Video Review

Ticks (1994)

EW's GRADE
D-

Details Movie Rated: R; Genre: Horror; With: Ami Dolenz and Peter Scolari

There used to be an unwritten law in the horror genre against the explicit infliction of pain on children or animals. Well, the children part went out the window a long time ago, and in this charmer, we get to see a nice dog's awful death throes and the subsequent removal of a giant tick from its stomach. Icky doesn't begin to describe it. Of course, given Ticks' older-than-Gilgamesh kids-at-camp-menaced-by-mutated-creatures plotline, the filmmakers had to come up with something, um, fresh. Not a rental for pet lovers, no way. Not a rental for movie lovers, uh-uh. Not a rental for horror-movie lovers. Not even a rental for people who have relatives in it. Get the idea? D-

Originally posted May 20, 1994 Published in issue #223 May 20, 1994 Order article reprints

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