A family of three is having fun outdoors. Their son plays with a glider as his mother calls him
over for a snack. Not feeling hungry, the boy skips the meal and follows the glider until it
crashes into a cave. Just then, we see him screaming and running away from a swarm of
locusts. They attack his parents and kill them alive, leaving the boy desperately in
the family car. What makes the locusts so dangerous? This is Movie Shortens.
Follow us today to the movie titled: Locusts The 8th Plague. Be aware: there are spoilers!
The movie starts out with a white truck entering a facility called Silogen Research Center, located
15 miles from Prairie, Idaho. In one of Silogen’s crop domes, there are a lot of bugs and corn.
The purpose of the dome and bugs is to run a test on a genetically modified locust made by Gary Wolf
and Russ Snow. These locusts have been designed to eat any pest that would ruin the crops.
The locusts are set loose in the dome, and after a minute, a pheromone is released to lure the locust
back out of the dome to a holding pen to see if they were successful. All the corn survived,
and better yet all the pests had been destroyed. It seems like the experiment was successful.
Just as Gary and Russ start celebrating, an alarm goes off and alerts them that one of
the vents was not closed all the way, and that it needs to be manually closed. A worker goes down
to close the vent, and reports that it's jammed. The locust then comes down and attacks the worker,
and in a short amount of time, he is killed. Because the vent didn’t close all the way, the
entire swarm was able to escape the facility. At a corn field, a man named Hank tells his son
Mike to go get some apples from field number 7. Mike agrees and drives off on his dirt bike.
It's at this point another man named Colt, who owns an organic pesticide business, meets up
with Hank and his wife Agatha to collect payment from their last spray. Although Hank complains
the fee is a bit high, he has no other choice as Colt’s spray formula helped on their farm.
Agatha tells Colt she will write him a check. Colt then departs and heads back to his home,
where his girlfriend Vicky has burnt their dinner. Colt tells her that he hit 7 farms,
and that all 7 of them do not need extra spraying, that their formula is working.
Back at Silogen, some workers investigate the vents. They find the remains of the worker whose
foot was eaten. Russ wants to inform the government that the locusts have escaped.
However, Gary then points out that since the GM locusts have short lives and do not breed,
they shouldn’t worry too much. Over at Hanks cornfield, he is driving a
Combine Harvester to harvest the corn when the machine stops. He radios over to Agatha that
something is jammed in the blades. Hank goes out to investigate and finds the remains of a bull,
almost eaten to the bone. Agatha then hears something in the corn and goes to find out
what it is. She discovers Mike’s bike, and the partially eaten body of her son.
Hank tells Agatha to sit tight, and that he will come over in the Combine, but finds it is covered
in locust. As Hank tries to run away, he is attacked and killed by the locust. Not long after,
Agatha is also attacked and killed. Colt has pulled up to the Combine and
discovers the bull's remains, and after a bit of investigating, finds the body of a locust,
and then the body of Hank. He immediately leaves and heads to the medical hospital that Vicky works
at. He tells her that Hank has been killed, and that he thinks the locust killed him.
Vicky says that there have been reports of cows being mutilated, and Colt wishes to see one of
the bodies, but Vicky says only USDA can see it. With some convincing, Colt is allowed to
inspect the specimen. Hank finds a locust inside the cow’s mouth. They are initially skeptical,
since locusts are herbivores, but analysis shows that this locust has tissue inside its stomach.
Colt then concludes it must be Silogen, since before he left, he remembered Russ
wanted to create a bug that eats other bugs. Meanwhile in Prairie Idaho, a family is having a
picnic. A boy named Kyle follows the glider as it flies into a cave, where he discovers the locust.
He runs away screaming, while the locusts pursue him. Kyle tells his mom that they need to run
just as the locust attacks both father and then mother. In desperation, Kyle attempts to flee
in the car until he crashes it into a tree. Colt takes it upon himself to see Russ in person,
telling him that he had warned about the dangers. Russ denies the accusations,
explaining that the locust will die in 2 days, and that it was all an accident. After Colt leaves,
Russ informs Gary that Colt knows. Gary suggests covering their tracks, to destroy all evidence
of their experiment. If Colt comes back to the facility, he will kill him. Just as Russ
is about to leave, he tells Gary that though he does not care what happens to Colt, he threatens
Gary if anything happens to his daughter. The scene cuts to a state trooper named Anderson.
While on patrol, he finds the car Kyle was driving is covered in dead locust, and an unconscious
Kyle. Anderson then breaks the window and takes Kyle out of the car. He then manages to get into
his car just as the locust attacks his car. He outruns them and takes Kyle to the hospital.
At a runway, USDA Agent Greg Ballard meets Alex Price in a Blackhawk Helicopter.
Greg, who has made it to deal with the North African locust, is informed that there is
now a bioengineered locust problem in Idaho. Greg is assigned to stop the spread of them.
At the same time, Colt is driving and is unable to get a signal. He has to stop by to use an
emergency phone to call Vicky, informing that her father did create the locust.
