PopHorror Let's Get Scared
Creature Features have a really iconic place in the halls of horror. From the Universal Monsters of the 30’s to the otherworldly beings in the 50’s and 60’s, animalistic unknowns are often the epicenter of fright. Such is the case in Waspzilla.
Let’s break down this ferocious flyer and see what the buzz is about.
Waspzilla is a 2024 B-horror flick that was written and directed by James B. Thomasson (Backwoods Bubba 2021). It stars Morrigan Thompson Milam (Disremembered 2024, read our review here) and Angel Nichole Bradford (Depravity 2023) as two police women who are sent to catch a giant mutated wasp after an accident. A hunter accidentally shoots a vat of some experimental government goo, and suddenly a whimsically wide wasp begins to angrily terrorize a small town.
The chaos that ensues mixes the wild creature movies of the 60’s with CGI gore in an Ed Wood style of drive-in fun. Milam and Bradford always have good chemistry together, and they are cast well as a polar opposite, buddy cop duo. Milam pulls impressive double duty here, also playing her slacker twin sister. Pulling off a scene where an actor interacts with themselves is tough, but the filmmaking crew makes it work.
Waspzilla really owns what it is and stays close to its nest. It’s a fun, turn your brain off, horror film with violence and gratuitous nudity. A lot of the characters are without a ton of nuance and the CGI may feel a bit distracting at times (it’s a low budget indie, so it’s to be expected, and has its own charms). But the costumes are cool, the kills are frequent, and banter between the protagonists has a few throw-away lines that land brilliantly.
Waspzilla is currently available to stream on Geoflixz+.
