Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

I remember skipping a day from school back in 95 and watched this on VHS. All I can say is this movie had a long lasting effect remembering killer mosquitos than what I would of learnt in class if I'd gone to my grade 9 class that very day. Good times...

This is by far the 2nd best made for TV movie I have ever seen (behind Tremors 2). The acting sucks. YES IT DOES. But the effects aren't half bad! The 'paper' mosquito's appear when they attack the RV. I call them 'paper' mosquito's because they look like paper! The clay-mation mosquito's look OK, but they're out of place. But the Robotic mosquito's are GREAT! Such as the mosquito on top of the stove, and when the meteorologist is about to die at the end. I don't know why people say this movie has bad effects.Back to the acting. It's horrid. But only by some people. Gunnar Hansen delivers a fine performance while Ron Asherton is not so well. Not much more I can say.The plot is really...um...strange. The mosquito's grow big because they drink alien blood. Yah. Alien blood. Why not just be effected by a nuclear power plant or something? But an ALIEN? Hmmm....Only 4 people on screen die. But they're great. Blood gushes out. Great stuff. When that one dude gets stabbed in the eye by the mosquito's needle, thats awesome. When Junior's head goes KA-BOOM, that was cool. The gore makes you cringe. And thats a good thing.The music theme. Also horrid. In a bad way. When Rex is running away from the mosquito in the forest, the background music make it seem like its funny. Along when Earl goes down into the basement. It's like violins from a comedy movie. Over all, great movie. Watch it. No, really. Just watch it!

One wonders what the producers were thinking of when they set up the premise of " Mosquitos become infected by sucking the blood of an alien crew who have crashed in to the Deep South causing them to grow " . If you're gonna have aliens in a movie then surely giant mutating mosquitos are unnecessary to the plot ? Likewise why introduce aliens if they're just going to kick start the plot ? Why just not use a chemical leak ?The latter point draws to your attention that this is a very retro type of horror movie with giant insects killing people that we'd often see in the 1950s . Perhaps that's why the aliens were needed ? so that the audience would be made aware that it's not really a film that should be taken seriously and is in fact camp B movie nonsense The characters are all clichéd stereotypes such as hunky and courageous male lead , nice girl establishment heroine , noble ethnic minority figure , nasty redneck criminal , comedy character with nearly everyone else marked down as red shirt who's just there to be killed . It's a somewhat cheesy , perhaps too cheesy to be a total success as this type of undemanding film and it is very predictable but it's hardly the worst film I've seen over the last few weeks on the Zone Horror channel and the producers and the rest of the crowd should feel a sense of pride with that

This is a film for people who, like me, have seen the art in really poor film-making. Some films really do make an art form of the tacky storyline and cheesy script....this is a classic of the genre. It is full of humorous references for the true horror junkie and doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. A film like this could go two ways...it could either try to take itself seriously and unless masterfully achieved it'll fall flat on its face, or it can step back and take a good, long, honest look at what its really got going for it and try to pull it off with its tongue firmly in its cheek. With a little more audacity some of the deaths could have achieved cult status (one certainly springs to mind)...but hey, with such a vast array of acting talent (Gunnar Hansen of Texas Chainsaw fame being the shining light, and Steve Dixon as Parks also doing an admirable job) and plenty of hillbilly gags, the obligatory pervert-cum-hero this is a must watch for the truly awful film fan...if you liked this watch mutator; awful film, great deaths.