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Horror

Genocide

1h 24m

Directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu • 1968 • Japan

The insects are taking over in this nasty piece of disaster horror directed by Kazui Nihonmatsu. A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer is more deliriously nihilistic, and convoluted, than you could imagine. Also known as War of the Insects, Genocide enacts a cracked doomsday scenario like no other.

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