While its script comes off as an experiment in plot-splicing, this is an admittedly snappy, occasionally exciting monster movie. The film premiered on cable, and was released on home video shortly thereafter.
In Sarawak, Northern Borneo, Ash Mattley (Mark Dacascos) has been working as a physician since his attempts to prove a local beetle holds the key to conquering disease were ridiculed by the scientific community. He is approached by Dr. Carl Wessinger (Jurgen Prochnow), who tells Ash that he can
make his theories a reality, but when Ash retrieves a beetle for him, Wessinger shoots him before apparently dying in a cave-in. Two years later, CIA agent Claire So...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
97 mins