Scott LeBrun As "Mosquito" opens, some alien creatures dump some corpses / trash on Earth. They land in a swamp where the little flying blood suckers promptly do what they do best and feed on the corpses. This naturally causes them to grow to massive size and breed rapidly. The skeeters then descend on the people in the area. Among those who have to team up to save the day are Megan (Rachel Loiselle), an aspiring park ranger, Ray (Tim Lovelace), Megans' boyfriend, Parks (Steve Dixon), a scientist investigating meteor activity, a ranger named Hendricks (Ron Asheton, founding member of the punk rock band The Stooges), and a bank robber named Earl (none other than Gunnar Hansen).Filmed on a modest budget in the woods of Michigan, "Mosquito" is pretty entertaining for this sort of thing. It doesn't really do anything special, but at least it was made in a time before CGI became the effects standard for such movies, and there is some very engaging practical creature effects and stop motion animation. Thanks to a decent pace established by co-writer / director Gary Jones and editors Tom Ludwig & William Shaffer, lively acting by the mostly no name cast, the aforementioned effects work, and an appreciably tongue in cheek approach, "Mosquito" does turn out to be fairly good. Well aware of leading actor Hansens' legacy, Jones and his fellow screenwriters make sure to get a chain saw into his hands, while having him say, "I haven't held one of these in 20 years".Reasonably exciting at times, "Mosquito" leads to a literally explosive finish. And in a nice change of pace, Jones and company don't try to get cute with some sort of final gag, but just end things on a pleasant, agreeable note.There are MUCH worse ways to spend 92 minutes of ones' time. Interested viewers might want to compare this to the thematically similar 1994 movie "Skeeter".Seven out of 10.

kclipper Some really over-the-top and gross gore effects highlight this otherwise badly acted, badly scripted homage to the "nature runs a muck" big-bug sub-genre with some really notable nods to 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". A spaceship crash lands on Earth causing the mosquito population to grow to enormous proportions and devour campers, fisherman and other hapless victims. Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface from the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre') leads a couple of idiot bank-robbers and finds himself battling the bloodsuckers along with a park ranger, her boyfriend, and a meteor chaser, as they destroy the insects with guns, explosives and of course Gunnar's wielding chainsaw. This is classic bad B-movie sub-standard fun, and its full of lousy dialog, cheesy creature effects and the usual sex and gore. Gunnar Hansen wrote the inane script, and director, Gary Jones ultimately goes on to direct more terrible big-bug movies. Don't expect anything extravagant, and you should find it quite entertaining.

Werewolfy Jippie, the first movie I comment!Anyways, this was one baaaaaad bad movie, in fact it was so hilariously bad it just cracked me up and I thought it was good! Okay the beginning is pretty slow. This had some poor acting too but what can you expect? I actually rented this movie because it stood in the news section, it had just been released on DVD, don't know what the crap it was doing in the news section. The first 30 minutes I regretted renting it but after a while it became very entertaining to watch in all of it's marvelous crappyness.So what we got here is basically mutated mosquito's that sucked the blood of an alien that crashed into their swamp. These bastards are huge and they suck humans dry, even makes their eyes pop out! So we got this small gang of people, running, hiding, and fighting these things. A plus on this movie is that one of them is none other than good old Gunnar Hansen, better known as "Leatherface" from 1974's "Texas chainsaw massacre". He even makes a very goofy, incredibly bold reference to his old days as leatherface by grabbing a really huge chainsaw to fight mosquito's with, saying "I haven't held one of these babies in 20 years!" The mosquito's though are a bit of a gag, looks kind of plastic, though they could have been worse... I guess they are acceptable. Anytime the camera follows a mosquito if we look closely, we can see the wire it's hanging from, though this happens a lot in movies, even in some quality ones so we can't hold a grudge against this movie for that old mistake. Though when several mosquito's are seen chasing after the gang the effects are so poor, it's like 8 frames per second, tops, looks more like paper cut outs, flying across the screen, though more like lagging across the screen.Also one thing in a scene that really astonished me. The main character couple stumbles upon a small boat that moves around. If I remember correctly you could hear mosquito buzzing from inside of it. So they lift it and it turns out to be a local park ranger instead. (WTF?)One scene that had me cracking up was when the group hides underground and the black guy (my favorite character except for Gunnar) mentions he was in nam, to which Gunnar responds him too. Then the young guy hasn't really got anything so he just says "Yeah well I was in the boy-scouts!" To this comments everyone actually starts laughing in the movie! It's completely unsuiting, but it was actually kind of fun, one of the funniest things in this movie actually. I don't know, maybe I was exaggerating a bit, rating this a 7, but it's just because it's so damn funny to me! It's worth a look if you enjoy watching B-flicks.

Trixxanna Though it is meant to be a horror it is more the comedy in my eyes, with lines like: "We have to take it with us." "I don't know where your taking it but that thing is not going in my car." "We have to study it" Those how love the bad late night Scifi movies will roll over laughing when they watch this horrible film. The scenes in which people are killed by the bird of prey sized mosquitoes are hilarious in their attempt to be mildly scary. Many who've watched with me say that the usual stereotypical white male and black male roles are reversed in this film.The white leading man tends to want to get far away from the bugs while the black geologist has more of a desire to discover what's going on with the radiation levels.