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You may be wondering why my review title is Big Bad Bugs when the image on your left is for The Vortex. Well, I must try to explain myself here, but this is just one more case showing how hard it can be to get your film noticed while working in Hollywood. In 2012, Supernova Films Inc. began shooting The Vortex with the intention of having it aired on SyFy Channel. However, the channel took another direction with its programming and scheduling and left The Vortex behind. After years it resurfaced as Big Bad Bugs. It has been revamped, re-edited and is meant to hit domestic DVD shelves later in this year.
As for Big Bad Bugs, it was written and directed by Peter Paul Basler with Cary Anderson. Produced by Damiano Tucci (Sunset Tan) and Antonio Sciafani (So You Think You Can Dance), the film includes cinematography by Alexander Yellen of 3-Headed Shark Attack. The film stars Jack Plotnick (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Joan of Arcadia, Reno 911), Sarah Lieving (The Beast of Bray Road, The Dunwich Horror, Super Shark), Camden Toy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2), Randy Clark (Holla 2, Saturday Night Love), Kris Wheeler(Chicago Fire, Open House), Ted Jonas, Bo Kane, Devon Ogden ,Randy Clark Steve Silvere and Tyler McGee.
In the Middle East, when a convoy of American Soldiers vanishes without a trace, it triggers deployment of a Special OPS team on a search and rescue mission. While there are mega scorpions, giant spiders and oversized snakes – these were created after an ex-government scientist opened up another dimension. Meanwhile, the team needs to find out how to close down this wormhole, in case they have enough time to actually accomplish that.
Whoever reads my reviews is well aware that I can’t resist CGI creature-features although admittedly; such films do not always make good use of our eyes and minds. Fortunately for me though, Big Bad Bugs is something different altogether – pun intended – with several big reasons why it may be more appealing to those who enjoy action-horror over say Sharknado. First off, as already mentioned above, Big Bad Bugs has tons of CGI creatures and I feel like the quality of the computer made monsters here are slightly better than some other SyFy Channel-bound movies. For this title specifically, there are significant differences in visual quality between close-up shots (which look great) and long shorts being shots that are further away (which do not).
The level of hokeyness displayed is also varied, some giant bugs look great while others look like clip-art. I can only imagine how much fun the cast and crew had performing in front of a green screen or just acting with enormous creatures that weren’t really there.
Big Bad Bugs, unlike other films in its genre, does not try to be very serious. I’m sorry, but there are a lot of other movies in this category which try to take themselves too seriously while they feature terrible performances and include sharks being thrown by tornadoes or fights between robotic snakes and cyber scorpions. In the case of Big Bad Bugs, I think the men and women working behind the scenes understood their project completely and decided to make it campy yet funny rather than stuffing nonexistent suspense into the viewers’ throats. That was why I had more fun watching this movie by laughing with it instead of at it. Big Bad Bugs also chose a definite route and stuck with it, meaning in terms of genre. This is entirely an scifi-thriller one that has been thoroughly developed as compared to “Oh my God! There’s a giant hamster attacking the city! No time to explain!” Peter Paul Basler and Cary Anderson brought many layers on this baby like radiation, alien crystals and wormholes. And let me not forget sandstorms that vaporize people AND machines.
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