Deadly Swarm (2003) (DVD Review)
Directed By: Paul Andresen
Starring: Shane Brolly, Kaarina Aufranc, J. Patrick McCormack
Rated: R/Region: 1/Widescreen/Number of disc: 1
Available from Miramax/Lionsgate
Seeking out a cure for his wife’s serious illness, gonzo scientist Jacob Schroeder (J. Patrick McCormack) heads deep into a forbidden jungle in Guatemala, trapping thousands of killer wasps. Working with secret military backing, it is Schroeder’s contention that the venom from the wasp’s stingers can be of great medicinal benefit. But when they try to illegally smuggle the wasps into the US, the truck they are on crashes and the wasps are set free to wreak havoc, making a direct path to a small unsuspecting town. It is up to an American entomologist Daniel Lang (Shane Brolly) and a nosey writer Sandra Kern (Kaarina Aufranc) to stop these deadly wasps – as they lay eggs in their victims to hatch thousands more wasps – before it’s too late.
Something like this doesn’t come along too often and that is probably for the best. Here, we have a plot that is at least something swarming besides bees, but still seems to lack any sting. The characters here do and say rather dumb things. There wasn’t even any acting to back anything here up. I’ve not used the term atrocious in a long time, but that is the best word I can think of to combat the acting that is tossed at us by way of the TV screen in this one. Things are just too awkward and too redundant for their own good.
The bad guy here is one of those bad guys who swears his evil is for the greater good and what is a few hundred dead bodies when the rest of humanity can be saved? If you toss every played out concept of a horror film and toss it together you will end up with Deadly Swarm. This movie wasn’t even campy fun or so bad it was good. It was just bad. I think late night on the Syfy channel is where this one belongs. Oddly enough, I think that is where this one came from.
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