CICADA! (2018) User Reviews

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[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 25 November 2020]

This is what 2020 was missing. Giant cicada sucking the blood of humans so hard their heads explode. Sure, the effects are low budget and the story of four people coming together in the endtimes - who knew that they would involve giant bugs filled with sugar which somehow turns them into flying bombs - has been told before. But sometimes, you just need to turn your brain off and enjoy the silliness of a movie that dares to have the tagline "Kills humans dead."



Writer/director David Willis understands just how goofy this all is and treats this story with none of the reverence that it deserves. After all, this is a movie where a disgraced baseball player and his exotic dancer girlfriend must come together with a scientist and a bartender to save the world. Or at least Los Angeles, I guess.

There are long stretches of people being destroyed by bugs. Some of you may think to yourself, "This really seems like way too much insect on human violence." I'll answer that by saying that if you watch a movie called Cicada, you shouldn't just expect bug homicide. You should demand it.

Are you going to be a man or a boy.

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 3 December 2020]

Johnny Bash (Jeffrey Ryan Kent), disgraced ball player and friends combat mutant cicadas that are killing people of LA.

Low budget comedy with large bugs on a string. Not really funny.

Guide: F-word. Nudity (Phoenix Askani, Amy Jean Davis?,

Watchable but somewhat irritating horror/comedy creature feature

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 6/10 · 14 November 2020]

Living in the middle of Los Angeles, a disgraced baseball star and his friends discover a mutated strain of gigantic cicada have arisen and are set to attack Los Angeles looking for blood and are forced to protect themselves and the remaining citizens from the creatures before they can mate and spread.

For the most part, this was a pretty fun and silly creature feature. What makes this one so fun is the inherently cheesy and goofy atmosphere which might not be appreciated by all but still has a lot to like. The opening flashback to their unleashing of the toxic chemical that mutates the creatures is the perfect idea of what to expect here as the lack of logic in how to properly handle the situation, a highly obvious low-budget approach that offers up numerous instances of outright lousy CGI and a series of over-the-top situations which favors cheesy jokes in every situation. His constant quips about the belief in the glory days of his playing career despite all evidence to the contrary, cheapskate manner and relationship with his girlfriend manages to continue the cheesy and silly atmosphere and situations present. That leads into the series of fun and cheesy confrontations that emerge here which is what keeps this one fun with all the nice action. The first attacks in the bar and the old stripclub are quite fun with the creatures arriving and ripping their victims apart or carrying them away which is all quite fun with their generally appealing tactics trying to hold them off. With even more to like here involving the numerous shots trying to hold them off around the city with the confrontations at the police office, the abandoned factory and finally the big confrontation at the park with their mating rituals occurring in the background against the battle to stop them from spreading throughout the city. Coupled with tons of cheesy gore and a fun finale, there's quite a lot to like with this one. There are a few issues with this one. As mentioned, the goofy atmosphere is the main problem where it's not entirely funny for everyone out there. The fact that it manages to associate comedy with inherently stupid people making jokes or performing outrageous antics as a general outright rule for how to provide an entry in that genre means that it produces people and situations that are somewhat too stupid to live trying to survive and that can be a detrimental factor if that isn't funny. Combined with the utterly terrible CGI work that's used for the creatures or the gore which is somewhat goofy to the point of being able to distract and pull the viewer out of the scene, this is a big factor for the film even though it's intending to be a comedy with not everything hitting every time.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.