John Savage’s Maine townie is up there with Stephen Macht in Graveyard Shift. Dean Stockwell is so annoyed to be there. It’s got the vibe of a goofy X-Files episode. The hamster maze sequence is worth the price of admission. I actually found the dated CGI oddly effective, especially since the live bugs are pretty high up there on the comically-harmless-live-animals-presented-as-terrifying. Like I’m skeeved out by roaches but those big ones people keep as pets aren’t that gross. Maybe it’s how sluggish they all seem. That cg queen buggo is real icky. Overall pretty fun.

There’s a fun thing that happens (unintentionally for the most part) where you get that spatial tension usually ascribed to bigger baddies. In slashers, a character with their back to a window invites the killer to burst through and grab them. There’s a macro example in Q: the Winged Serpent. Here, everybody’s drinking from coffee cups so blithely they beg for a mouthful of mondo roach action.

John Savage’s Maine townie is up there with Stephen Macht in Graveyard Shift. Dean Stockwell is so annoyed to be there. It’s got the vibe of a goofy X-Files episode. The hamster maze sequence is worth the price of admission. I actually found the dated CGI oddly effective, especially since the live bugs are pretty high up there on the comically-harmless-live-animals-presented-as-terrifying. Like I’m skeeved out by roaches but those big ones people keep as pets aren’t that gross. Maybe it’s how sluggish they all seem. That cg queen buggo is real icky. Overall pretty fun.

There’s a fun thing that happens (unintentionally for the most part) where you get that spatial tension usually ascribed to bigger baddies. In slashers, a character with their back to a window invites the killer to burst through and grab them. There’s a macro example in Q: the Winged Serpent. Here, everybody’s drinking from coffee cups so blithely they beg for a mouthful of mondo roach action.