Problem teens in Los Angeles join an inner-city wilderness project in and attempt to get back in touch with life’s priorities, led by do-gooders Holly and Charles. When they get to the campsite, they begin having problems adjusting to the wild life, particularly local marijuana growers using herbal steroids to accelerate plant growth, and the mutated ticks that the leaky steroid system has created.
What a great cast. Ami Dolenz, Seth Green, Clint Howard, Alfonso Ribeiro, (Clint and Ron Howard’s father) Rance Howard and Peter Scolari. Can’t have one much better. The gore was great, the blood was plentiful, the movie was campy and cheesy and it was a very fun watch! I can sense that a lot of gore was cut from the film, I just hope that one day this makes it to DVD uncut. It’s such an underrated film in many ways, I mean– K.N.B. Studios did the special make-up effects, so that’s pretty impressive alone, right?
The story was cheesy, and not very interesting, but alot made up for it. It’s not a good story if you think about it and I’m not a huge “killer critter” fan aside from movies like Squirm, SLUGS and Piranha. The movie goes from fun to boring in matter of second. Like I mentioned before, if this movie was an all-out gore-fest it would make it a lot easier to enjoy. There’s one part in particular where Alfonso Ribiero’s character morphs into a tick– classic shit!
Probably one of the more underrated movies of the genre. I thought the directing and gore was superb. Ami Dolenz did another great job, and I thought Alfonso Ribeiro’s death was great. I used to have the biggest crush on Ami Dolenz when I was younger, and man… she still is hot. The ticks were a bit disgusting, oozy and just downright nauseating, but small things like that make up for bad writing and bad acting from a few of the cast. I am not a fan of bugs and they really get to me… so yeah, this movie gave me the creepies.