Pretty Good

An absolute waste of money

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I remember skipping a day from school back in 95 and watched this on VHS. All I can say is this movie had a long lasting effect remembering killer mosquitos than what I would of learnt in class if I'd gone to my grade 9 class that very day. Good times...

Watching low-budget horror films either on VHS rental or on midnight TV was part of growing up. The best part of friday's was that school was letting off and you'd be able to stay up til the crack of dawn watching whatever horror movies were on TV that night. Sometimes you'd watch a classic, but sometimes you'd watch a low-budget gem such as Mosquito. In fact, whenever I think of the late night B-movie from the 90's, Mosquito immediately pops into my head. This film is a B-movie masterpiece! It's got the gore, awesome practical effects, and great action, which is really all you need from a movie about giant mosquitoes! The film is clearly low budget and apparently used local actors such as teachers and lawyers, but also somehow managed to get ahold of horror legend Gunnar Hansen, who does an excellent job here! It also stars the bassist from The Stooges, which is random but still cool! The film is quick and very entertaining, and despite all of its stupidity, it also surpasses pretty much every other film of its kind. The writing is pretty good, some of the acting is good, and even the effects are mostly way better then they need to be. This if the perfect B-movie that goes perfect with beer, buffalo wings, and total darkness at 1am.

As a kid, I would often find myself sitting around the TV late at night on the weekends, eagerly awaiting what new movie would come on. All you could see in the pitch black darkness was the glow of the TV shining onto me eating a sandwich with the clock flashing 12:30 AM. Among my midnight horror favorites where Tremors and its sequel, John Carperter's The Thing, Critters, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 2, and Mosquito.Ahh Mosquito. Its a bad movie I realize, but there's just something about Mosquito that makes it humanly possibly to dislike it. It has such a cheesy, entertaining, awesome charm that creates and aura of coolness. And, in the end, whats better than Gunnar "Leatherface" Hansen attacking puppet mosquitoes with a chainsaw?The plot is simple. An alien satellite crash lands in the Oklahoma swamps and mosquitoes feed on the dead carcass of the aliens. This causes the mosquitoes to grow to human proportions and they start sucking the blood of people in the countryside. Its up to a meteorologist, two lovers, a park ranger, and a criminal to team up and fend off the evil blood swarm of giant mosquitoes for chances of survival.Its a hit and miss movie. The acting is mostly terrible, but I could care less honestly. All of the actors are obviously trying their very best (well, maybe except Mike Hard). Some actors, such as Tim Lovelace, Steve Dixon, and Leatherface himself Gunnar Hansen do a pretty decent job. Ron Asheton gets credibility because he is the bassist for one of the best punk bands ever, The Stooges, and Mike Hard also gets credit for being the vocalist for Sick Of It All, one of Brooklyn's finest punk-metal bands. Unfortunately, both of them are horrendously bad actors and should really just stick to music. Many people diss the effects for being bad, but they have a charm that kinda make them good. Hell, when it comes to the actual animatronics (such as the mosquito on the stove during the climax), I'll even call them good effects! Yep, I called the effects good! Considering that the budget was 200K in 1995, the effects could've been much worse. But most of all, the movie is very entertaining with not a single dull moment in the entire 97 minutes that this film runs for. Every scene has some awesome gore, an explosion, a mosquitoes vs guns fight, Gunnar Hansen doing something badass, and animatronic mosquitoes. Its a blast.If your a fan of low budget films loaded with bullets and gore with a slice of cheese on the side, this is THE film for you. It may be bad, but its awesome. I'd honestly watch Mosquito on a 24 hour loop than just 24 minutes of Battleship or any Transformer movie, and those costed nearly 20 times more to make. Mosquito: Gunnar Hansen vs the giant bugs. AWESOME.P.S.: If you are a fan of the giant mosquito genre, then Don't bother with Skeeter. That one truly sucks. End of story.

Some really over-the-top and gross gore effects highlight this otherwise badly acted, badly scripted homage to the "nature runs a muck" big-bug sub-genre with some really notable nods to 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". A spaceship crash lands on Earth causing the mosquito population to grow to enormous proportions and devour campers, fisherman and other hapless victims. Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface from the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre') leads a couple of idiot bank-robbers and finds himself battling the bloodsuckers along with a park ranger, her boyfriend, and a meteor chaser, as they destroy the insects with guns, explosives and of course Gunnar's wielding chainsaw. This is classic bad B-movie sub-standard fun, and its full of lousy dialog, cheesy creature effects and the usual sex and gore. Gunnar Hansen wrote the inane script, and director, Gary Jones ultimately goes on to direct more terrible big-bug movies. Don't expect anything extravagant, and you should find it quite entertaining.