This flick is the Ultimate in Mutant Cockroach Terror! I love this one! Easily one of the best Roger Corman productions from the 80’s! Sure it has a cheesy 80’s synthesizer-score and displays ditto wardrobe and hairdos. But it also has a decent plot, well-drawn-out characters and… great gross gore effects! It follows the rules of a creature feature by the book, and the film benefits a lot from it. The puppetry and ‘animatronics’ might be rather static (not very lively), but the creature design is rather great and the ‘mayor-roach’ transformation scene is major fun to watch! There’s also a ‘cat-roach’ in it, and just wait until you (briefly) see the final ‘Über-mutant-roach’ (which for some reason always reminds me of the final creature we get to see in John Carpenters “The Thing”)! If you like all the afore-mentioned ingredients, then seek this baby out and have fun with it.
