3 Tidbits from Wikipedia that makes this preSoat-film stink

Gunter, it turns out, is in fact called Joe and hails from New Jersey - explaining his horrendous German accent. He makes up for his feelings of inadequacy around girls by projecting this false and potentially more exciting persona, though it doesn't seem to work as he manages to bore Courtney the Karate kid earlier in the film. Shortly after this moving revelation Joe is killed by the scorpions.

A subplot towards the start of the film revolves around Yaffi and his brother Sudan sneaking on the plane to carry out the plan that their father died trying to carry out eleven years previous. Their constant praise of Allah and sinister discussions about the plan were perhaps intended as a light jab at terrorism in the days before the attacks on the World Trade Center, since it is revealed that the pair are in fact electricians hoping to sneak into the US without a work permit.

The scientists refer to the scorpions as insects, and the creatures have a queen, though scorpions are in fact arachnids.