Ticks

It’s CREEPY CRAWLIES MONTH at Mondo Mondays, featuring an all-star cast of slimy, slithery B-movie critters looking to make you their next meal!  Wait, what’s that crawling up your leg?????

“They Breed.  They Hatch.   They Kill.”  A bunch of troubled city kids are shipped off to the woods to get down with nature, only to run smack dab into the middle of mutant tick party that will make them wish they’d all stayed home! Watch in awe as an early-‘90s dream cast is forced to bludgeon, dismember and dynamite their way through a gory minefield of rampaging ticks, redneck hicks (whose brilliant plan to grow marijuana in the middle of nowhere using herbal steroids to accelerate plant growth, inadvertently spawning the oversized freaks of the title) and horror movie kicks (gotta love that extremely gooey, over-the-top finale filled with bursting, flaming ticks, all rendered via the magic of classic practical SFX)! Starring Seth Green (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) as a nervous nerd-turned-hero, Alfonso Ribeiro (“Carlton” from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) as a shades-wearing bad seed named Panic, (“See, they call me Panic ‘cause I never do!”), and the ever-amazing, ever-odd Clint Howard, who helpfully tells a giant tick, “Dude, you’re all messed up.” Don’t forget to bring your own tick collar! (Dir. by Tony Randel, 1993, USA, 85 mins., Rated R)