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George Goldsmith (writer)
Chris Koseluk (writer)
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Release Date:
September 1987 (USA) more
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THEY BREED. THEY HATCH. THEY KILL. Maybe it's just a phase they're going through.
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While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Ivan E. Roth ... The Creature
Steve Railsback ... Detective Jim Bishop

Gwynyth Walsh ... Dr. Rachel Carson

Don Lake ... Elliot Jacobs
Helen Hughes ... Marwella Harbison
Sandy Webster ... Fred Adams
Susan Anspach ... Dr. Judith Glass

Bill Lake ... Paramedic Elliot Jacobs
Peter Van Wart ... Oscar
Don Ritchie ... Orderly #1

Stuart Stone ... Joey
Marsha Moreau ... Marcy
Nathan Adamson ... Tyrone

Sarah Polley ... Ellen
Joy Coghill ... Dede Wilkens
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Also Known As:
Green Monkey
Insect (USA) (video title)
Invasion of the Bodysuckers (UK) (video title)
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96 min
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The name shoulda given it away.., 19 October 2003
Author: bonepilot from NH

This low budget sci-fi tries to incorporate so many elements from "Alien", "The Thing", "Arachnophobia", "Mimic" and "Them", it should be called "Blue Ripoff"!

I know, I know... this film pre-dates "Arachnophobia" and "Mimic", but the "mutated insect-out-of-control, rampaging-through-a-decrepit hospital" idea provides little chills, little suspense, and a lot of sympathy for health insurance litigation. The casting was erratic at best (c'mon...Joe Flaherty and Robin Duke of SCTV fame?) and though the pace was fairly quick in the right places, you still had the sense that too much was crammed into too little a film all too late. The name, "Blue Monkey"?? What's with that? Probably a red herring only the writer and director are aware of.

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