Cockroach Tide is a 2020 Chinese science fiction horror film about a doomed project to create artificially intelligent cockroaches. Also known as Khepri Cockroach Tide
Directed by Cui Yanlong aka Channel Cho from a screenplay co-written with Zhao Xuewei, the Youku production stars Zina Blahusova (Hostel), Edwin Gerard, Jin Jia, Jiang Yixuan, Ji Yawen, Xu Shaowu and Jia Shuyi.
Plot:
As the human population grows, more and more garbage is produced, and environmental pollution is becoming a bigger issue.
With the global advocacy of environmental protection, PDR Biotech uses gene fusion technology to create a “super cockroach” that claims to be able to quickly eliminate any garbage and is safe and controllable.
Company leader Victor is ambitious and wants to use the super cockroach to change the world, so he rented an entire freighter with the super cockroach to show the technology to the world.
Unexpectedly, on the way to the destination, control of hundreds of thousands of super cockroaches on the ship is lost and they attack and devour everyone on the ship.
In order to survive, the ship’s first officer Qiao Jianghe and Victor join forces to lead the survivors to do everything possible to escape from the super cockroaches.
However, just as everyone is about to escape from the bug siege, Qiao Jianghe discovers that the super cockroach attacks were not a mistake, and there is a bigger conspiracy…
Our view:
The CGI images in Cockroach Tide as some of the worst ever created (mainly the ship and a rat, not so much the bugs themselves). The brainless script isn’t much better although the greed-themed human conflicts are amusing, at least. With its clumsy anti-pollution theme but rubbish delivery, this should have been titled ‘Cockroach Trash’. Adrian J Smith, MOVIES & MANIA
Other reviews:
” …there’s not much on offer here, with the impact severely diminished by the sub-par digital work. This isn’t even limited to the roaches: the first shot of the “boat” sailing through the “water” – quotes used advisedly – is so bad, I initially thought it was some kind of in-movie screenshot. The only time it comes close to working, is when the quantity is big enough to counterbalance the quality, and you get literal waves of roaches, surging through the vessel.” Rating: D- Film Blitz
“Cockroach Tide had potential, a threat that makes people’s skin crawl and a claustrophobic setting. But even when it does come up with a good idea such as the bugs queen controlling the corpse of the ship’s captain (Shaowu Xu) it doesn’t do much with it […] Cockroach Tide ends with a lesson on how to sort garbage. It’s a fitting image for a film that should have been chucked in a dumpster with the roaches.” Voices from the Balcony
Cast and characters:
Zina Blahusova … Ailie
Edwin Gerard … Doctor Victor
Yixuan Jiang … Sihan Qiao
Jia Jin … Jianghe Qiao
Shaowu Xu … Captain
Original title:
蟑潮
Related:
More cockroach horror
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