Deadly Swarm

In Guatemala, a team leaded by the lunatic scientist Dr. Schroeder (J. Patrick McCormack) gets rare specie of killing wasps by force from some Indians. They hire a drug dealer to bring the insects to Mexico, and provoke an accident with his truck, releasing the wasps. The truck is followed by a snoopy American journalist, Sandra (Kaarina Aufranc), that is covering a matter about traffic of cocaine. In the location, coincidently the American entomologist Daniel Lang (Shane Brolly) is making a research with mosquitoes. When the wasps attack the locals, Daniel sees how dangerous the species is and tries to help the population with the support of Sandra.

"Deadly Swarm"is supposed to be a horror movie, but is so absurd and has so many flaws that become funny. I found this low-budget flick very entertainment, and laughed a lot. Therefore, if you shut-down your brain and stop thinking, you may find this movie a great joke and have a good time. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Vespas Assassinas" ("Assassin Wasps")

Deadly Swarm is a very surprisingly good horror movie. Most of the actors and actresses are not very well known. The main caricature that plays the entomologist (Study of insects )is the same actor that played in both of the Underword movies as Kraven, the vampire that is the trader that is secretly working for the werewolves. The plot of Deadly Swarm keeps you interested,intrigued and on toes to what is going to happen next in the movie. If you prefer horror movies that are insect related like Locusts: The 8th Plaque or Larva, you do not want to pass up Deadly Swarm. You well not be sorry that you have watched it, it's got a little bit every thing for everybody. Even my husband that preference action movies liked Deadly Swarm.

All though there are some lame-O effects and things that just don't make sense in the script, like the base jumping scene that introduces the lead character as a bad-ass, it is still an enjoyable romp through Mexico. I wish there were more Wasp effects. Definetley recommended for people who like monster movie and still have a brain.

DEADLY SWARM? DEADLY JUNK, more like, because this is the nadir of the B-movie genre; a piece of junk, filled with lame effects and worse acting, and not much else. The attacks by a swarm of killer bees are animated via cheesy CGI effects, as you'd expect, but even they are few and far between and the rest of the running time is taken up by boring dialogue scenes and cheesy emoting.

Most noticeably, DEADLY SWARM lacks the 'hook' of a name actor to hold the whole production together. These B-movies usually wheel out some old face or another, but not so here; the viewer is left rudderless as a result, drifting aimlessly in an ocean of inanity. Although a US production, this was shot in Mexico, giving it a slightly exotic look, but the production values are so poor that it's difficult to sit through from beginning to end.

Another case of black CGI killer dots swarming around and killing people. As far as CGI effects go in these new millennium killer bee/wasp/housefly flicks, there's only one that got it right and that's "Swarmed" (the one with Tim Thomerson). "Deadly Swarm" is a bit on par with "Flying Virus" (the one with Rutger Hauer), only it doesn't go over the top as much. "Deadly Swarm" features a funny line when the local sheriff says "They look like @#$&%# flying piranhas!". The scene were they blew up the morgue (especially how they do it) got me laughing. And the ending is waaaay too convenient. But still, if you switch off your brain, you just might have some fun with it. But probably not enough.