Some months ago Alan Friswell, the bloke who made the CFZ Feegee Mermaid and also the guy responsible for some of the most elegantly macabre bloggo postings, wrote me an email. He had an idea for a new series for the bloggo. Quite simply he has an enormous collection of macabre, fortean, odd and disturbing magazine and newspaper articles, and he proposed to post them up on the bloggo.
INVINCIBLE INSECT INVASION IMMEDIATELY IMMINENT! ISN'T IT?
This one's got the lot; a veritable kaleidoscopic cornucopia of B-movie madness.
Dinosaurs, biblical prophecies, the end of the world, plagues of locusts, and nothing less than the last vestiges of the exterminated human race enslaved by giant sentient insects, transformed into monsters by man's distortion of the eco-system, and natural selection's revenge upon an arrogant, and fatally complacent mankind. Blimey.
All it needs is Mara Corday in a sprayed-on bikini (if you don't know who Mara Corday is, shame on you! Google her immediately!), and Charlton Heston with a machine-gun.
The fact that all of this contains about as much scientific validity as an average episode of Space 1999 does not--strangely--seem to unduly concern the publishers of Modern Mecanix, who usually made at least a cursory attempt to get their science right.
A practical joke? Who knows? But great fun. And what a great movie it would have made.
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