A repairman is infected when his hand is "cut" by a certain flower which causes something encased in a cocoon to exit his mouth while he's unconscious in an emergency room of County Memorial Hospital. This causes an infection which soon leaves paramedics who brought the victim to the emergency room to become unconscious and afflicted as well. Detective Jim Bishop(Steve Railsback) enters the emergency room with a partner who was shot during a stakeout which went awry. Along with Dr. Rachel Carson(Gwynyth Walsh)and entomologist Elliot Jacobs(Don Lake), Bishop will have his hands full as hospitalized kids being mischievous enter the lab holding the cocooned insect, feeding it a large dose of NAC-5, an accelerant growth promoter, because they thought it was hungry and needed nourishment, which works as a catalyst in metamorphosing it to a substantial degree, now an insect monster on the rampage. The Lincoln Center for Disease Control(working with Department of Health) puts County Memorial Hospital under quarantine and burns down the greenhouse which contained the flower behind the insect. Developments emerge which includes the fact that a bottle of Jack helped stop the toxins(caused by the infection) from spreading throughout the bodies of two elderly ladies who get wasted, an audio recording by Elliot of the giant insect mate's "voice" actually interrupts its path towards killing Bishop, County Memorial has a laser research lab(Laser research is the wave of the future Dr. proclaims) for future benefits in molecular breakdown and DNA experiments which will be used as a method to distract the creature, and we are informed through the entomologist that future insects will breed at an alarming rate(feeding from humans slowly, as we see in the case of a nurse and scientist who are cocooned and eaten from!). Essentially a "giant bug" movie with Railsback up against an insect which walks upright and beheads innocent victims who cross its path. I think this film has a bad rep due to its ridiculous title, because BLUE MONKEY(the alternate title, INSECT, is actually more logical)is more or less reminiscent of other 50s giant insect titles, except in a modern 80s setting. The creature is darkly lit and carefully edited as it causes mayhem obviously so that it wouldn't cause chuckles if seen clearly. Railsback gets to play hero again, but will need help from Walsh and Lake if he is to conquer the fiend and its offspring. Susan Anspach is another emergency room doctor, Judith Glass(she's the one who discovers the solution to the outbreak)and John Vernon is the hospital administrator(not as much an asshole as he normally is in other movies). Joe Flaherty and Robin Duke are a couple expecting the birth of their first child, a sub-plot which has no reason to be in the movie, to tell you the truth, other than to add some comedy.

After getting pricked by an exotic plant, an old man ends up in a hospital emergency room and pukes up a larva before dying. The staff keep the bug isolated but a group of terminally ill young kids accidentally pour some growth serum on it and, you guess it, things be going down. Also on the scene is Det. Jim Bishop (Steve Railsback), who brought his shot partner into the ER just before the place is quarantined by the local government. Bishop teams with Dr. Rachel Carson (Gwynyth Walsh) and entomologist Elliot Jacobs (Don Lake) to take this mammoth bug down, despite the protestation of the hospital director (John Vernon).Like the director William Fruet's earlier SPASMS, this was shot in Canada and is played dead straight. I actually think a little humor from the leads would have helped (there are some supporting players who try to be funny). The big bug is kept mostly in the dark but does provide a few moments of gooey gore via some decapitations. Vernon only appears to have been with the production for a few days as his scenes are minimal. Future Canadian acting power house Sarah Polley plays one of the kids responsible for this mess (the killer bug, that is).

A man suffering from a bite wound is brought into a hospital. The doctors do not know exactly what is wrong with him and eventually a worm like creature comes out of his mouth and begins to kill the hospital staff. Cheap looking, ineffective horror flick. Poor lighting, scant special effects, non-existent acting, and poor direction are just are a few of the films problems.

As I was watching "Blue Monkey," I realized that, although the budget was small, I was still having a good time! Low budget movies that can do that are the best ones.It is about a small hospital that gets itself some big trouble. A patient who has contracted a serious case of gangrene is brought in and, unknown to the staff, the gangrene is thanks to a strange insect that used the patient to deposit eggs in. When they do find out about it, they catch it and call in an insect specialist, but, before he can arrive, the larva is accidentally mutated to an enormous size and changes into a giant insect that looks like a preying mantis. It runs loose in the hospital, killing people for it to use as hosts for its eggs, and only three brave people---a cop, a doctor, the insect specialist---are willing to stop it.This movie is just fun to watch (especially Don Lake as the specialist, who steals ever scene he is in). A must for fans of movies like "The Thing." Zanatos's score: 8 out of 10. Check it out!