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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
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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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