Word: entomophobia
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...Toro's fine 1992 Cronos. The same themes and similar characters show up here; the director is apparently buggy for bugs and for strange, trusting children. For its first hour--up to and including that airborne kidnapping of our heroine--Mimic is a suavely creepy essay in entomophobia. Then the film gets a severe case of the stupes. The creatures keep Susan alive (inexplicable unless she is meant to be mated with the king bug), and they stop evolving into humans (so we never, alas, see the final stage of a really uggy bug-man). Horror-film heroines are typically...
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