Locusts: the 8th Plague (2005)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2012
SYNOPSIS: A biotech company is working to create a swarm of carnivorous locusts that eat agricultural pests. They turn out to be wildly successful, if you consider humans to be agricultural pests. Fortunately, the locusts are all sterile drones. Except for that queen nobody noticed. Also fortunately, the lab they were created in is completely escape-proof. Kind of like Stalag 13.
Colt used be one of the top scientists on locust project. He even married the boss's daughter Vicky, a crack U.S. Department of Agriculture investigator. Then he decided the project was far too dangerous and quit to become an organic pesticide expert. That experience is just what he needs when the job he's working on goes sour and his clients are eaten by a swarm of carnivorous locusts. A very familiar swarm of carnivorous locusts...
Colt runs back to town and alerts Vicky, who calls in a USDA black ops strike team to investigate. Alas, the USDA's assault rifles and flame throwers are no match for the locust swarm. The locusts disrupt various idyllic midwestern scenes, such as a family picnic and a county fair. The USDA sets up a high-tech command post and brings out their really heavy weaponry -- the famous USDA attack helicopter squadron and a pesticide so dangerous even its existence is Top Secret. Meanwhile, they also call out the National Guard for crowd control. Naturally, the Guardies, not having nearly the firepower of the USDA, quickly become locust lunch.
As Vicky and the USDA prepare to unleash the Pesticide of Doom, Colt realizes that they've got it all wrong -- the answer is to go organic! With his faithful old crop dusting plane and a load of organic pesticide, he can do what all the awesome firepower of the USDA can't -- stop the locusts and end the movie.
Colt used be one of the top scientists on locust project. He even married the boss's daughter Vicky, a crack U.S. Department of Agriculture investigator. Then he decided the project was far too dangerous and quit to become an organic pesticide expert. That experience is just what he needs when the job he's working on goes sour and his clients are eaten by a swarm of carnivorous locusts. A very familiar swarm of carnivorous locusts...
Colt runs back to town and alerts Vicky, who calls in a USDA black ops strike team to investigate. Alas, the USDA's assault rifles and flame throwers are no match for the locust swarm. The locusts disrupt various idyllic midwestern scenes, such as a family picnic and a county fair. The USDA sets up a high-tech command post and brings out their really heavy weaponry -- the famous USDA attack helicopter squadron and a pesticide so dangerous even its existence is Top Secret. Meanwhile, they also call out the National Guard for crowd control. Naturally, the Guardies, not having nearly the firepower of the USDA, quickly become locust lunch.
As Vicky and the USDA prepare to unleash the Pesticide of Doom, Colt realizes that they've got it all wrong -- the answer is to go organic! With his faithful old crop dusting plane and a load of organic pesticide, he can do what all the awesome firepower of the USDA can't -- stop the locusts and end the movie.
Greg Pearson
Ian Gilmour
Jeff Fahey
