Dragon Wasps is a 2012 horror film about a scientist who enlists the help of the US Army to investigate the disappearance of her father deep in the Belizean jungle. However, she gets caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army and giant mutated wasps.
The movie was directed by Joe Knee (The Shed Show; Immortal Island; Cult; Ghost Game) from a screenplay by Mark Atkins and Rafael Jordan.
The Little Dragon Productions movie stars Corin Nemec, Dominika Juillet, Nikolette Noel, Benjamin Easterday, Gildon Roland, David Staszko, Stevie Hack, Michael Webb, Adrian Clissold, David Tasker, Cosondra Sjostrom, Berne Velasquez, Aaron Erskine, Merrick Simmons and Pulu Lightburn.
When her father mysteriously disappears on an expedition, entomologist Gina Humphries (Dominika Juillet) and her assistant, Rhonda (Nikolette Noel), set out to search the rain forests of Belize.
Due to numerous robberies and assaults in the jungle, they are escorted by heavily armed soldiers. Guerillas, led by the infamous Jaguar (Gildon Roland), ambush the convoy and incite a bloody shootout.
Just when things can’t get worse, a horde of murderous dragon wasps, massive flying bugs that shoot flame from their abdomens, swarms the soldiers. Now the military must defeat Jaguar’s bandits and survive the fearsome insect onslaught as they venture inside the dragon wasps’ hive…
Review:
Dragon Wasps is notably short on Dragon Wasp action for the most part, instead concentrating on the one-dimensional military and guerrilla stereotypes and having an unusual fixation on cocaine, which turns out to be some sort of wasp-defeating wonder drug.
You can reach your conclusions about that, but the viewer might well find some sort of external stimulants are necessary to get through this, given the scattershot plot that doesn’t go anywhere.
There is a final burst of gory monster action towards the end but by then the meandering story, the terrible performances, the unfunny humour and the clumsy pacing will probably have made even the hardiest of viewers give up.
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Trailer:
Free online on YouTube (US only):
Cast and characters:
Corin Nemec … John Hammond
Dominika Juillet … Gina Humphries
Nikolette Noel … Rhonda Guiterrez
Benjamin Easterday … Willy Meyers
Gildon Roland … Jaguar
David Staszko … Doctor Humphries
Stevie Hack … Darby
Michael Webb … Jennings
Adrian Clissold … Jones
David Tasker … Simpson
Cosondra Sjostrom … Yates
Berne Velasquez … Ortega
Aaron Erskine … Jorge
Merrick Simmons … Luis
Pulu Lightburn … Malo
Technical specs:
1 hour 20 minutes
Stereo
Aspect ratio: 1.85: 1
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