The Top Ten List of the Absolute Best Giant Bug Movies

Bugs may be faster and stronger than us; they may be able to suck our blood, and they may reproduce faster than we can kill them, but at least we have one advantage: our size. We can swat them with our hands, or with a rolled up newspaper. And we can step on them and crush them like a bug.

Giant Man Eating Bugs on the other hand, don't have that weakness. They're fast, vicious and freakishly huge.

Here is my list of the top ten Giant Bug Movies featuring an assortment of enormous insects.

Giant intelligent bugs battle space marines on alien worlds. Impressive bugfights and special effects.

An alien spacecraft crash lands on Earth and its occupants are strung by a mosquito, which immediately mutates into a Giant Killer Mosquito the size of a german shepherd. And it has a big appetite to match.

A government experiment goes horribly wrong and a sexy big breasted women are turned into human bees. They then go about taking their clothes off a lot and killing all the guys they mate with. Great 1970s exploitation cinema.

Yet another government project gone awry -- this time it's nuclear testing -- leads to giant murdering ants that go on a rampage and ruin a lot of picnics.

Although the special effects are dated, this is a really good movie. The ants disagree, however, claiming that it depicts them in a sterotypical fashion. They have lodged complaints and have boycotted this film.

In this movie the government screws up yet again and another experiment gone wrong leads to giant locusts eating their way through Chicago.

William Shatner delivers an excruciatingly so-bad-it's-good performance as a man battling giant carnivorous spiders. Also features a commendable supporting actress performance from Bessie the Cow. Don't ask. There is no escaping their web of terror!

At least they can't blme the government for this one: a cosmetic company's experimental antiaging serum made from Royal Wasp Jelly results in the test subject turning into a Giant Man Eating Wasp. If you love cheesy 1950s horror flicks, this one is one of the best.

Giant black scorpions live miles underneath the earth eating - what? Then an earthquake releases them from their underground lair and they discover that humans are quite tasty.

In a future New York City, cockroaches are spreading a disease the kills children. To combat the illness, government scientists breed genetically engineered cockroaches to combat the disease-carriers.

But then the mutant cockroaches start to breed and to adapt in order to mimic their prey. Now the man-sized coclroaches are are breeding lke, well, cockroaches and threatening to overrun the City.

This is one of the best giant bug movies, in my opinion.

Fire-spewing giant cockroachlike things live underground until an eathquake forces them above-ground. They are virtually indestructible and cook people with fire that spurts out of their behinds.

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