{"id":529,"date":"2011-10-22T12:17:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2011-10-22T12:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T19:17:42","slug":"insects-at-the-movies-mimic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Insects At The Movies: Mimic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite it being a rather standard and predictable genre movie in many ways, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s\u00a0 MIMIC <\/a>(1997) gives us giant human-mimicking cockroaches, a splendid combination of practical and CGI insect goodness. While diagrams of the \u201cJudas Breed\u201d anatomy are sadly hard to come by, instead I present to you the beautiful entomology-laden opening title sequence from the film<\/a>, crafted by legendary designer Kyle Cooper<\/a>. It’s absolutely breathtaking, creepy, and provides a narrative to the rest of the film<\/p>\n

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Sadly, the insects don\u2019t win in the end of this one, (though several sequels were spawned, so perhaps they didn’t do too badly) and the film take some breathtaking liberties with entomology. At least the genes from termites and praying mantids that are spliced into the “judas breed” cockroach all come from the same branch of insects, the Dictyoptera<\/a>. So at least somebody was paying attention! But I will gladly give the ignorance of natural selection mechanics a pass,\u00a0 if that means I get to see giant cockroaches disguise themselves as rain-coat suited gentlemen just so they can get a meal. Clakclackclak clacketyCHOMP. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Despite it being a rather standard and predictable genre movie in many ways, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s\u00a0 MIMIC (1997) gives us giant human-mimicking cockroaches, a splendid combination of practical and CGI insect goodness. While diagrams of the \u201cJudas Breed\u201d anatomy are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[50,264,253,266,267,263,265],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-cockroach","tag-dictyoptera","tag-giant","tag-guillermo-del-toro","tag-halloween","tag-kyle-cooper","tag-mimic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}