
Yep…..That’s
All On Me. My Bad.
Mansquito
uses one of his appendages to stab the guy with no name as Barry can only watch
in horror.
Bye,
Guy Who Has No Name
Barry
can’t hold back his horror and screams, alerting the Mansquito of someone else
to kill.
Mmmmm….More
Blood
We then
see blood sprayed on the disco ball to show that Barry got killed.
Back at
the police station, Charlie gets word about the murders at the R&B Club so
they go there immediately. At the new crime scene, they remark that they have
never seen anything like this and Thomas thinks that there is something that
isn’t right about all of this. Charlie thinks it is just a psycho who takes it
out on everyone else, but Thomas says there is more to this and then decides to
go back to the lab to see if they have anything new on the goop they found at
Tia’s place.
While
on his way to the lab via car, Thomas calls Jennifer to ask if she is hungry
and she responds that she is starved. She asks if everything is alright, which
he says everything is fine. He then says he will swing by his place and then go
to pick her up afterwards so they can get some food. We then cut to them at a
restaurant called Moderato.
At the
restaurant, she wants her steak extra rare. She also sniffs a flower a lot. We
see on the outside that the Mansquito is following them again. Jennifer then
explains that while Ray was burnt from the radiation, he wasn’t completely
cooked because the radiation they are using isn’t that powerful. She explains
that the radiation is only used to delicately alter the DNA of mosquitos, but
otherwise the radiation is harmless to anyone else but mosquitos…although she
cannot say for sure about that. They leave and head to the car, but Jennifer
smells a aroma she likes and Thomas thinks she smells flowers again, but she
says it definitely isn’t that…..and no further questions.
We then
go to the Mansquito who was right there (and Jennifer didn’t see him at all) as
he gets interrupted by a homeless guy who believes he is standing on his turf.
The Mansquito turns around and the guy decides the Mansquito is not worth
bothering as he goes to leave. The homeless guy runs to the underground
homeless encampment where there are more homeless people with the main one
being this guy.
The Bad
Guy From Shark Attack 3: Megalodon Has Seen Better Days
He asks
if the running homeless guy is okay, but the other guy just keeps running. He
laughs thinking he is on a bad trip, but the running homeless guy just led the
Mansquito to this encampment and let’s just say the Mansquito has a buffet to
work with here.
We Only
See Shadows Of Their Deaths
We go
back to Thomas and Jennifer at what I believe is his place and Thomas admits
that Jennifer has been a bit out of character today with her food and drink
choices. They cuddle together and of course that leads to them getting ready to
have sex.
She
gets on top of Thomas for the sex, but she starts having red vision and seeing
his veins.
Oh And
Her Eyes Go Red Too
She
then scratches Thomas (which hurts) and sucks the blood from the wound.
This Is
Some Real Kinky Shit
Of
course Thomas stops her as the phone rings. He has to leave as they found some
bodies at the old subway tunnel which was where this homeless encampment was. He
leaves and she starts feeling sick over what she had done with the blood
sucking. She spits out the blood and tries to wash her mouth out with water
when she notices that there are marks on her arm. Eventually there are also
marks on her back.
Oh She
Is Slowly Turning Into A Womansquito Because Of The Smaller Does She Got
We then
go to the homeless encampment as the authorities are bringing out bodies and
they obviously see this is the same MO with the blood sucking. Thomas
immediately wants to take a look at a map of the old subway tunnels and decides
to do some exploring down a tunnel to where the lab is above. He finds another
dead body (the body of the homeless guy who tried to be tough before seeing
what he was dealing with), but sees something is watching. He goes to see what
it is and he finds more dead bodies until he finds the Mansquito.
We Meet
At Last.
Thomas
starts shooting and those bullets do nothing. Mansquito grabs the cop and
starts throwing him around as if it’s AEW All In. After beating his ass a bit,
Mansquito just walks away and Charlie and other cops arrive on the scene.
Charlie wants to know what happened and Thomas tells him exactly what happened,
much to Charlie’s disbelief. He then tells Charlie to report in this Mansquito
creature and Charlie hesitantly does so as Thomas goes to find Jennifer to see
if she knows how to kill this thing. Oh, they also have to know that this thing
has armor plating so bullets won’t work. We sadly don’t get to hear how this
conversation goes with dispatch, but I’m sure it went like this.
