10 Horror Movies That Dared To Kill Kids
7. Mimic - Hardened Street Youths Are No Match For Giant Killer Cockroaches
Guillermo del Toro obviously doesn’t have any qualms about killing children. 1997’s Mimic starts with the proliferation of a deadly disease carried by cockroaches that specifically targets children. In order to combat the disease, scientists genetically engineer a larger insect that secretes an enzyme that kills the disease-ridden cockroaches.
The
project is a success, and since they designed the larger cockroaches to be
female there is no risk of them reproducing. As Jeff Goldblum would attest,
life, uh, finds a way and sure enough these genetically engineered bugs have
grown even larger and developed the ability to, wait for it, mimic human beings. So it’s up to the
scientists who designed them and some other unlucky b*stards to stop the humanoid
insects from taking over the world.
Of course, the only reason the scientist finds out about this is because some street youths who were playing around in subway tunnels, as street youths are wont to do, and find the dead carcass of one of the large cockroaches. Since all street youths know entomologists, they bring it to the scientist who created it, who shells over cash for their discovery. Thinking they’ve struck gold, the youths head back down into the tunnels to try and find more, where they are savaged by a giant insect.