original
Chinese title KHEPRI ZHANG CHAO [Zhepri Cockroach Tide]
director:
Cai Yanlong and Channel Cho
starring: Zina Blahusova · Edwin Gerard · Jiang Yixuan · Jia Jin · Xu
Shaowu
As
the human population grows, more and more garbage is produced at an
alarming rate. Environmental protection company KHEPRI develops a gene-fusion
technology to create super cockroaches that will quickly eliminate excessive
garbage. The newly bread creatures are safe and controllable... until
they aren't.
This
is one of the better 'creature features' to emerge from China recently
[also see SNOW
MONSTER and BIG
OCTOPUS, et al]. However - unlike the others - this one
doesn't feature a giant malformation (even though it's promoted that
way by the DVD cover). Rather, the monster is hundreds... no thousands...
of indestructible, uncontrollable flesheating cockroaches.
Perhaps
the biggest surprise here is the effective cast, headlined by the very
young Zina Blahusova from the Czech Republic. She made her acting debut
as the girl in Eli Roth's Hostel back in 2005. Zina is
also the lead singer for the Japanese new-wave band Element-Z.
A Chinese
film, some English spoken, with Chinese and English subtitles; widescreen
format,
uncut 89 minutes, DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT.
Extras include original theatrical trailer.
Sexual
Situation/Graphic Violence/Sexual Brutality
Intended For Mature Audiences