Dispatch:
Baltimore Police
Dispatch, Over
Charlie:
I Want You To Put
Out An APB On A Ray Erickson
Dispatch:
Okay….Bald Tall White
Man Of Decent Build, Got It
Charlie:
No, He’s Changed
His Appearance Since Then. He….*sigh* Now Looks Like A Mosquito In Human Form
Dispatch:
Okay….Big Eyes And
A Long Ass Nose. I Think I Have You.
Charlie:
No….*sigh* He Is
An Actual Mosquito In Human Form Now. He Mutated Somehow.
Dispatch:
*snickers* What?
*snickers* Are You Pulling My Leg?
Charlie:
I’m Serious Here.
He’s A Mosquito Man With Armor Piercing So Bullets Don’t Work On Him
Dispatch:
*laughs
uncontrollably* Guys, You Need To Hear This. I’m Putting This On Speaker. Say
Again What He Looks Like
Charlie:
He’s A Mosquito
Man With Armor Piercing So Bullets Don’t Hurt Him
*Department
Just Laughs Out Loud*
Random
Desk Cop #1: Maybe
We Should A Giant Fly Swatter
Random
Desk Cop #2: No,
We Need A Giant Bug Spray. All The Poison In The World.
Random
Desk Cop #3: I Got
One Better. We Need A Giant Bug Zapper. Mosquitos Love To Go Into Those Things
To Get Killed.
*All
Laugh Insanely*
Charlie:
*under his breath*
I Hate You, Tommy.
We go
back to the lab that has not been cautioned taped off even though I’m sure
someone probably found the body of Aaron as Jennifer cuts herself and examines
her own blood under a microscope. She sees that her blood is mutating and is
upset. She doesn’t get too far into her destroying the lab tantrum as the
Mansquito shows up. She draws a knife, but that does nothing.
Yeah,
Mansquito Wants To Mate With Sindel From MK: Annihilation. At Least Someone
Liked Her In That Film.
She
faints as we go to Thomas who is trying to get to Jennifer, but he gets a
called from Frank from the federal lab. He tells Thomas that the goop he gave
him is mostly regurgitated blood, but also has a certain enzyme that keeps
blood from coagulating. He says it is only found in biting flies and mosquitoes
so yes, we are dealing with a Mansquito. He somehow knows she is at the Bellion
Pharmaceuticals and arrives there to find Jennifer fainted.
He Also
Sees That Her Face Is Having Some Cracks In It.
He also
sees her arm and sees that she is mutating. Jennifer wakes up and Thomas tells
her he is taking her to the hospital. At the hospital, Thomas tells her that
the doctors are giving her a blood transfusion to slow this disease down,
whatever it is. Jennifer reveals that she was exposed in the explosion, but it
was just her arm. However, it has gone past the arm and she apologizes for not
telling her boyfriend. Jennifer thinks the Mansquito’s pain must be tremendous
and Thomas says the bug man seemed pretty pissed off when he ran into him. Thomas
tells Jennifer that he needs her help to deal with this bug guy as he is
leaving bodies all over the place, plus he doesn’t know why he is sticking
around since they are on to him. Jennifer says he is more mosquito than man now
and all mosquitos want are to suck blood and mate, and since she is also
exposed and mutating, she is the only mate for him. She’s says he is coming for
her, but is waiting until she finishes changing.
Thomas
says that is not going to happen as they will find a cure for her and he has
cops all over this place waiting to kill the Mansquito. He still wants to know
how to kill this thing and all Jennifer says is that it’s too late to. We see
one of the cops waiting outside in his police car when he hears a noise. He
goes to inspect and that proves to be his undoing as the Mansquito kills him.
