A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer is more deliriously nihilistic, and convoluted, than they could imagine.
Practical Effects
Glorious practical bug effects that oscillate between silly and nightmare fuel.
Direction
Nihonmatsu's unhinged tonal whiplash keeps you perpetually off-balance.
Director
Kazui Nihonmatsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released the same year as Night of the Living Dead, this Japanese exploitation film weaponizes WWII trauma in ways American horror wouldn't touch for decades.
Director Kazui Nihonmatsu made only two features; after this nihilistic bug-bomb masterpiece, he vanished from cinema entirely. Can't blame him.
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