Mansquito

About Mansquito

A Sci Fi Pictures original film, Mansquito (also known as Mosquitoman) is a made-for-TV movie directed by Tibor Takács, and starring Corin Nemec, Musetta Vander and Austin Jordon. It shares many similarities with the 1986 adaptation of The Fly, and was conceived by Ray Cannella, Manager of Program Acquisition for the Sci Fi Channel. He and other two colleagues began producing movies for the channel feeling that they could do better than the movies they bought from independent producers .

The movie starts with a news reporter in Africa talking about the sudden outbreak of a new super virus called the West Nile Virus, the virus is spread by mosquitoes and this leads Dr. Jennifer Allen (Musetta Vander), a scientist, to come up with an experiment that could potentially kill the bacteria that creates the virus. Allen and her colleague find mosquitoes that have been infected with the virus and start to give them small doses of radiation, she explains to her friend that the levels have to be exact and if the mosquitoes receive too much radiation, the results could be more devastating than the virus itself.

Ray Erikson (Austin Jordon), a convict accused of murder, decides to join the program in exchange for his life-long prison sentence. Monitored by armed police guards, Ray enters the research facility and takes a gun from one of the guards, he takes a female hostage who is Allen's colleague and convinces Allen to open the door to the experiment room. The guards corner the room and fire, resulting in an explosion that showers Ray and Dr. Allen with the chemicals and the genetically altered mosquitoes. Dr. Allen escapes with a few mosquito bites and while the guards focus on Allen, Ray manages to flee the scene.