This is one of the original movies we watched the first night we ever had cheesey horror movie night, so it was a bit of a blast from the past. I actually had a better opinion of this one the second time around, mainly because I had just bought it on DVD, and the quality was definitely a bit better than on the old piece of crap rental VHS we originally encountered.

Obviously, things like acting aren't meant to factor in to this equation, but man, does Mr. Franc Luz give it his best damn shot. Most of his lines are said with such conviction, that I feel kind of bad for the guy. Everyone else does the standard low budget, one shot deal.

The effects are actually pretty cool. No, not the roaches, they are cute, harmless little guys that sit there and stare at the camera, wondering why they aren't getting paid more for doing this crap. In the story, the roaches become smarter and figure out how to manipulate previously deceased bodies, and use them like a Battle Bot. It actually makes for some cool scenes, especially when one of the human characters gets used in this manner; his body slowly falls apart until he's a walking mass of bone and muscle. There's also a cat/roach hybrid that is similar, but it's not quite as awesome, and apparently the only way they could figure out how to make it menacing was to throw it across the camera view as the humans looked terrified/confused.

There are some pretty good gore effects (except for the stupid stuffed cat thing at the beginning of the movie, that's really bad), so I say definitely rent, if not buy on DVD.

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I remember seeing this one on the USA network back in the dizzle when they had that "Up All Night" jive. It's not creepy because, well I guess if you look at roaches for that long, I would imagine it wears off. I mean, how can roaches possibly be THAT menacing? Unless there is an abnormal infestation (ala Creepshow), there really isn't much more to it in my opinin. SFX weren't too shabby, although I don't exactly like watching roaches smeared on winshields. The cat/roach/possum hybrid-thing wasn't to shabby. The giant Power Range...whatever the hell that thing was..is okay at best. Pretty funny with the scene where someone gets their head split in half. hahahaaaaaahhh well, that's all you're gettin' outt me says Iye *Harrr*

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