An introduction for a film about mutant insects, which never gained any traction and faded into obscurity before it could be made.

Production notes:

I always wanted to make an action movie about giant insects, so one day in 2012 when my friend Cooper was over, I decided to get started on a grand prologue for the film which would show a tropical island being used as a nuclear testing site. The radiation would mutate the insects living there, and presto! Giant insects on the loose. However, despite my plans, I pretty much gave up on this movie for reasons I cannot entirely remember. Possibly laziness. Anyway, even though there isn’t much to this little intro sequence, it is notable for a couple reasons. For one, it was one of my bolder experiments with using miniature sets (That’s right, those hyper-realistic palm trees were in fact plastic toys). Secondly, and more importantly, this was my first time using real fire in my movies, as I didn’t know how to achieve it digitally just yet in those days. The new edit of this does incorporate a few new digital effects, including fire and explosions, but the original fire can still be seen. One thing that was cut out, however, was a shot where I throw dirt up into the air to try and simulate the nuclear blast. This was largely replaced by a digital explosion from Action Essentials 2. Bugs! was full of outlandish special effects experiments—another example was when I sprayed water in mist form to represent smoke from the nuclear explosion.

Fun fact: At one point in 2015 I made an awful attempt at continuing the film, and it ended up so atrocious that I vowed to never upload it... until 2019 that is, in the form of a separate video titled "Z Moore and the Creepy Crawlies of Doom".