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I'm Infested!
If you're looking for a laugh and some fun special effects, you have to watch this film.For the record, Ron Howard has nothing on his brother Clint.My only question is, why haven't they released this on DVD?
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One of the few straight-to-video creature films I remember and LOVE!
It's been years since I saw this movie. I only saw it once. It was on a movie rental weekend and the title and cover caught my attention. To this day I still remember this movie and how much I enjoyed it. I have been looking for it on DVD because I can't stop thinking about it from time to time. They don't make creature features like this anymore. TICKS is straight up creepy fun with everything you'd expect and love from a movie like this. It's worthy of a special edition DVD release. Hell, I'll take a simple DVD release just to have it. The only DVD release I could find is a Region 2 (European region). What about people in the US, region 1? Hell, just make a region 0 disc(playable worldwide) to make people like me happy. DAMNIT! GIVE US THE DVD!
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creepy and gooey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is one of the good old sci fi horror movies, i didnt realize that seth green was in it till years after seeing the ending of it on sci fi. i may buy this when i get some money.
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Magnificent 1950's style sci-fi.
I just watched Ticks again, this time with my daughter, and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. It has a USA rating of "R", and although I think it is slightly inappropriate for kids under 15 or so, I took the risk and let my 13 year old watch it without feeling too uncomfortable. The gratituous addition of sexual suggestion and rough language is a problem with so many modern movies that I am beginning to think that they deliberately try get an "R" rating just to pump the ticket sales.
Ticks is a very good 1950's style movie that feels a lot like Them!, which was released in 1954, while employing much more modern directorial and special effects. For a supposedly "B" movie it is very strong and much more polished than I would expect. For example, I liked it much better than The Day After Tomorrow, despite that movie's huge budget and the fact that a high school buddy was in a couple of scenes. If Ticks is a "B" movie, it is a B+++ IMO. To be fair, I think it is better than most top-billed, big-budget selections on the movie shelf.
I only noticed one minor mistake when I could see a microphone briefly at the top of a scene at the veterinarian's office -- and that was actually a fun Easter Egg to find. If you watch the movie, look for that brief microphone sighting! Other than that, there was a disconinuity right near the end of the movie that seemed strange, but maybe it was just me.
I enjoyed the casting, music, sound effects, big budget feeling visual effects, and was stunned by some of the cinematography. I especially liked it for example when the camera would move slowly with the scene panning left to right and the camera facing right, and then the next view with the camera in the same location and same slow movement with the camera facing left. Little continuities like that were awesome. Also awesome was the lack of some "cutesy" camera effects that I tend to find irritating in low budget modern films.
If you are a ham you get treated to a great boat anchor and the Morse code you'll hear is real - not random beeping. The broadcast station that is tuned in after the code sounds like the BBC to me, which is highly appropriate considering the callsign of the director.
Ticks is one of my favorite movies, but I am nutty for 1950's Sci-Fi, and your tastes may vary.
I might have enjoyed the movie more if the characters were a little less stereotypical or not quite as strongly archetyped. If there is to be an archetype, I always enjoy a heroic scientist who saves the World, but this is a movie with troubled teens who must rise past their emotional baggage to survive a crises.
The apocalyptic element of Ticks was rather attenuated while the horror element was hugely amplified. If you are a horror freak you will be amply and efficiently served. Both my daughter and I really jumped on a couple of scenes, and we are jaded enough by horror flicks to yawn through most of them.
If you haven't seen Ticks I strongly recommend it. Watch it at night and make sure the lights are down. It is brilliantly creepy, and I am not just saying that to lick K6BBC's loafers.
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GET TICKED OFF
TICKS is a creepy crawly extravaganza with amazingly good creature effects for an obvious low budget movie. The plot's fairly simple: a marijuana farmer, played with devilish glee by Clint Howard, is using herbal steroids to increase his marijuana output. Some of the steroidal juice however manages to infest a tick larva and soon all the ticks are growing bigger and bigger, nastier and nastier. Enter a group of troubled teens, led by Rosalind Allen and Peter Scolari, who are off for a camping adventure right near the infested area. Soon the ticks are running around chomping on everyone.
For a run of the mill horror movie, this one is above average in its fright scale and in its effects. I expected something much worse and was pleasantly, if not creepily, surprised!!!!
