Reviews

Here are the people in this movie if you don't know, and this was in 1991: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore—but even more intriguing is the cameo by Digital Underground, featuring Tupac Shakur and Humpty Hump. With a cast like this, how could this movie possible be bad? If you haven't seen it, there's probably a good reason.

Without going into an attempted plot analysis, because the actual plot of the movie is a few people trying to escape a crazy junkyard/bunker/haunted house while attempted "dark humor" and a few slapstick gags are supposed to be enough to make up for the lack of a back story. To sum it up, you see Dan Aykroyd in some horrible makeup that makes him look like old and disgusting. Without warning there are two fat guys in slimy fat suits who, according to the movie, were kicked out of high school for being too fat. But for some reason they run around in underwear and talk like babies. It might sound funny when reading the description, but it isn't…at all.

Then you have John Candy in drag for no reason except to waste a few minutes with the usual ugly-cross-dressing-man who make comedic passes at one of the stars. While they try to distract you with this, the movie tries to force a "spark" between Demi Moore and Chevy Chase which never works at all and also has no back story to make these character slightly real.

Most of the way through the movie you feel dirty and ashamed that you're watching such a bad movie. But there is a silver lining: Digital Underground.

Completely out of nowhere, Digital Underground shows up at this deserted fortress thing that is supposedly within about 45 minutes of New York City, yet is down some deserted dirt road miles outside of a very small town—this road at one point was described as being parallel with the interstate, yet people get lost there all the time. Furthermore, one part of the movie reveals that all these famous missing people were killed in this crazy junkyard/madhouse. The even find Jimmy Hoffa's ID. So this middle of the nowhere place somehow manages to secretly arrest and/or kill hundreds, if not thousands of people over the years, but no one ever noticed? But luckily, Digital Underground shows up in the courthouse. They say they are musicians, and Dan Aykroyd, as the insane old judge, tells them to play for him. Now this movie turns into a short music video for Humpty Hump and Tupac. They do a nice performance, despite the fact that at one point Ayrkoyd's character is playing some kind of old organ for a solo. The sheer randomness of this music video, along with the complete horribleness of the movie somehow wormed its way into my brain until I decided this movie is awesome and worthy of encouraging other people to watch.

DISCLAIMER: If you watch this movie, do not blame me for the time you wasted. But it will be worth it.

Well I'll start with the good points. The movie was only 86 minutes long, and some of it was so bad it was funny. Now for the low points. My first warning sign came with an actual "warning" on the film. When it started the following "warning" was displayed: "The film you are about to see contains graphic and disturbing images. Because contrary to popular belief being killed is neither fun, pretty or romantic." I should have saved myself the 86 minutes and turned it off then. The first words of the film were: "I'm at the glue factory." It was some guy talking on his phone, and he was referring to a nursing home as a glue factory. I don't know why. So the basis of the movie is some kid is obsessed with the Zodiac Killer and starts imitating him. The budget for this film was at least 50 bucks and they must have used the cheapest cameras they could find. The acting was worse than me reading straight from a script. That's what is looked like they were doing. The script was horrible, and the big "twist" was that this guy who wrote a biography on the Zodiac Killer was actually the Zodiac Killer. Of course they tried to show this subtly but made it totally obvious within the first 10 minutes. Without any more painful details of the plot, here were some horrible highlights of the movie. They try to make the Zodiac Killer compare himself to an "army of one" because soldiers are really just murderers. Then they tried to make an attempt at "Satanic Worship" by showing some guys in black hoods in a meeting. The great "computer hacker" was able to get this kid's address when someone gave him the kid's name and phone number. For some reason he had to hack into the FBI to get someone address. I'm not sure why he didn't just look it up in the phone book or use whitepages.com. There was also a random allusion to 9/11 for no reason. I also learned that no matter where you get shot, blood will come out of your mouth within seconds.

So if you like really bad acting, sub-par scripts, bad camera work and an obvious plot, you'll love Zodiac Killer!

I swear the DVD I rented has this movie named as Mosquito Man, but that doesn't matter.

To start out I'll have to say this movie was better than I expected. Most of the acting was above average and the film quality was good. The special effects, mainly on the actual "mansquito" were weak, but the blood and guts were good.

The plot was your typical mutation monster plot like werewolves and the fly. It offers a new twist with having the guy who mutates be a convicted killer, and also has an interesting plot with the Doctor slowly mutating and struggling to stay human. A decent plot if you like mutation/horror films.

But the Mansquito was far too powerful. He had this impenetrable armor for some reason, and his blade-like arm was razor sharp. He devoured an entire SWAT team within seconds and survived a giant explosion. I didn't think he should have been so invincible, but it didn't hurt the film too much. There is also the horrible anti-climatic line "Hey Mansquito!" and then a gun shot followed by explosion.

Overall it was a good film if you like horror movies that are more funny than scary.