Bug Buster

Bug Buster

Busty starlets past (Meredith Salenger) and present (Katherine Heigl), two of the least dignified members of the Star Trek cast (James Doohan and George Takei), one slumming Academy Award nominee (Randy Quaid), one of the cast members of The Love Boat (Bernie Kopell), an ex-MTV VJ (Downtown Julie Brown), and one unpleasant giant flying cockroach all turn up in Bug Buster, an awful direct-to-video film about mutated bugs and the resort towns they terrorize. Essentially a low-budget Jaws rip-off, Bug Buster tells the story of an everyday, bug-phobic teen (Heigl) who moves into a sleepy resort town with her parents after they purchase a run-down hotel. Soon, however, hideous bugs are eating people alive, necessitating lots of corpses and screaming women in showers, along with the appearance of Quaid, whose character embodies two different cheesy-horror-movie tropes in one: the whacked-out, mentally shaky Vietnam veteran and the overly enthusiastic insect exterminator. Intercut at seemingly random intervals are scenes of Takei engaged in an extremely animated series of one-sided conversations with mutated insects. Bloody and gory in a way that's gross and unpleasant but not the least bit scary or fun, Bug Buster is pure bottom-of-the-barrel dreck, with nothing to recommend it beyond the aforementioned giant flying cockroach, which is sadly allotted only about three minutes of screen time.

 
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