Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Leofwine_draca LOCUSTS: THE 8TH PLAGUE is yet another cheesy monster flick that comes courtesy of the Sci Fi Channel. I might have enjoyed it better if the special effects had been even halfway decent, but instead they're a mix of plasticky models or stupid CGI insect swarms which look ridiculous. The film features Jeff Fahey as the usual corporate villain who genetically engineers some killer locusts, which escape and terrorise the locality. Julie Benz, of RAMBO fame, co-stars alongside David Keith. Sadly, this is the kind of film content to go through the motions without ever trying anything new for itself, and in the end it becomes quite boring as a result.

GL84 Following the release of experimental locusts, an entomologist and a government doctor race to find a way of stopping the ravenous creatures before they eat through the US and consume the entire world.This turned out to be quite an enjoyable if not overly spectacular killer bug effort. One of the better elements here is the fact that there's a lot done here to make these creatures seem deadly and vicious, which is what should be done in these kinds of films. The early attacks here are where this one really gets good, as not only is the scenes showing their control in the hive provide this one with a solid base in determining the fear here which makes the attacks that much more fun. This one manages to get a lot of quite fun and thrilling encounters here with the bugs including the farm swarm, the attack on the family at the campground and the rather thrilling rescue from the area later on being the main efforts. The film's two biggest set-pieces are also great action scenes, as first the discovery and subsequent failure to kill them off in the caves results in the swarm attacking with ferocity while the second scene is the splendid amusement park assault that is quite fun for how cruel it is in dealing with the trapped patrons. That this one also manages to get some rather impressive facets of their biology into this one is another big plus, making it smarter than it really should how they attack and behave. Along with a great finale, these are enough to hold this up against the negatives in here which starts with the whole point of creating the insects. There's very little here that makes sense about how the creatures came into being since the motivation is rife with problems and chances to fail which it does here. This also points out the rather clichéd notion of the film's storyline, which is pretty simplistic and doesn't do a whole lot here to offer up many different twists and turns as this one follows along pretty much all the expected paths to its conclusion that would be expected in such an effort. Along with the pretty lame and incredibly unrealistic amount of CGI found throughout here, these are what keep this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language, and children-in-jeopardy.

TheLittleSongbird I have made no secret of disliking SyFy's movies, but I still watch them to see if they ever make anything tolerable. They've made a few, but a vast majority of them are not worth bothering with. And that is the case with Wild Swarms, which has everything I hate about SyFy and more. The acting is really uninspired, even from Jeff Fahey, who has saved a bad movie more than once but not this time, with David Keith trying and failing to give credibility to a one-dimensional and stereotypical a villain as you could get and Dan Cortese a wooden lead. The rest of the characters are also clichéd and none of them are likable in any way. Wild Swarms is also badly made, I have often criticised SyFy's films for having choppy or hackneyed editing, Wild Swarms's editing is an insult to those words, while the special effects, of which the film is heavily reliant on, are terrible never once coming across as believable. The dialogue is cheesy and stilted, the direction is lazy and the story is predictable, often ridiculous and with all the morality I am going to set a task to find a more preachy SyFy movie than this one, my prediction is that I'm never going to find it. Overall, an awful movie that is difficult to begin criticising as everything is wrong with it. 1/10 Bethany Cox

billwilliams2002 Why this piece of cinematic effluent ever made it past the napkin it was written on is beyond me. I am almost at a loss for words to describe just how horrific it was. Think of every bad cliché you could ever put in a movie and it was in this one... twice.The acting was terrible, including a scene where the scientist trying to eliminate the swarm, has to watch her father (who was, of course, responsible for creating the super-bugs in an amazingly original twist in movie plot-line history) die in a terrific explosion, then manages to conjure up a look akin to that one might give to the meal selections in Craft Services. The editing was beyond embarrassing; at one point a group of scientist-onlookers (who have for some reason elected to stay in an area the locusts are being deliberately drawn to so they can be eliminated), duck and cover from a helicopter that has not yet started to crash but will in the scene immediately following. The CG is laughable... at various points throughout the movie the locusts (who are supposedly uniform in size and color) range from a low of about 3" in apparent length to a high of about 8" and are either brown, maroon or pink depending on the particular scene.The real-world physics are... stupid. Just stupid. Locusts chasing a crop duster, flying at full-speed, and not only keeping up but gaining on it. Sure. Right now the world's fastest insect (a locust) tops out at 20mph... this writer has his swarm exceeding 100. Seriously. Go back to school. To echo the other user who commented on this page, don't waste your time.