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Cicada!
USA 2018
produced by Jeffrey Ryan Kent, Beau Crawford, David Willis, Jon Tucker, David Aguilera, Tom Diridon (executive), Nasser Othman (executive) for Ow My Neck Productions
directed by David Willis
starring Jeffrey Ryan Kent, Cassandra Hein, Beau Crawford, Mike Nielsen, Lawrence A. Mandley, Jose Rosete, Robert Rexx, Dave Bean, Sam Graci-Glazer, Nathan Alexander, Shannon Torrence, Graham Mackie, Tommy Germanovich jr, Amy Jean Davis, Anne McDaniels, Precious Gilbert, Aaron McLane, Adam Deyoe, Dane Elcar, Gerardo F. Santos, Greg Minihan, Merik Woodmansee, Michael Malerba, David Aguilera, Andrew Amicangelo, Nicole Anthony, Jessica Arbogast, Phoenix Askani, Ruben Briones, Shawn Michael Clankie, Gabi Conti, Andrew Curtis, Sadie Curtis, Kaleb DeLeon, Raphael Dirani, Tom Diridon, Maria Flores, Eric Gosselin, Ananias Johnson, Kari Kiyokane, Ralph Mayer, Susan Montenegro, Meagan Phillips, Aaron Pont, Daniel M. Sandoval, Greggory Santizo, Rick Santizo, Maryam Sheikholeslami, J.T. Warren, Ivan Watts, Jason Whitton, David Willis, Brian Woods, Tom Yamamoto, Marley Yanow
written by David Willis, music by Paul Grylys Gillis, visual effects supervised by Aaron McLane
review by Mike Haberfelner
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In 2001, the parks in and around Los Angeles are swarmed by a certain
strain of cicada that only shows itself every 17 years. Only this time
around, some of the cicadas are sprayed with some experimental fertilizer
and immediately turn deadly - and one of them kills young Johnny's (Sam
Graci-Glazer) beloved baseball coach (Dave Bean) ...
17 years later: Johnny (as an adult played by Jeffrey Ryan Kent) has
since become a baseball pro but has eventually fallen from grace, is now
jobless and pretty much lives off his stripper girlfriend Cindy (Cassandra
Hein). And while the two of them are having a drink at their friend
Randy's (Beau Crawford) bar, a nerdy madman, Nelson (Mike Nielsen)
stumbles in, screaming about giant cicadas attacking the city. Randy's on
the verge of throwing him out when a peek out the window shows Nelson's
exactly right, cicadas one to two feet in length, are roaming the streets
and attacking everyone in sight, killing them for their bone marrow. Now
fortunately, Nelson turns out to be one of the leading experts on cicadas,
so that gives the little group a fighting chance, but it seems wherever
they turn to, be it the university or the police headquarters, the cicadas
having reached there first, and what's especially dangerous about them is
that they're explosive now, too. There's only one small chance, to catch
and kill them all in their mating cycle, when they're the most vulnerable
and least agressive. But how could our four heroes even hope to catch them
all?
Now it has to be said, Cicada! is not the most refined
piece of monster cinema, its story is predictable, the character arcs are
clichéed (from the washed up star finding redemption to the nerd becoming
a hero), some of the dialogue's completely corny, and the effects betray a
modest budget - but judging Cicada! by any of this would be wrong
as it was never supposed to be taken seriously. Sure, it's a spoof in
broad strokes with not all of the comedy working as well as it should, but
its combination of gross-out horror and gross-out humour gives it definite
party movie quality, and should be a perfect watch for an evening with a
few mates and a few beers for sure.
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