Mosquito Man (2005)

Very best movie i ever watch

Memorable, crazy movie

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Once in a while a movie comes by that is so campy and fun that it forever finds a place in your heart. This could almost be one of those movies if the production wasn't so lackluster and straight-forward. The idea is delightfully insane, but where does it really go from there? The whole movie bathes in a rather unpleasant Eurotrash-atmosphere, probably because most of the dirty work was outsourced to Bulgaria to cut costs. Their cheap labour actually looks semi-professional, which is the absolute worst thing you can have in a movie about a killer half man/half mosquito. Corin Nemec plays the hero in this movie, to which I can only say that I'm glad he's working. It beats infomercials, not by much though. "Mansquito" is in many ways frustrating, because it could have gone so much more over the top. There are a couple of good action scenes though, and it does have the merit of an insanely high body count, so I guess I still kinda like it.

So I've pretty much gave up on believing the DVD boxes at the rental store,especially the horror ones.They promise scares and terror and end up leaving you feeling mad and ripped off.But the box for this one didn't even promise much.I guess with a name like "Mosquito Man" there ain't no use in pretending you're gonna be good.But I didn't care about the read on the box.I thought maybe we would go old school,back to the 80's in horror,when all the rage was some big cool looking monster,like Rawhead Rex or Pumpkinhead.OK,first off this movie is nothing but a blatant rip-off of "The Fly" but without the cool gore or anything else that made "The Fly" at least watchable.When an experiment to save the world from some mosquito carried virus goes wrong a guy is mutated into a giant mosquito.Really.So he kills people by sucking them dry of blood .A cop decides that the dead bodies turning up around town aren't being killed by your average wacko and the cop is determined to find what is killing all these folks.The acting is bad.The plot is worse.Some of the special effects were decent.But the Mosquito itself looked really cheesy at times,actually all the time, but sometimes it looked worse than others.Stupid ,plodding and nothing cool here at all.The only saving grace was that it was a fairly short movie.No nudity and very little cursing for some reason.The most cursing was from me, I suppose, at having been disappointed again by yet another cruddy horror movie.Don't rent this mess.Even if you could see it for free it would still be a rip-off.

"Hey, Mansquito!" Cory Nemec yells as he takes on an 8-foot mosquito with a body like armor plate and an insatiable thirst for human blood. And that gives you an idea of the level of this Sci-Fi Channel flick, which has an escaped murderer getting doused with some chemical and morphing into a reasonably scary, blood-sucking monster. Problem is, when it's a man in a rubber suit, Mansquito can barely get out of its own way. When it is CGI, the thing's all over the place and can even fly, after a fashion. The two images don't mesh very well, but I'm a sucker for a man in a rubber suit, having grown up on Godzilla flicks. What raises this no-plot nonsense above the ordinary is the extraordinary amount of gore. When Mansquito gets its claws on ya, it's pretty ghastly. It stabs its protuberance into one's head or chest and sucks the poor victim dry. It also has a tendency to dismember some of its victims, all of whom are all displayed in lovely, splattery fashion. After awhile, the place looks like a war zone. Besides Cory yelling "Hey, Mansquito!", I loved the bit where two cops spot the ripped-off arm of a fellow officer, the hand still holding a gun, and one says to the other, "What's that?" before hastily retreating. Plus the always lovely if eternally untalented Musetta Vander is the requisite mad scientist. Even in her 40s, she's such a dish. Watch it for the incredible amount of gore. By the way, the bloodsucking sequences were clearly inspired by the Queen Bug in STARSHIP TROOPERS stabbing Patrick what's-his-name in the head and sucking his brains out. No harm, no foul.

OK, I am consumed with Christa Campbell. I have read and reread this month's Playboy feature on her. OK, I mainly looked at the pictures. I even ran down to get Scars when it came out to see her one picture in it. She is a MySpace friend and I cannot wait until her new film is out on DVD next month and the 2001 Maniacs sequel comes out next year.I am so obsessed that i would watch this movie just to catch a glimpse at her. But, I stuck with it until the end because it was interesting. I do live in Florida, so I thought I might get a tip on how to kill mosquitoes. No, the bug zapper doesn't work in real life.I did get to see three things: One of the most ugly creatures I have ever seen in a horror movie - I mean I hate those things at actual size, why would anyone want to see one seven foot tall. Ugh! Two, they used buckets of blood in this film. There was some real carnage in the hospital scenes. You were totally unprepared as the prior scenes were relatively mild.And, three, Musetta Vander is hot. She was a siren in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but I didn't know here name. She has only been in two other pieces of crap that I have seen, so I didn't really notice her as I was retching.Not a great movie, but not a total waste either.