Awesome Cheese - Mosquito (1994) Discussion

[–] spookyhead 19 years ago

I loved this movie. The mosquito effects were actually pretty cool as far as puppet-work goes, but I would have been a lot more impressed had this been released in the 80's, as opposed to 1995. It certaintly looks like an 80's creature feature.
When the guys eyeballs explode, that is killer. The only thing I hated was the park ranger character just kind of dissapearing in the end. The meteorologist survives by hiding in a fridge or tub, but the one funny guy end up dying an nobody cares! Is this on DVD somewhere. I'd love to hear the commentary.

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[–] moviecollector 19 years ago

I love the occasional 'bad' movie & this is such a fun bad movie. I bought this too a few years ago, after renting it 1st.
I loved that line from Gunnar Hansen, with the chainsaw.
Sure, some of the effects for the flying mosquito were horrible but the puppet works for it were pretty good considering.
When Junior gets his blood sucked out & his eyes bulge out & explode - great death!

This is easily 1 of the best mosquito-related movies ever made!

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[–] pkillam 19 years ago

I watched this with my wife late Saturday night - we had a great time laughing at the poor directing/editing (a guy is in the water one second and the next scene he is on dry land in dry clothes), special effects (those bands of mosquitos attacking the van) and acting (EVERYWHERE). This to me is better than any top flic showing today in the movie theater with actors making 20 mil. a movie.

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[–] moviecollector 19 years ago

I totally agree with your last sentence.

This movie is so much better than the crap that's been released today.

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[–] runyanma 19 years ago

Best. Movie. Ever.

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[–] GoodbyePorkPieHat 18 years ago

Favorite lines??

The mosquitoes screaming like the Pod People in "Body-Snatchers" was great.

And I loved "Ray" saying, "Let's get the hell out of here!" about four times in two minutes.

But even better yet was: "Toss me that hatchet!"

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[–] rgl106 18 years ago

This movie was awesome. I saw this on tv probably like 3 or 4 times. I am too cheap to buy it. Cool cheesy horror movie.

In case of an impending nuclear threat, call Jack Bauer, he will know what to do.

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[–] Majic-Man 18 years ago

I don't know if it's worth buying, but hell yeah, it's better than anything Hollywood's been putting out lately.

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[–] Theshapeshifter 18 years ago

Cheap, weak, but tons of fun!

I choose my bodily form as easily as one would choose a thing to wear.

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[–] Werewolfy 18 years ago

When I first started watching this I expected something better... I was like: Oh man, WTF is this?? Then it turned out to be so terribly bad that it was good! It was so bad it was just funny, and I ended up liking all the characters in it and cheering for them, whilst laughing at the terrible special effects. It's like a zombie movie with mosquitos instead off zombies, and absolutely terribly made in every single way!

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[–] thklein 18 years ago

I liked when the guy lit a single shirt on fire, threw it in the mouth of the cave to keep the mosquito's out, and then said "the draft will keep it burning." As if the draft would allow that single shirt to burn all night. Apparently it was a non-consuming fire. Like Moses' burning bush, perhaps.

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[–] pkillam 18 years ago

The best comedy came when the perverted assistant ranger gets slapped in the face by the other ranger - it looked like a scene out of "Super Troopers"

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[–] Woodyanders 18 years ago

I found this film to be a great deal of infectiously trashy and dynamic low-budget retro 50's style creature feature horror fun. Granted, it's no work of exceptional sophisticated art, but it has a certain go-for-it aplomb and spirit which makes it a hugely entertaining piece of funky junk.

"Warren Oates died for our sins"

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[–] THE_Uberto_Bartono 16 years ago

I soooooooooo agree with everything said by the original poster. The Park ranger STOLE THIS MOVIE. HE WAS SO FOOKING FUNNY, and I hated how he just fell down the laundry shoot and then presumably die. Each time I watch this movie I hope he makes it out alive, cause lets be honest only the top of the house probably blew up. I choose to believe that some hilarious way he made it out of the house in the nick of time or after the explosion and it just wasn't featured in a movie.

Stoner of team DDWZJMSRFJMU Taking this off when TNA finally gets a 3.5 rating Since 9/20/07

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[–] giani1741 16 years ago

A cinematic masterpiece! Better than sharp cheddar.

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[–] mjr8-1 15 years ago

Coudlnt agree more! I thought this movie was stellar, its tkaes a certain kind of eye to see the beuty in certain films.

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[–] mackaroni 15 years ago

Yeah, what did you think of that wild scene with the giant mutated mosquito seemingly having some sort of sexual encounter with a naked chick in a tent. Also the scene where the guy gets drained of so much blood that his eyes pop out is pretty gross. Overall, this was a fun movie to watch and pretty cheesy.

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