A
bunch of research biologists developed a
species of Judas bugs engineered to mimic
and overrun the diseased roaches in their
grubby habitat as they threatened to
decimate the child population of New York
City four years ago.
Their plan worked but now suddenly to
mimic their next prey which happens to be
humans.
People thought they were destroyed but
some of them survived and the mutated
one's have a new metamorphoisis
threatening to take over.
A school teacher named Remi Panos (Alix
Koromzay) who is having trouble with her
job and finding the right guy is pitted
against these creatures with two of her
students as they intruded on their nest
which happens to be their school and are
trapped by battling these things.
A film taken in a
different direction alltogether and real
disappointing typical bad sequel.
The film at times still has a dark edge
to it like the first one but otherwise
the story in this one was a complete
waste of time.
However, there were good effects with the
giant cockraches and it was cooler how
more human they looked too.
The acting is
nothing special in this film at all. Lead
actress Alix Koromzay is
very average with her part as a school
teacher trying to find mr. right and
quite frankly she is not my first choice
at all.
Bruno Campos doesn't do much
better himself and doesn't make a
convincing detective.
However young actor Gaven
E. Lucas seems to do fine as a young
school student and shows a nice charm to
his character.
Supporting actor Jody Wood does
well as a sleazy type wise ass detective.
An asian man on
the street in the pouring rain is slashed
across the chest.
There's a skeletal corpse with the flesh
torn off of it.
There is also a corpse hanging from a
telephone wires with his face torn off.
A woman is stabbed by a cockroach in the
stomach.
Another cockroach stabs a detective in
the sides of his head and blood oozes
out.
We also have slimy gore effects from the
cokroaches.
Jean
de Segonzac doesn't meet up to this
sequel but he does show some interesting
scenes at times but others were very
stale.
He has great camera shots around the
rough city of Manhattan and the shadows
where the giant cokroaches are standing
which makes you wonder if its a cockroach
or a person like in the first one.
There is a scene that
really makes you jump with a dialogue
involving Koromzay and small
actor Brian Leckner when he
tries to ask her out on a second date and
she refuses then closes the door and then
he pushes it hard open.
You wonder if something bad is going to
happen but it doesn't still it gives you
an intimidating impression.
Next we have another small actor Paul Schulze
showing good horny expressions on his
face in a restaurant with Koromzay and
trying to take her home with him as the
direction for a bad date between them
looked fairly good. Then we get some
surprise reactions from him when he is
hit a few times on the street out of the
blue by a giant cockroach and then
dragged up to a building.
We have a nice first time dialogue with Koromzay
and Gaven E. Lucas
alone in an apartment together when Lucas'
character is concerned about her job at
the school.
When we have the cockroaches invading the
school with the stomping and Koromzay,
Lucas and Estes
running away, Segonzac tried to
make it look terrifying but yet he fails
to do so.
There is a great camera shot with a giant
cockroach pitted against Koromzay.
He directed Koromzay
terrifically well after she is injured
from a giant cockroach attacking her and
she is losing conciousness which looks
well performed.
Her battle between a giant cockroach in
disgusie inside her apartment is the best
work with Segonzac.
We have a nice orchestral
composition by Walter Werzowa as he knows how to
do a descent score for the film.
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