Insecticidal | |
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Directed by | Jeffery Scott Lando |
Written by | Jeff O'Brien |
Produced by | Ed Brando Sam Eigen |
Starring | Meghan Heffern Rhonda Dent Travis Watters Shawn Bachynski |
Cinematography | Pieter Stathis |
Edited by | Wade Taves |
Music by | Christopher Nickel |
Production companies | Riptide Entertainment Incisor Productions Way Below the Line Productions |
Distributed by | Shoreline Entertainment |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Insecticidal is a 2005 Canadian comedy horror film directed by Jeffery Scott Lando. In the film, a college student performs experiments on insects until a housemate tries to kill them. The insects grow to huge sizes and turn the sorority house into a nest, trying to kill the residents.
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Insecticidal was released on DVD by Hart Sharp Video on June 20, 2006. Hart Video later re-released the film as a part of a 4-disk Gore Pack Box Set. [1]
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Felix Vasquez from Cinema Crazed.com gave the film a mostly positive review, commending the film's strong performances, writing, "Jeffery Lando’s monster mash is firmly entrenched in the schlock arena, it’s a guiltless and shameless piece of exploitation that is so based around the sexy female cast, even the bugs want to strip them naked and mount them." [2] Popcorn Pictures awarded the film a score of 6/10, writing, "A guilty pleasure if there was one, Insecticidal is the silly tonic fans need to down after they’ve sat through the never-ending dreck that the Sci-Fi Channel has been churning out lately. Now who wants to fund me a couple of grand to make Babes Versus Bugs?" [3]
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