“A new kind of enemy. A new kind of war.”
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
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🏆 Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 16 nominations total
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
Verhoeven weaponizes spectacle, turning glossy recruitment-poster gloss into a slaughterhouse. The dread here is attritional: waves of chitinous horror overrunning human bodies with clinical indifference, limbs and lives spent like ammunition. What unsettles most is the smiling propaganda framing the carnage, daring you to cheer as the survival math turns hopeless.
Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Creature Violence, Body Horror, Mass Casualty Scenes
Casper Van Dien
Johnny D. Rico
Dina Meyer
Dizzy Flores
Denise Richards
Carmen Ibañez
Jake Busey
Private Ace Levy
Neil Patrick Harris
Colonel Carl Jenkins
Clancy Brown
Career Sergeant Zim
Michael Ironside
Lieutenant Jean Rasczak
Patrick Muldoon
Zander Barcalow
Seth Gilliam
Private Sugar Watkins
Rue McClanahan
Biology Teacher
Blake Lindsley
Katrina McIntire
Steven Ford
Lieutenant Willy
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