Meanwhile at the hospital, Kyle and Anderson have arrived. The bodies of Kyle's parents have been
brought to the hospital as well. They share the same death as the cows, which leads Colt and Vicky
to see the boy. Colt goes to find Anderson, while Vicky stays with Kyle. Colt finds that
Anderson’s car is covered in locust and pulls the body of one of them off for investigation.
He discovers that the locust on the car was a juvenile, and that they have been breeding.
Sometime later, Vicky and Colt meet Agent Greg as he touches down. While they drive to their
destination, Greg is told that the swarm has mutated to reproduce. Colt tells them that
they need to find the nest, which he deduces is near the place Kyle had been attacked.
Later that day, Colt, Vicky, Greg, and a team search for the nest which they find in the
cave where Kyle’s glider landed. The team then realizes this is where all the larvae are at.
Colt then grabs some samples of the nest, and then the group sprays the nest with pesticide.
The larva die, but the adults do not, so they use flamethrowers,
which only agitates the swarm. The team is then attacked, with most of them being eaten,
yet Gary, Colt, and Vicky survived. Later, Greg is on the phone with Alex and is told that they
are allowed to use UD-66, which is a military grade pesticide that is extremely toxic.
Back at the hospital, they debate where they think the swarm will nest next. A computer simulation
predicts that in 96 hours, a sizable chunk of locust will cover Idaho, according to Greg.
He suggests the military has a pesticide called UD-66 they can use, but Colt is against the idea,
saying with UD-66, not only will people and the locust die, but then nothing will grow for 10
years. Vicky, however, sides with Greg, and she will sign the order. No matter what Colt
dissuades, she continues with her initial plan. While they figure out their next step,
at an amusement park, the locusts have come and start attacking the people there. With
some people trapped on their rides, they can’t escape and are eaten alive. After the event at
the amusement park, the group predicts that the swarm will come to Prairie unless they stop them.
Greg suggests using a large number of livestock to lure them in and use UD-66. Vicky demands a better
option, and Greg compromises. He calls and orders the helicopters to be armed with UD-45 instead.
Sometime later they have gathered the livestock, and the helicopters approach the area.
Meanwhile, Colt is still at the hospital studying his samples, attempting to bring
down the idea of using UD-66. He finds that not only pesticide doesn’t work on the insects,
but they become attracted to it. Realizing that Vicky is in danger, he drives as fast as he can
to her. En route, he tells her that not only are the locust resistant to the pesticide,
but it makes them stronger. Vicky immediately informs Greg about that but at this moment,
he cannot radio the helicopters, as the swarm is too dense for radio signals to make it.
The insects then attack the Helicopter, causing it to tailspin into the ground. With their
mission a failure, Alex gets the permission of the President of the United States to use the National
Guard, which then enters Prairie. Back in the hospital, seeing the escalating
problem, Greg argues with Colt about using UD-66 as the final approach. Greg is determined,
saying they have no options left. The National Guard armed with flamethrowers await the swarm,
and do battle, but are quickly defeated. Back in the hospital, Colt reveals to Greg
that he and Vicky only eat organic food, they don’t have any pesticide chemicals in them,
which is why they were not attacked. While the swarm attacked everything else, zero organic
farms had been attacked. Colt then says he must go to the airfield, saying he knows what might work.
Seemingly convinced, Greg says he will hold off the Helicopters till he hears back from Colt.
Now at the airfield, Colt orders his organic pesticide to be loaded into a dust cropper.
Fully loaded, he jumps into the cockpit and takes off, heading to the city. He
then unloads the pesticide on the city, which kills all the locust it comes in contact with.
Greg calls off the Helicopters, and Colt laughs joyfully. Back on the ground, Colt asks what
happens next, with Greg saying there will be cleanup and that they will go to Silogen after.
The three are then horrified to see two more swarms of locusts heading to the city. With no
more organic pesticide, Vicky and Greg head to Silogen, while Colt heads back to the airfield.
Greg and Vicky enter Silogen to confront her father and ask to also speak to Gary,
who has fled. Russ tells Vicky and Greg that he might have a solution.
Meanwhile, as Gary attempts to flee, the Swarm comes after him, and in little time kills him.
Over at the airfield, Russ tells Colt that they plan to use the pheromones in the dome to attract
them back, and once they have returned, they blow up the dome. Colt agrees with the plan and
is told to fill up the plane with the pheromone and bring the locust back to Silogen. With bombs
placed in the dome, everyone evacuates from the facility. Colt flies the plane through the dome,
and they shut the doors behind him, trapping the locust inside. They attempt a remote detonation,
but the swarm interferes with the radio signal. Greg suggests using the UD-66, but Russ offers
to go back inside and detonate the device. Russ runs into the dome, and almost instantly
is attacked by the locust. He is able to arm the bomb, but at the last seconds the bomb stops.
With his last strength, Russ leans over and restarts the clock. The bombs completely
level all of Silogen and kill all the locust. Now landed, Colt runs over to Vicky, telling her he’s
sorry Russ died, and that it's finally over. Unknown to them, however, a Semi-truck heading
to Lafayette Indiana is carrying live specimens of the same locust to another dome.
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