Back in
the hospital, Jennifer wants to get back to the lab and Thomas says that isn’t
happening. He gets an alert that one of the cops has gone missing and he goes
to see what’s up. Charlie is waiting and Thomas tells her that whatever
happened to the Mansquito is happening to her in a much slower progression as
she wasn’t hit by the blast as badly as he was. Thomas tells Charlie to keep an
eye on Jennifer as he goes to see what is going on with the missing cop. By the
way, I should mention that since the actor who plays Charlie doesn’t speak very
good English so if his words aren’t matching his lips, just know that he was
dubbed in this movie (although uncredited mind you) by the guy whose done
plenty of dub work like Launch in Royal Space Force: The Wings Of Honneamise;
Yusuke Uramenshi in the Media Blasters dub of Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie;
Hoppered The Gauntlet in Trigun; Bihorn, Pig Ant, and Baro in Hunter x Hunter;
Golgius in Seven Deadly Sins; and Shikaku Nara in Narato: Shippuden and Borato.
Outside,
Mansquito must have drank a Red Bull as he now has wings.
CGI
Wings Are Still Wings
He then
flies to the top of the hospital.
Mosquito
Man…..He Flies Like A Moron (You Knew I Had To Make That Joke)
Thomas
shows up and since no one has heard anything, he wants SWAT here in ten minutes
or sooner since he believes the Mansquito is here. Also they need to bring
enough armor piercing rounds for everyone at the hospital. Charlie goes to
check in on Jennifer and we see the red eyes are definitely on Jennifer.
Jennifer
moans in pain and then screams “He’s Here!”, signifying the Mansquito is near. The
Mansquito kills some cops and Charlie says to deal with it as he goes to find a
doctor. Thomas is outside and finds the cop’s body before getting a call from
Charlie that something is going on in the hospital. People are evacuated from
the hospital as more cops arrive. Oh and SWAT has also arrived.
SWAT
goes into the building while keeping Thomas out of it. They immediately find
the Mansquito and get slaughtered.
Yikes
On CGI For The Flying Mansquito
Thomas
goes in and says nobody else goes in or out of the hospital without his say so.
With the SWAT getting torn to pieces, you just know the hospital security
stands no chance against this thing.
Oooohhh….Nasty
The
Mansquito finds Jennifer and goes to take her with him, but is stopped by
Charlie.
Poor
Charlie Is Ineffective And Now Dead
Jennifer
then runs away as more cops get killed. Oh and you remember that whole “no one
gets in or out unless Thomas says so”?
Well,
Jennifer Gets Out With No Problem Whatsoever And Is Able To Change Clothes Too
A cop
does show up and thinks she is just a random patient so he takes her to go get
some help. He puts her in a cop car and says they need more paramedics, but
Jennifer can see his blood vessels.
She
pushes him out and steals the cop car.
That’s
Gonna Get You A Police Star In Grand Theft Auto
Thomas
enters the hospital with a machine gun and sees that Charlie is dead, which
bums him out. He then sees that Jennifer is not in her room so I’m sure he
thinks the Mansquito has kidnapped his girl and is going to do unspeakable
things to her. He calls out for Jennifer and hears what he thinks is her, but
it is actually a female cop who is not dead yet.
He
still checks in on her even as she says it isn’t her blood that is on her. She
points Thomas over to where the Mansquito is and is told to get out of there,
which she is more than happy to do. He then finds the Mansquito over where they
keep their blood for transfusions and stuff.
So Much
Glorious Blood
Thomas
then sees that there are some probably flammable tanks of air nearby so he
shoots at them, but not before saying this line.
Thomas:
Hey…..Mansquito!!!!!
Well,
with that explosion….the movie should be over, right? Well, bad news is there
are still 17 minutes of the movie left so no, it isn’t over. Thomas somehow
survives this explosion.
Thomas
shouts that he is alright so he doesn’t need medical attention. He keeps
calling for Jennifer, but one cop tells her that everyone has been evacuated
and the only people inside are rescue crews so that makes Thomas happy and so,
he goes to his car and drives off to who knows where. Unfortunately, that
explosion was completely pointless as the Mansquito also survived the damn
thing.
That
Didn’t Do Shit To Me!
Of
course Jennifer is back at her lab at Bellion Pharmaceuticals and is feeling
more of the mosquito DNA coming into her. She then goes to the mosquito cages
and finds the mosquitoes in one of them are still alive so since they are the
ones who can’t get or spread the Gillem Virus, she decides to take a shot and
release the little things, hoping that will kill the virus.
Fly, My
Pretties….And I Hope You Save Human Kind
And I
guess once again Thomas knew that was where she would be as he drives to that
building and meets her there, just as she is trying to poison herself.
