There are a surprising amount of killer insect movies, whether giant mutants or normal sized but killers. There are movies about giant grasshoppers, as in The Beginning of the End, a giant preying mantis in The Deadly Mantis, giant ants in Them, giant spiders such as the eponymous Giant Spider Invasion, even giant worms in Squirm.
Bees got their turn in The Swarm but they weren’t giants. Well, they were giants in bee-bitten hallucinations, but that shouldn’t count.
Cockroaches get shorter shrift. There a sequence about killer cockroaches in Damnation Alley, and the last story in the anthology Creepshow has a memorable roach attack. The only full movie I can think of about sentient roaches is Joe’s Apartment, and they were the good guys.
So my question is, why no killer mosquito movies?
It could be horrifying! Giant mosquitoes out for blood, draining their victims dry. Why didn’t Irwin Allen or somebody do that?
Cripes, it turns out mosquitoes are the most deadly insects in the real world because they carry diseases that have killed and sickened millions. And they don’t get a movie??? Outrageous!
I remember seeing in passing on TV a very cheesy movie with giant mosquitoes (about the length of a car, if I remember correctly) that could punch their blood-sucking noses through a car roof, I think. I don’t know if it was one of the ones already mentioned, I have no idea what the name was.
So, if we sent a bunch of cockroaches and algae to Mars, hoping to terraform the Red Planet when the algae survives off the nutrients it gleans from the roaches’ corpses, but instead raised a veritable army of muscular, hard-to-kill, eight-foot-tall roach people who hate humans as much as we hate roaches, then you’d be surprised?
Slugs has gastropods covered (not giant, but pretty big ones).
The 1995 *Mosquito *gets points for having Gunnar Hansen “[COLOR=black]Leatherface” from [/COLOR]the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre getting nostalgic when he picks up a chainsaw to fight the giant mosquitos with.
