All the insects on Earth become wild and attack humans, causing Armageddon.All the insects on Earth become wild and attack humans, causing Armageddon.All the insects on Earth become wild and attack humans, causing Armageddon.
Ralph Jesser
- Lieutenant Gordon
- (as Rolf Jesser)
Mike Danning
- Aircraft Captain
- (as Mike Daneen)
- Director
- Kazui Nihonmatsu(non-Japanese releases)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe film received the comedic riff treatment by the Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988) crew in "Cinematic Titanic" under its original U.S. title "War of the Insects".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinematic Titanic: War of the Insects (2011)
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Startling imagery, phantasmagoric plot mash pp
I'm rating this movie higher than it probably deserves for a couple of reasons. Firs, one has to admire the audacious, lurching combination of genres and plot lines, hallucinatory in their variations. Secondly, the final two shots of this movie are stunning. I won't give them away, although I wish I could because they are just some of the coolest final images of any science fiction movie of that era, and make the entire movie worthwhile.
All of these impressions reflects some advice I would give if you choose to watch this movie. I don't think one ought to watch it literally, as a plot-driven film, because doing so could be frustrating given some of the illogic and seeming randomness of the events. Instead, I ultimately watched it for the imagery, the drunken, staggering wackiness of it all, and the utterly fascinating cultural aspects of the movie (for example, wow, do Americans not come off particularly well in this flick!).
I would also recommend Genocide for those who enjoy eco-horror or eco-scifi, such as Frogs, Phase IV, Bug (the Bradford Dillman flick), Food of the Gods, and even classic giant irradiated "bug" movies such as Them and Tarantula, which were among the first eco-scifi movies.
All of these impressions reflects some advice I would give if you choose to watch this movie. I don't think one ought to watch it literally, as a plot-driven film, because doing so could be frustrating given some of the illogic and seeming randomness of the events. Instead, I ultimately watched it for the imagery, the drunken, staggering wackiness of it all, and the utterly fascinating cultural aspects of the movie (for example, wow, do Americans not come off particularly well in this flick!).
I would also recommend Genocide for those who enjoy eco-horror or eco-scifi, such as Frogs, Phase IV, Bug (the Bradford Dillman flick), Food of the Gods, and even classic giant irradiated "bug" movies such as Them and Tarantula, which were among the first eco-scifi movies.
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- War of the Insects
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.45 : 1
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