Mansquito

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Mansquito

Mansquito DVD cover
(as "Mosquitoman")
Directed by Tibor Takács
Produced by Ken Badish
Susanne Bohnet
Written by Ken Badish
Ray Cannella
Boaz Davidson
Michael Hurst
Starring Corin Nemec
Musetta Vander
Austin Jordon
Music by Joseph Conlan
Sophia Morizet
Cinematography Emil Topuzov
Editing by Ellen Fine
Distributed by Nu Image
Release date(s) Flag of the United States March 5, 2005
Running time 92 min.
Country USA
Language English
Budget $750,000
Followed by Mansquito 2: A New Species
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A Sci Fi Pictures original film, Mansquito (also known as Mosquitoman) is a made-for-TV movie directed by Tibor Takács, and starring Corin Nemec, Musetta Vander and Austin Jordon. It shares many similarities with the 1986 adaptation of The Fly, and was conceived by Ray Cannella, Manager of Program Acquisition for the Sci Fi Channel. He and other two colleagues began producing movies for the channel feeling that they could do better than the movies they bought from independent producers [1].

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The movie starts with a news reporter in Africa talking about the sudden outbreak of a new super virus called the West Nile Virus, the virus is spread by mosquitos and this leads Dr. Jennifer Allen (Musetta Vander), a scientist, to come up with an experiment that could potentially kill the bacteria that creates the virus. Allen and her colleague find mosquistos that have been infected with the virus and start to give them small doses of radiation, she explains to her friend that the levels have to be exact and if the mosquitos receive too much radiation, the results could be more devasting than the virus itself.

Ray Erikson (Austin Jordon), a convict accused of murder, decides to join the program in exchange for his life-long prison sentence. Monitored by armed police guards, Ray enters the research facility and takes a gun from one of the guards, he takes a female hostage who is Allen's colleague and convinces Allen to open the door to the experiment room. The guards corner the room and fire, resulting in an explosion that showers Ray and Dr. Allen with the chemicals and the genetically altered mosquitos. Dr. Allen escapes with a few mosquito bites and while the guards focus on Allen, Ray manages to flee the scene.

Mansquito attacks his first victim
Mansquito attacks his first victim

Ray gets into a one-floor parking garage and starts to undergo a painful transformation: his right arm mutates into a mosquito-like appendage and the skin on his right arm becomes black. Then, still in his inmate garb, he finds his way to his former girlfriend's apartment. When the ex comes home, she finds it in ruins from Ray undergoing shorter transformations and she finds him visibly scarred and delirious from the accident. They have a short, anxious conversation and she notices his deformed arm. Ray falls to the floor and starts crawling towards her begging for help in a wretched voice and then his entire face becomes like that of a mosquito and his entire body undergoes a transformation that turns him into a mutant cross between a man and a giant mosquito. The ex-girlfriend is knocked onto the couch and screams in horror as Mansquito drains her blood.

Dr. Allen, who caught a little bit of the chemical on her right arm, returns home with her boyfriend, Lt. Tom Randall (Corin Nemec). That evening, after showering, she notices her wrist is very red and raw-looking. She thinks little of it until the next morning, when she realizes it has spread to her entire arm. Later, during dinner with Tom, she orders an extremely rare steak and puts a large amount of sugar into her coffee, giving into her cravings. When they arrive home, unknown to them both, Mansquito is watching them from the roof. After having some chocolate to satisfy her craving for sugar, Dr. Allen, while kissing Tom, has a sudden craving for blood and bites Tom. He is then called to come to the apartment of Ray's girlfriend and leaves. Allen then rushes into her bathroom to find her arm bleeding. Suddenly, she convulses and falls to the floor, her skin starting to bubble.

Tom arrives at Ray's girlfriend's apartment to investigate and is puzzled by the way she died. He is called to investigate another crime scene, where he encounters Mansquito. He shoots him to no avail, but a shock from a stun gun causes Mansquito to flee in pain. His fellow officer doesn't believe him at first but puts a bulletin out on the creature.

At the research station, Allen discovers the awful truth; she too is changing into a mosquito/man hybrid, but more slowly as she received a smaller dose than Ray. Mansquito appears but doesn't try to kill her, and after she faints, the monster leaves. Tom appears and takes Allen to a doctor as Mansquito watches on. At the hospital, the doctor decides to give Allen a blood transfusion to slow down the transformation, but she tells the doctor that it won't work because the genes of the mosquito can adapt to any kind of blood, so nothing can stop her mutation. Allen tells Tom why the creature came after her: Ray must have sensed that she is turning into a mosquito and will want to mate with her once her transformation is complete, since mosquitoes don't have feeling but they can sense it in other creatures. Outside, a guard falls victim to the monster and Tom leaves to investigate. Mansquito then undergoes another transformation, this time growing wings.

Allen begins to transform again and alerts the officers of Mansquito's arrival. A SWAT team enters the building, but bar Tom from entering. Mansquito wipes the SWAT team out, as even the armor-piercing round can't hurt him. The monster heads for Allen, but thanks to the sacrifice of Tom's partner, she gets away. Tom rescues an injured cop and fires a rocket-launcher at the tanks behind Mansquito, which creates a large fire explosion which he believes killed the creature. Tom escapes with a minor injury to find Allen. Although it is badly injured by the explosion, Mansquito survives the blast and can still sense that Allen is near.

Back at the lab, Allen undergoes another transformation, this time, she develops Mosquito nerves on the right side of her face, her eyes turn red and her skin becomes pale white, Allen then releases the last batch of genetically altered mosquitoes, which have been perfected. Tom arrives and Allen tells him that Mansquito is still alive. She then tries to commit suicide by trying to stab herself wih a syringe. She says that without a mate, Mansquito will die. Mansquito arrives and Tom begins to fight him. Despite her being more human than mosquito, Allen is defeated and is seriously injured by Mansquito who is now focused on killing her rather than mating with her. Tom uses the stun gun again, hurting the monster, and seeing this, Allen breaks an electrical line, jumps onto Mansquito and just as Mansquito starts to mate with her, electrocutes Mansquito and herself to death. Tom writes a report about the incident and the West Nile Virus is then wiped out by the accident.

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  1. ^ Wolf, Gary: We've Created a Monster!. Wired, issue 12.10, October 2004

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