Mimic [Blu-ray]

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Overview

Shocking, and sporadically scary, this sci-fi horror outing is set in a futuristic New York City that is threatened by mutant, carnivorous cockroaches with an ability to morph into human form. Feeling responsible for the disaster, scientist Susan and her cohorts enter a shadowy subway to somehow stop them.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/10/2009
UPC:	9339065002195
Original Release:	1997
Source:	Icon
Language:	English
Time:	1:46:00
Sales rank:	76,242

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mira Sorvino	Susan Tyler
Jeremy Northam	Peter Mann
Josh Brolin	Josh
Giancarlo Giannini	Manny
Charles Dutton	Leonard
Alexander Goodwin	Chuy
Alix Koromzay	Remy
F. Murray Abraham	Dr. Gates
James Costa	Ricky
Javon Barnwell	Davis
Norman Reedus	Jeremy
Pak Kwong-Ho	Preacher
Glen Bang	Yang,Actor
Margaret Ma	Chinese Woman
Warna Fisher	Bag Lady
Alan Argue	Skeletal Bum
Charles Hayter	Homeless Man
Julian Richings	Workman
James Kidnie	Subway Repairman
Eve English	Homeless Woman
Bill Lasovich	Long John
Doug Jones	Long John
Roger Clown	Long John
Pak-Kwong Ho	Actor

Technical Credits

Matthew Robbins

Guillermo del Toro

Donald A. Wollheim

Matthew Robbins	Screenwriter
Guillermo del Toro	Screenwriter
Ole Bornedal	Producer
B.J. Rack	Producer
Bob Weinstein	Producer
Kerry Barden	Casting
Rob Bottin	Special Effects
Reid Burns	Special Effects
Stuart Cornfeld	Executive Producer
Tyruben Ellingson	Special Effects
Billy Hopkins	Casting
Brian Jennings	Special Effects
Traver Lalonde	Special Effects
Rick Lazzarini	Special Effects
Jeff Metocovich	Special Effects
Michael Phillips	Executive Producer
Branko Racki	Stunts
Ted Ross	Special Effects
Suzanne Smith	Casting,Special Effects
Donald A. Wollheim	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Bugs, if used well, will continue to serve as terrifying movie villains, and Guillermo Del Toro keeps the creepy-crawly tradition rolling with Mimic, in which human-sized cockroaches inhabit the defunct New York City subway system. Scientists trying to play God should know by now that it's not a good idea, but Mira Sorvino, an expectant mother, courts disaster in order to bring an end to the epidemic that's rapidly wiping out the city's children. Del Toro establishes a morbid, eerie tone, and his crisp filmmaking gives the events a sense of desperate emergency. He can't help tripping over some clichés in what is essentially familiar territory, as a team of scientists and other do-gooders descend into subterranean New York to save a young boy who, in a chilling device, communicates to the bugs through a clicking pattern with kitchen utensils. But there are enough real shocks and doses of sheer icky-ness hiding in the shadows to keep this bug movie humming. Because much of the action takes place below street level, viewers are invited to contemplate just how intricately this underground network of tunnels and access chambers was designed, and how surprisingly deep into the earth it plunges. Sorvino's balance between toughness and fragility, evident in much of her work, is well served for a character who opened Pandora's Box and is now trying to shut it, despite her petrified unfamiliarity with her own horrid creation.