She
tells him to leave, but he refuses. He says the Mansquito is dead, but she
smells around and confirms that the Mansquito is not dead. He says that is
impossible and is saddened to see how much she has changed. She explains that
she has released the mosquitoes and if she is correct, the Gillem Virus should
die out in a matter of days. She still tries to tell Thomas to stay away from
her, but he is definitely in love with her so that is not even up for
discussion. He stops her from injecting poison into herself and the Mansquito
arrives.
Thomas
starts shooting at the thing which doesn’t work too much, although he does get
one of the eyes.
Dammit,
You Got One Of My Compound Eyes. You’re Lucky I Still Have A Second Compound
Eye And Three Simple Eyes Underneath Those.
Thomas
tells Jennifer to run as he attacks the Mansquito with a fire extinguisher.
After
that is done with, Thomas grabs an axe and tries chopping the creature with it,
but the armor makes sure that does not work. Mansquito is about to try and kill
our male lead, but Jennifer screams and has the Mansquito follow her. The bug
man follows her into the sewers and the abandoned subway tunnels. After a
minute, Thomas follows too and that’s where he finds Aaron’s body so if you are
wondering like me why there was no police tape for Aaron’s body since it
happened a while ago, it’s because it was never discovered. Jennifer hits the
Mansquito with a pipe, but that does nothing. Thomas sneak attacks the
Mansquito with a taser and once again, that does nothing. Jennifer tags herself
back in and attacks the Mansquito with a tackle and some fists, but yeah….just
minor annoyances.
The bug
man starts flying, but Jennifer grabs his legs and decides they need to die
together. She finds some wires that still have electricity and uses that to
shock the two of them to death.
We then
go back to the beginning of the movie where Thomas was filing his report on the
situation with the Mansquito. A news report explains that the total number of
new cases for the Gillem Virus has dropped off to zero, which means the
experiment and the freeing of the mosquitoes from the lab ended up working in
killing off the deadly disease. The report is printed and we get narration that
says that Thomas lost everything he ever cared about. He puts the report a
folder and then leaves it for his bosses to pick up. He narrates that with
every end comes a new beginning and as he leaves work, the movie ends.
So the
aftermath of this coming out was met with the usual response to these films,
which is either “the film is definitely bad, but it has enough that you’ll have
a good time with it” or “it was not nearly goofy enough for me to have a good
time”. The effects (minus the CGI) and gore were actually praised for a smaller
budget movie. Dread Central even made a joke about it either being dumb luck or
the law of averages in that SyFy got a good film out of this. But the casting
was definitely seen as a problem as not many bought Corin Nemic as a tough as
nails cop.
As far
as people doing this after this movie, Christa Campbell (who played Liz) was
also the Milk Maiden in the 2001 Maniacs remake the same year as this film and
was also in the sequel to this film.
But
other than that, there hasn’t been much done by a lot of people (which is
typical for most Made For SyFy films). Sadly like most of the inductions on
this site, we do have at least one person who has since passed away since this
movie. Jay Benedict (who played Dr. Aaron Michaels) died in 2020 at the age of
68 from complications due to COVID-19.
Now for
my final thoughts on this film. It turns out my dreading about this film with
Corin Nemic in it was somewhat unfounded as honestly, it’s just okay. The name
(before the DVD Company stupidly changed it) evokes some real cheese and
enjoyment. The effects (barring the dated CGI) are really good for a small
budget movie of this kind (especially the mosquito suit and the slow makeup transformation of Jennifer). The acting is fine
for the most part and unlike what some people felt, I didn’t mind Corin Nemic
as a tough as nails cop since just being in a movie I don’t hate at a
ridiculous level is a miracle. The script is as two dimensional as you get with
a movie made for SyFy, but that is not entirely a bad thing. Films like these
were why I had fun with those Saturday AIM chats nearly 20 years ago.
And
good news is I have two more Made For SyFy movies to finish this summer. You
see, TheDeadRises wanted the latter of these two films to be his next
induction, but it seemed fair to do the film before it first and then that film
in September because the two films were shot back to back and have characters
from both films.
Yep….We’re
Gonna Table Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid And Go Straight To
Anaconda 3.
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