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I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

At the opening of the film we see a crew storing waste canisters in an old mining compound. We later find that it stores some sort of polluted, toxic substance that increases the size of mosquitoes who frequented it and will threaten the remaining citizens of a sleepy desert community of Clear Sky(I'm guessing in Arizona or New Mexico). Besides the threat of mosquitoes is a land developer named Drake(Jay Robinson)who is paving the way for a future suburbia settlement. Drake wishes for farmers around him to give up their lands, one of those being Clay Crosby(John Goff)whose wife has recently passed and livestock are mysteriously dying off. His daughter, Sarah(Tracy Griffith)returns for the funeral and strikes up a past relationship with Deputy Roy Boone(Jim Youngs, all mullet and muscle..but little real acting skill other than standing tall and stiff)who sees that something's not right in Clear Sky. He calls in geologist Gordon(William Sanderson)to check the water around the area and he soon discovers that what is killing not only the livestock but citizens as well is polluted water. Yet, when he informs his findings to his superior it falls on deaf ears..his superior is in Drake's hip pocket so reporting such an environmental disaster will seemingly prove difficult. What's even worse is Roy's superior, Sheriff Ernie Buckle(Charles Napier)is aware of Drake's crooked ways but turns a blind eye to all his underhanded activities. The polluted water that is killing the livestock and poisoning the citizens was carefully hidden only to Drake and Ernie and somehow Roy must find a way to make things right. Roy will have trouble on his hands as Drake has hired goons who will attempt to take his life.A lot of plot does convolute what is essentially a B-movie creature feature. Some characters are kind of left hanging such as Michael J Pollard's weirdo Hopper, a collector who has this make-shift museum and feeds blood to his pet mutant mosquito. What we kind of forget about is that he has a live one that ISN'T dead. Then we never really get a resolution to villainous Drake, though it is quite clear he might face ruin if those who stand in his way such as Roy and Sarah aren't silenced. Thankfully, Roy has a loyal partner, a Native American named Hank(the reliable Eloy Casados)who sticks by him. The bugs themselves are a bit of a let-down, but expected as such with the low-budget I'm sure the filmmakers were saddled with. The story, though, plays the silly premise almost completely straight and the story about the citizens losing their community slowly to death and change is really sad. The location of the desert around the plot assists the film in my opinion. I'm a fan of "mutant bug" films so I cut this exercise some slack. If you like these sci-fi/horror creature features which came out in the early 90's during the made-for-video boom then this should be a treat. George "Buck" Flower has an amusing cameo as a mosquito victim.

A greedy real estate developer(Jay Robinson)plans on turning placid desert into a massive subdivision of a small community. Things get real ugly when a swarm of mosquitos chow down on an illegal toxic waste dump. Sheriff Deputy Roy Boone(Jim Youngs)gets concerned with the mounting body count of citizens and animals. His boss, Sheriff Buckle(Charles Napier)is not too concerned, because he is secretly involved in a shifty business relationship with the corrupt developer. The giant, bloodsucking mosquitos put strain on a sexy coroner(Saxon Trainer)and a respected, but confused scientist(William Sanderson). Special effects are pretty lame. Tracy Griffith plays the winsome love interest of Deputy Boone. And its hard to ignore the town idiot played by Michael J. Pollard. The total sum is SKEETER kind of...sucks!

I'm simply amazed at the low rating of this movie. Sure it's not high fare and has some low-end special effects, but "Skeeter" is a well acted and well paced "Big Bug" flick.First and foremost we have the sexy Tracy Griffith (see her in First Power) as female lead, that is enough for any one to watch. But then we have some of Hollywoods great character actors Charles Napier, Jay Robinson (what a great voice), William Sanderson (remember him as the psycho sniper in the episode called BLOOD of X-files) and lastly Michael J. Pollard.Sure, director Clark Brandon isn't a horror director, and directed more episodes of The Facts of Life than he cares to confess. But I feel he does a good job here. He knows how to direct good actors and bring out their best. I know the special effects aren't that special by today's standards. But I think they are great considering the obscene over use of CGI in the genre today.All in all, SKEETER is a good, well paced and expertly acted Big Bug movie and pays decent homage to the old Big Bug flicks of the 50's. If you have a certain affection for the old Big Bug flicks of the 50's as I do, then check this one out.

I wonder how this film lost its rightful place in IMDB's "bottom 100" list. It is unworthy of the term "horror flick"; it's more of a character drama, which perhaps would be fine if the characters were even remotely interesting, but they are not. As for the special effects, when the mosquitos don't seem to be flying around held by invisible strings, they seem to be literally painted onto the film. "Skeeter" runs only 95 minutes, but they feel like four hours. Not recommended, even to my worst enemy. 0 out of 4.