My review of Ticks (1993):
The most interesting thing I learned about this movie is that originally it did not include Clint Howard. After principal photography was completed and they moved onto editing, the producers realized they did not have enough quality scenes. They hired Clint Howard and filmed all of his scenes in one day. Thank goodness. He was the best part of this movie. The second most interesting thing I learned was that writer Brent V. Friedman wrote the script in the 1970s and held onto it until he could find someone willing to make it into a movie.
The ticks were not scary. The movie was slow. None of the child actors were engaging, interesting or behaved realistically. Jerry and Sir should have had more scenes, they were fascinating and killed more victims than the titular ticks.
The movie became briefly captivating, about an hour into it, when all the characters were in the cabin and the forest fire was driving an army of ticks towards the cabin. But it turned out that the ticks were not all that deadly, even in overwhelming numbers. Nor was the forest fire much of a threat. Even the creepy Sir and Jerry ended up taking each other out of commission, so where is the tension? Suddenly, the previously wimpy Seth Green is a bad ass hero?!?
The most interesting thing I learned about this movie is that originally it did not include Clint Howard. After principal photography was completed and they moved onto editing, the producers realized they did not have enough quality scenes. They hired Clint Howard and filmed all of his scenes in one day. Thank goodness. He was the best part of this movie. The second most interesting thing I learned was that writer Brent V. Friedman wrote the script in the 1970s and held onto it until he could find someone willing to make it into a movie.
The ticks were not scary. The movie was slow. None of the child actors were engaging, interesting or behaved realistically. Jerry and Sir should have had more scenes, they were fascinating and killed more victims than the titular ticks.
The movie became briefly captivating, about an hour into it, when all the characters were in the cabin and the forest fire was driving an army of ticks towards the cabin. But it turned out that the ticks were not all that deadly, even in overwhelming numbers. Nor was the forest fire much of a threat. Even the creepy Sir and Jerry ended up taking each other out of commission, so where is the tension? Suddenly, the previously wimpy Seth Green is a bad ass hero?!?