A group of twenty-year-old looking teenage city slickers go out to the woods with two social workers as part of a wilderness retreat. The group is your standard early 1990's horror movie teenager cliches: brooding dude, quiet girl, wannabe gangbanger and so on. Luckily for the viewer none of them are annoying and their banter is kinda funny. Like when the gangbanger keeps loudly lamenting that he should have brought his piece. At first, things go alright, but then our heroes find out that the patch of woods they're in is about to be taken over by very large ticks! Nasty.
TICKS, or Infested as it was originally released, is an alright movie. No real ups or downs, steady pace, okay special effects, tolerable acting, mild violence, zero nudity, zero tension. Overall, it's an alright time-waster, but just too bland for it's own good. There's never any shocking or stand out moments. The movie just plugs along and then it's over.
Worth a nostalgic watch for fans of 90's horror, but others will probably be bored.
