Mansquito: exactly what it sounds like
I rarely watch movies on tv, but sometimes that rare gem of a movie comes along that makes me give up two hours of a Saturday afternoon. Such is Mansquito, a Sci-Fi Channel original (red flag!) cautionary tale of experimenting with mutant mosquitos.
Sadly I missed the first part of the movie, but the gist of the movie is this: a man is bitten by a mutant mosquito in some sort of explosion, and thus mutates into a 7 foot mosquito. Or mansquito, if you will. He roams around the city sucking the blood out of anyone he comes across, including a group of homeless people and the entire SWAT team, while being chased around the city by cops who are trying to put an end to his reign of terror.
Did I mention that a sexy scientist (which is really more science fiction than a 7 foot mutant mosquito) who happens to be the girlfriend of one of the cops was also injured in the explosion and is slowly turning into a mosquito herself? Well, she is. And mansquito wants to mate with her! Hot. But before mansquito and womansquito (it just doesn't have the same ring to it) can get it on, boyfriend cop has to find a way to kill mansquito.
Highlights from the rest of the movie:
-We learn that mansquito is impervious to bullets. Just as all mosquitos are. Clearly the way to go was building a giant fly swatter, or luring him into a bug zapper.
-Mansquito is able to drink several times his own body weight in blood.
-Eventually mansquito tires of merely drinking blood, and resorts to ripping off limbs, crushing and/or slicing off heads, and throwing people out windows.
I won't give away the end of the movie, but let me just say that either I'm really smart, or sci-fi original movies are really dumb (and the odds are much better on the latter).

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