Locusts (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

David Jackson

Writer (WGA):

Doug Prochilo (written by)

Release Date:

24 April 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi | Horror | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

The swarm is the storm.

Plot:

Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered locusts. |

Plot Keywords:

Locust | School Bus | Destruction | Airplane | Farm

Cast

Lucy Lawless	...	Maddy Rierdon
John Heard	...	Dr. Peter Axelrod
Dylan Neal	...	Dan Dyrer
Gregory Alan Williams	...	General Miller (as Greg Alan Williams)
Mike Farrell	...	Lyle Rierden
Natalia Nogulich	...	Lorelei Wentworth
Mike Gomez	...	Secretary Morales
Esperanza Catubig	...	Vivian
Sam Temeles	...	Wyatt Reynolds
Mark Costello	...	Director Rusk
Caroline McKinley	...	Terry Axelrod
Daniel Joseph	...	Dr. Jonas Hanauer
Margaret Lawhon	...	Senator Clauston
Nicolas Roye	...	Jimmy
Andrew Seeley	...	Willy

Also Known As:

Locusts: Day of Destruction (Australia)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M | UK:PG | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | New Zealand:PG | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Company:

VZS Productions

Trivia:

The footage of the doomed airplane's second engine blowing out is a mirror image of the footage for the first engine.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: After the school bus driver goes all out to reassure the kids the locusts would not get into the bus, he stands by and does absolutely nothing when it is discovered he forgot to close the overhead vent and the children are frantically running about shooing away the locusts that do get in.

Quotes:

Maddy: You screw with nature, nature's gonna screw with you.

Movie Connections:

Features Solitaire (1981) (VG)

If this were just a little worse...

For me this fell just short of the 'so bad its good' threshold - if this were just a degree worse, it would be terrific. Makes the TV disaster movies of my youth - remember the one about the Killer Bees and the super-dome - seem inspired. Terrible writing - that Doug Prochilo has quite a career ahead of him - some gloriously uninspired performances - the guy who plays 'The General' acts like a small town anchorman who swallowed a bad actor - and John Heard may have sunk to a new low. Thank heavens for veteran heavy-hitter Mike Farrell, who does magnificently chasing after some cows, or was that a double? Well, I hope it was fun to shoot, I'm happy for all the folks who got their start on this project, and I hope they all got paid real good - can I have my two hours back, now?