Mimic (film)

Mimic is an American 1997 science fiction horror film cowritten and directed by Guillermo del Toro, and starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton and Giancarlo Giannini. It is based on a short story of the same name by Donald A. Wollheim.

In Manhattan, cockroaches are spreading the deadly Stricklers disease that is claiming hundreds of the citys children. Entomologist Susan Tyler Mira Sorvino uses genetic engineering to create what her colleague and husband Peter Mann Jeremy Northam and she call the Judas breed, a large insect looking like a cross between a termite and a praying mantis that releases an enzyme that kills off the diseasecarrying roaches by speeding up their metabolism. The Judas breed works spectacularly and the crisis is abated. The released population was allfemale and designed with a lifespan of only a few months, so that it would only last one generation.Three years later, a reverend is chased and dragged underground by a strange assailant. The only witness is Chuy Alexander Goodwin, the special possibly autistic ward of an immigrant subway shoeshiner named Manny Giancarlo Giannini. Chuy notices the killer making a clicking sound, and calls him Mr. Funny Shoes, thinking it is the sound of his footsteps. A CDC officer named Josh Josh Brolin investigates the church in regards to numerous immigrants found hiding in the basement and comes across some excrement on the ceiling containing wooden buttons. ........

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