It's a pleasant surprise when you watch a film expecting "absolute shit," and you get, "not that bad." It's your standard B horror, featuring Alfonso Ribeiro in a hilarious, scene stealing role as a street tough thug. Also, Clint Howard appears, fulfilling his obligation of being in seemingly every film of the 90s.

After this and Hellraiser II, Tony Randel is not a good director, who seems to bring in a pair of evil pot growers later on here because the central premise of giant mutant ticks is not enough to push the plot. The only interesting things in this are the special effects and Alfonso Ribeiro, who I grew up watching in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air as Carlton, as a tough guy. Aside from that, there is little else.

Neat little 90s horror flick. The plot, which is very tongue-in-cheek, involves evil pot farmers whose chemical tampering with Mother Nature leads to massive growth in the tick population. A group of campers, led by a very young Seth Green, face down with the creepy bloodsuckers. It's a solid effort, with some predicably terrible dialogue, and thoroughly enjoyable performances from Green, who flashes some of his comic brilliance, and Alfonso Ribeiro as a hilariously miscast streetwise thug.