Review of Black Swarm (2007) by Jason D — 07 Feb 2009

Black Swarm is another entry in the low budget Maneater Series which provides cheap B-movie Nature-run amok horror. From the start, they were real stinkers, but gradually, they gotten better and better, and Black Swarm is no exception.

The film is about a mother and daughter who move to a small, quaint town just before the invasion of genetically-mutated super bees built for the army (of course) picks up steam. The bugs have already been stinging people and turning them into zombie-esque drones that stagger about town until barfing out additional bees to cause a ruckus.

It's up to the sexy mom (whose also the new cop in town), the sexy entomologist whose been called in to help figure things out (though she bares a secret of her own), and the local sexy exterminator, who happens to be the twin brother of the new girl's dead husband.

Yeah, there's some soap opera nonsense put into it. The acting is slightly alright, but what is TRULY awful is the hilariously stupid dialog ("Lucy...you got some 'sploding to do!!").

What truly saves this movie is the great Robert Englund who plays the mad scientist that developed the bees and is now trying to stop them. He was terrific in this very comical "horror" film! Not bad.