For a movie on the Sci-Fi channel last night:
"While trying to find a cure for the West Nile virus, a scientist turns herself and her subject into mutant insects. Adult Situations."
I imagine that situation could get pretty adult. Actually, I watched the first five minutes. A brief summary: Man mutates into giant Mosquito, throws female companion onto couch, and sucks her lifeblood out of her neck with his three-foot proboscis while humping her with his insectedy abdomen. So, they weren't kidding.
This film, for reference, is called Mansquito. Try and see it. It's gotta be better than Saw.
Incidentally, the movie preceding Mansquito on the Sci-Fi channel was called Skeeters, and was about giant mosquitoes invading a small town. Unless they were suggesting (not unreasonably) that the Irish are bloodsucking mutant parasites, I'm not sure what this movie marathon had to do with the holiday.
Posted by FLOG at March 18, 2005 12:28 PMEarlier in the day they were running an Incredible Hulk marathon, presumably because he's green and likes to break everything. He would be the perfect spokesmonster for St. Patrick's Day if his rage was fueled by beer instead of gamma rays.
In the episode I watched Bruce Banner was trying to coax a quick-tempered defensive lineman for a fake NFL team into therapy. In the final scene, the lineman goes off his meds and plots to murder the quarterback of an opposing team during a playoff game. As he's beating the holy hell out of him on the 20 yard line, the Hulk appears out of nowhere and runs onto the field. Players from teams try to stop him but, with the aid of the best special effects low budget '70s television can buy, he blasts through all of them. He tosses the lineman to the ground and knocks over the field goal post to dissuade a "75 players vs. 1 Hulk" brawl.
In short, more Hulk, less Mansquito.
Posted by: Brandon at March 20, 2005 4:02 PM