Mimic
For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now.
Mimic (1997)
Timing:
1:45 (105 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Horror, Science Fiction
Budget
$30 000 000
Revenue
$25 480 490
Director
Actors
Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Josh Brolin, Alexander Goodwin, Alix Koromzay, F. Murray Abraham, James Costa, Javon Barnwell
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Bob Weinstein, B.J. Rack, Ole Bornedal, Michael Phillips
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Suzanne Crowley, Billy Hopkins, Kerry Barden
Editing
Short description
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
What's left behind the scenes
- Robert Rodriguez participated in the work on the film as a second director, but concealed his name in the credits.
- The name of the new species of cockroach – Judas – is interesting. It is known that Judas betrayed Jesus, just as the cockroaches do in this film.
- Filming took place in Los Angeles and in the old subway at the 'Dilancey Street' station in Toronto, which was closed back in 1966.
- The length of the film after final editing was 2957 meters.
- Stricker's disease, from which the children in this film suffer, is actually "autosomal dominant arthro-ophthalmopathy" – an inflammatory eye disease.
- Conflicts regularly arose on set between director Guillermo del Toro and producer Bob Weinstein, who often visited the set and demanded scenes that were not in the script. They have not worked together since.
- Initially, the film was conceived as one of 30-minute novellas within a feature-length film. Ultimately, these three novellas evolved into two full-length films — “Mutants” (1997) and “The Outsider” (2001), and a short film “Love Triangle” (2008).
- The disease that the children in this film suffer from is actually "autosomal dominant arthro-ophthalmopathy" – an inflammatory eye disease.
- The film was originally conceived as one of 30-minute novellas within a feature film. Ultimately, these three novellas evolved into two full-length films – "Mutants" (1997) and "The Intruder" (2001), and the short film "Love Triangle" (2008).
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