Ticks (1994)

As Good As It Gets

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Pretty gross and pretty average MST3K style b-movie horror. There is a big monster and it kills people. The monster is particularly horrible looking. It is still using ropey special effects like normal. Worth watching for Seth Green but Alfonso Ribeiro is just plain annoying. Story is silly. Effects are acceptable. Not scary or a classic but still worthy of viewing time for cheesy fun.

Now remember guys this movie was made 21 years ago and I'm reviewing this in 2015. I believe the golden age for b-grade low budget creature movies have gone. Now all we are left with are a few gems like this one - 'Ticks'. Take it from the title which is a lot better than 'Spiders' or 'Big ass spider'. Low budget creature films nowadays have ruined the subject matter with muddled script, horrible acting and those cheap cgi effects. Filmmakers nowadays are not even making an effort to come up with at least a decent watch, which is why I urge viewers to stop investing time watching those movies. DO NOT go by the poster, go by the ratings/reviews, not all are fools. Take their advice and give old gems a try. Ticks being entertaining with a simple script and decent act has had me quiet impressed. Forget the cgi effects, doing it the old way has proved to be better than most.Filmmakers today should sit at home and study this movie before they step out to make movies not even worth rating.Thank You!

Director Tony Randel who also created other classic flicks, Amityville 1992: It's About Time 1992 and Hellbound: Hellraiser II has created a another gem in Infested.Starring Seth Green who has also been in another classic flick, Idle Hands 1999.Also starring Ami Dolenz.Also starring Rosalind Allen.I enjoyed the violence and special effects.If you enjoyed this as much as I did then check out other classic insect flicks, Phenomena 1985, The Fly 1986, The Thaw 2009, Infestation 2009, Mimic: Sentinel 2003, Mansquito 2005, Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 1990, Sucker 2013, Bite 2015, Stung 2015 and Starship Troopers 1997.

This was a decent effort from Tony Randel who doesn't have much more to his credit than Hellraiser II and Amityville '92. It's another uninspired "giant animals created by toxic waste" plot but it turns out to be surprisingly watchable. A group of city kids in one of those "fresh air" programs take a vacation to the countryside. In the woods nearby a marijuana grower (Howard) is testing an illegal steroid on his plants, but the chemical apparently gets to a nest of ticks in the barn where he works. The ticks get out into the woods and terrorize the group of kids and two social workers. A lot of people that saw this movie said it had a terrible plot, crappy acting and fake special effects. Well it is a horror movie. What do you expect? I looked at it less as a boring low-budget effort and more as a retrospective homage to older drive-in monster movies, much like 1988's "Slugs" and "The Nest" (which is very similar in pacing, sequencing, and special effects to Ticks). The effects in my opinion are great, done by stop-motion animator Doug Beswick of Terminator fame. The ticks are hideous, slimy, misshapen things; they pop out of these slimy egg sacs filled with dark brown goop. There's buckets and buckets of slime and nasty stuff here; there may not be a particularly high body count but it's more than made up for with plenty of other nasty effects. (A tick burrows under one guys face and blood sprays from his empty eye socket) Also the ending is a bit far-fetched and amazingly over the top. You'll see what I mean.