Director: Brad Thomasson
Year: 2024
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Creature Feature
Plot:
After a series of strange incidents, a sheriff in a small-town community learns that the responsible party is a giant wasp mutated from a chemical spill turning it into a monstrous killing machine and forcing her to bring in an additional series of tactics to stop the bloodsoaked rampage.
Review:
This was a fairly fun and cheesy creature feature. The main selling point here involves everything about the creature going on a rampage as it does with the simple storyline getting it free from the chemical spill that turns it large as well and then going around into a solid series of encounters from there is a great touch. As there’s a continuous assortment of encounters and confrontations with the locals where the clumsily-inserted wasp is shown swarming around the background before turning to kill them, this is handled with the type of randomized indie-style encounters where the individuals go about their lives only to find the creature has arrived and kills them in graphic means featuring the immensely goofy effects to pull it off. Given the kind of immensely cheesy and silly material present with how the scenes come together or the general approach of the production that matches the same indie tone as the rest of the film, this gets quite silly and cheesy at times.
For those that appreciate this style and approach to films, it gets a lot to like while that setup does come with the risk of turning off those who don't enjoy it. The whole approach of this one appearing as a random assortment of skits coming together with random people who don’t interact with others, are subject to a never-ending series of silly CGI-filled encounters with the creature that also barely interacts with others, or just come off as so patently ridiculous that it all looks cheap does make this one feel slightly problematic at points. With this managing to go for an approach that highlights its origins with these filmmaking tactics or the series of obvious interjections to highlight the crowdfunding setup of the whole thing that helps to showcase these aspects as well, this one never attempts to highlight what type of film it is and might be the kind of feature that will turn off viewers.
Overview: **.5/5
A solidly cheesy indie creature feature, there’s a lot to like here for those who are into those who appreciate this approach while the same cheesiness might be a detriment to others as well. Those who appreciate this kind of genre effort or are fans of the creative crew will have the most to enjoy here while all others turned off by these factors should heed extreme caution.
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