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Absolutely worthless, mirthless would-be comedy/horror trash! If you like your low-budget horror slow-moving and completely without any kind of tension or scariness, well, my friends, you're in luck! This is the movie for you!! No scares, no nudity, no sexual tension (despite the presence of a coupla skin-worthy starlets), precious little gore... Thanks for wasting my time, BUG BUSTER! I hope the filmmakers die from cancer of the soul. That's what I felt like watching their putrid turd of a half-witted effort. Any movie that can waste the efforts of likable talents like Katherine Heigl and Meredith Salenger and Bernie Kopell has really not got a lot going for it. We won't even speak of the wasted time and efforts of our favorite STAR TREK supporting players George Takei and James Doohan. Hope you got sizable checks for this, guys.

While I was fairly impressed with the first two episodes of this series, I couldn't help but feel the shows would have benefited by being expanded into 75-90 minute features. While there was enough tension (barely) I think they would have bettered the show by giving them more depth of characterization. Greater length would have allowed them to be distributed overseas and on video as features. If TV-head/exec producer Mick Garris had been thinking properly, he might have set himself up as his generation's Val Lewton or Roger Corman. Oh,well, Hollywood squanders a golden opportunity. What else is new? I'll keep watching, though, all the while wishing someone had had the foresight to make these movies instead of mere TV series episodes.

Critics and fans alike have been mystifyingly kind to this blatant and utterly banal rip-off of the clearly superior "Six Feet Under." The cast of "Out of Order"(see, even the title is a derivative) is the only thing that makes this show even marginally watchable. Eric Stoltz and Felicity Huffman do what they can with what feels like underwritten characters. The rest of the cast shines too, but the problem is the creative team aims higher than they can deliver. They can't really do anything except put their characters through motions we've seen done better before. They aim for a "How we live now" immediacy that just doesn't hold my interest, unlike "Six Feet Under" which doesn't have any problem being original and provocative.