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In his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.

When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.—CommanderBalok

The scientist and family man Dr. Simon Kress has been researching the development of a species using eggs found in a sample of Martian soil. When one bug escapes from the laboratory breaking the security of the facility, the project is shut-down by the government due to its hazard and Dr. Simon is fired. Dr. Simon expected to win the Nobel Prize and steals 275 g of the sample ground, bringing it to the barn of his property and developing new species. He hides the truth from his wife Cathy and shares the secret with his smart son Josh. Along the days, Simon realizes how intelligent the creatures are and feels like a god since they seem to worship him. However, when Simon is bitten by one subject, his irresponsible behavior changes to insanity, jeopardizing his family, his friend and mankind.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

After his five year research project is canceled - one of the small Martian organisms he was working on nearly escapes from the lab - Dr. Simon Kress takes one of them home and continues his work in a home lab. The experiments had their origins in testing how Earth life interacts with Martian soil. What they found were tiny eggs in the Martian soil and Kress' experiments found the necessary conditions for gestation. With the project now terminated, Kress steals 265 grams of Martian soil and some of the new life forms he created, called Sandkings. He believes that the tiny creatures are beginning to show signs of intelligence. The creatures soon come to recognize him but when he is stung by one of them, he begins to transform and the creatures turn on him.—garykmcd