That’s right move over Sharknado, there’s a new hybrid creature/natural disaster ridiculous high concept film in town. This film goes by the just as amazingly convoluted name Lavalantula. According to the SYFY channel last week, Lavalantula will be their new creature film coming to us sometime in the year 2015. Normally the title and movie poster alone would get the fans interested and ready for such a film but oh no there’s more. The film will take part as the closet thing to a Police Academy Reunion the world is ever going to see. That’s right, the film will have there action hero in the form of Steve Guttenberg! However that’s not all, the film will also co-star Police Academy alumni Leslie Easterbrook, and the man of a thousand voices, Michael Winslow.
The summary of the film so far is as simple as you can get:A group of giant lava spitting tarantulas will burst out of an ancient set of volcanoes in the middle of the Santa Monica Mountains, and wreck havoc in down town Los Angeles and it’ll be up to our cast of Police Academy cadets to save the day.
While this movie does sound dumb, it does have a saving grace. Director Mike Mendez of Big Ass Spider! (2013) fame is in charge of this production. Clearly this film is on the nose and going to be a comedy, and Mendez will be in his element there. The film is to be released this upcoming summer and I on hand can’t wait for this film to be released. I just hope Michael Winslow will use his amazing powers of voices to defeat the giant killer lava-spewing spiders.
Hopefully this will be the next Sharknado…and I actually mean that as a compliment.
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