Mimic (1997)

"Mimic" was Guillermo del Toro's first American film and only his second full-length production. His work as a director in the horror genre takes a few steps forward from his outstanding debut "Cronos". The film feels like a summer blockbuster, that it was made for the masses, which is made appearant by the casting choices and hefty budget for the time. While most people rate the movie highly, it failed to cover it's costs while in the box office. Luckily this fact did not harm del Toro's future as a director as he followed this film with "The Devil's Backbone" in 2001 and "Blade 2" in 2002.


The cockroaches of New York City are carrying and spreading a diesease that target and kills young children. The CDC is unable to find a cure or develop a vaccine to neturalize the diesease. They decide to approach the matter from a different angle, and with the help of Entomologist Susan Tyler, they introduce a bio-engineered breed of insect named the Judas Breed to kill off the cockroaches. The experiment is a success and the cockroach population drops to a new low. The Judas Breed were designed to die off within six months and were unable to reproduce. But.....
Fast forward three years and Susan is once again called into duty after two kids sell her a "weird bug" they found in the subway tunnels. To Susan's surprise, it's a large baby Judas. Before she is able to fully disect the spescisem, her office is broken into and steals the dead insect. Susan and her husband Peter go to the subway and break in to the area where the boys had found the bug, only to be turned away by a subway police officer named Leonard. A young austistic child named Chuy and his father Manny become involved after Chuy sees "the man with the funny shoes" enter an old church where a murder supposedly took place. All the main characters end up in the subway tunnels for their own reasons and end up attracting the attention of the Judas Breed, now called Mimic for their abiltiy to look like humans with long coats. These human sized, praying mantis-termite hybrids are quickly reproducing and present a real threat to the world at large. It's up to Susan and the others to find the nest and end the Judas program once and for all.

a Mimic

Susan and her husband Peter

A solider class Mimic

Norman Reedus is thrilled to be in his first movie