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Mimic (1997)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
“For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now.”
Horror, Science Fiction · 1h 45m
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.
Cast
Mira Sorvino
Jeremy Northam
Giancarlo Giannini
Charles S. Dutton
Josh Brolin
Alexander Goodwin
Alix Koromzay
F. Murray Abraham
James Costa
Norman Reedus
Ho Pak-Kwong
Crew
- Director
- Guillermo del Toro
- Screenplay
- Matthew Robbins, Guillermo del Toro
- Director of Photography
- Dan Laustsen
- Original Music Composer
- Marco Beltrami
- Editor
- Peter Devaney Flanagan, Patrick Lussier
- Producer
- Ole Bornedal, B.J. Rack, Bob Weinstein
Details
- Release date
- 1997-08-22
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Horror, Science Fiction
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Italian, Mandarin
- Countries
- United States of America, Canada
- Production
- Dimension Films
- Budget
- $30,000,000
- Box office
- $25,480,490