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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780788811739 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC ISBN: 0788811738 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: March 04, 2003 Running Time: 105 minutes Sales Rank: 8535 Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: August 22, 1997
Amazon.com: An ultracreepy blend of horror and fantasy (think of it as Beauty and the Bugs) from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (Cronos) about giant cockroaches in the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan. Like its DNA-altered spawn (the title refers to the way some insects evolve to resemble their predators), Mimic is not your everyday bug picture, but a more poetic (though quite gruesome) sort of film, literally crawling with bizarre, striking images. In this case, the mutant bugs are not the result of evil atomic experiments (as in Them!), but are the unexpected side effect of work done by an entomologist (Mira Sorvino) and her Center for Disease Control officer husband (Jeremy Northam), who, in a last-ditch effort to control a roach-carried disease epidemic that was killing children, released a genetically altered form of sterile cockroaches beneath the city. They stopped the virus, but... Also starring Charles Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham, and Josh Brolin. --Jim Emerson
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Rating: - It's not a mammal
In 1997, Guillermo del Toro was not a rising legend in the movie business -- in fact, he was a relative newbie.
So obviously the sci-horror flick "Mimic" was an attempt to forge roads in the rough world of Hollywood. It's a flawed gem among horror movies -- it builds up a sense of slow, shadowy horror based on what could happen if humans play God, loaded with symbolism and eerie clicking noises. But it also has an insane climax, and Del Toro's direction often gets buried under the scares.
In the near future, children are ravaged by a cockroach-carried disease. Dr. Susan ... Read More
Rating: - It has some suspenseful moments. It's worth watching once.
It has some suspenseful moments. It's worth watching once. However, there are a lot of familiar scenes I've already seen in other movies. It's worth watching once.
Rating: - great movie!
i absolutly LOVE this movie! the reason (s) that i like it so much are the following:
-its acctually scary
-great special affects
-great acting
-OK plot (though, its got lots of plot holes...........but who cares!)
i apsolutly reccomend this movie for tose who enjoyed such movies as:
-arachnophobia (spelling?)
-arachnid
-and other creepy crawly movies
Rating: - Mimic Review
Mimic is an excellent and well-made horror film. It especially has a very fine and suspenseful musical score by Marco Beltrami.
Rating: - BUGS GALORE and GORY
I had to chuckle about the comment of bringing religion into it? I never even noticed or gave a thought other than the way the "priest" was pulled through a sewer hole he didn't exactly fit through.
An old relic of an abandoned church? or where ever the insides lead to.
To me the very high light was of the child with the clicking spoons and his mistaken idea that he had found a friend.
Sorvino was a pretty, conscientious leading lady played as a sympathetic
character that became better as the movie progressed. Why would they used human DNA in the mixed genetics ... Read More
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