Bug Buster (1998)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Lorenzo Doumani

Writer:

Malick Khoury (writer)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

There's something creepy in the neighborhood...

Plot:

Killer cockroaches swarm a small lakeside community.

Plot Keywords:

Bug | Lake | Cleavage | Bugs | Towel

Cast

Randy Quaid	...	General George S. Merlin
Brenda Epperson Doumani	...	Dr. Laura Casey
Katherine Heigl	...	Shannon Griffin
James Doohan	...	Sheriff Carlson
George Takei	...	Dr. Hiro Fujimoto
Meredith Salenger	...	Veronica Hart
Ty O'Neal	...	Deputy Bo
David Lipper	...	Steve Williams
Bernie Kopell	...	Gil Griffin
Anne Lockhart	...	Cammie Griffin
Downtown Julie Brown	...	Katie Cunning
Dennis Fimple	...	Judediah
Allen Lulu	...	Lodge clerk
Cliff Emmich	...	Uncle Buck
Charles Glenn	...	Governor

Also Known As:

Blatella (USA) (working title)
Some Things Never Die (UK) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and gore, crude humor, and sensuality

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Big Bear Lake, California, USA

Company:

Shoreline Entertainment

Quotes:

[Three separate groups meet up in a mine]
General George S. Merlin: For an abandoned mine, it sure is crowded.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Ghost Busters (1984)

Silly, ridiculous, campy fun for a poorly made, clumsy comedy.

Since no one made a review for this movie, I decided to go ahead with it. It's this story about a pesticide that makes the fishes at the idyllic Mountview town's lake give birth to roaches. I know you're laughing by now. The director's wife is here as the town doctor who communicates with former Star Trek George Takei over the phone, he plays a bug scientist of some sort. Another Star Trek survivor is James Doohan as the town sheriff. Bride of Chucky's Heigl who is terrified of bugs moves to the town with dad Kopell of Love Boat and mom Lockhart of Battlestar Gallatica (and daughter of June!) who buy a hotel by the lake. She is wooed by orphan Lipper before they witnesses several people dying gruesome deaths as the roaches and larvae burrows themselves into the corpses and lay eggs or whatever. The whole story is a bit confusing as you try to put it together. I think the pesticide causes the bugs to mutate and so the roaches just kill and stuff while their "mother bug" somehow grows to ten feet high. The special effects are lousy, the acting are okay, the direction is poor and the editing is clumsy, there are some laughably bad scenes including the "mother bug" attacking James Doohan who fail to convince us that he's being attacked (the "mother bug" was computer generated). Well the whole film was clumsy anyway. Randy Quaid adds more comic bits to the laughter quotient of the film and manages to steal each scene he's in as a bug exterminator who's ready to kick some bug ass! - as he says in his cheap commercials. It's good, giddy, silly, and ridiculous campy fun especially if this horror/comedy's poorly made and clumsy. With the rating system still not past five votes, I give mine now...it's 4 out of 10.