Under attack from man-sized insects, an autistic pest-control expert must help his estranged scientist father defeat the very creatures he is being blamed for creating.

SYNOPSIS:

Jeremy Boon is a 35-year-old man with high-functioning autism who runs his own pest control business. He has few friends and can barely hold a conversation without anxiety meds. Years ago, his father, Dr. Andrew Boon, was presumed murdered while working on a military project involving insect DNA. Insects remind Jeremy what happened to his father, which fuels his life’s passion of exterminating them.

Jeremy gets the biggest job of his career, fumigating one floor in a New York City hotel where important guests are going to be staying for a U.N. peace conference. There, he is reunited with Elaine, an old friend/crush that he left behind when his family moved years ago. She is now a Senator’s secretary, divorced with a 10-year-old son. Jeremy sees a man in the hotel lobby who looks suspiciously like his long-lost father, but dismisses it as wishful thinking.

When the hotel is attacked by anthropomorphic, gun-toting, man-sized insects, Jeremy has to stay alive and protect Elaine’s bug nerd son Keith…without his anxiety meds! He bonds with the youngster, showing him the tricks of his trade by rigging giant bug traps in a few empty hotel rooms. This is before he speaks with Keith’s father Wally Crimson, who is Elaine’s ex-husband, Jeremy’s former school bully and one of the soldiers surrounding the hotel. Wally makes Jeremy promise not to put his son in danger before the Army can rescue them. Jeremy agrees and decides to lay low. Meanwhile, Elaine manages to sneak away from the room where world leaders are being held hostage by giant insects, to look for her son.

Jeremy finds out that the older man he saw truly WAS his father. Reports of Andrew’s death years ago were part of a government cover-up after he was accused of stealing a formula from his lab. After dosing himself with the formula, Andrew has the ability to pull an insect exoskeleton out of his body, turning himself into a man-sized insect. He also drugged Jeremy with the formula years ago, hoping to have an ally if his work fell into the wrong hands. And Wally was the first soldier Andrew experimented on for the military, so Andrew, Jeremy and Wally all have exoskeletons. After an intense confrontation between the three, Andrew escapes military arrest and an unconscious Jeremy is taken to an Army base by Wally.

Wally teaches Jeremy how to use his exoskeleton, including how to fly. It is fueled by adrenaline, something that Jeremy tries to avoid due to his anxiety problems. But he learns quickly. Wally fills Jeremy in on what happened to his father years ago, including the Army’s cover-up of a mutant insect drone project. When Wally realizes that the Army is putting his son in danger for selfish reasons, he teams up with Jeremy. They barge into the hotel with their bullet proof exoskeletons and guns blazing, freeing all the hostages, including Keith. Meanwhile, Andrew turns most of the giant insects back into normal-sized ones with an aerosol-based antidote, attaching it to the hotel’s archaic boiler system.

After killing scores of mutant insects herself, tirelessly looking for her son, Elaine finds herself trapped inside a stolen nuclear missile. The nuke is being shot at a part of the world where insects are traditionally eaten, which was the point of this raid all along. Jeremy courageously stops the missile and rescues his old crush while flying over the ocean at breakneck speeds. He also defeats the cockroach leader of this insect swarm, who is much more intelligent than humans give insects credit for. He masterminded this entire assault/revenge plot while the Army and Dr. Boon were blaming each other for it.

Jeremy now has enough confidence to start a relationship with Elaine. Wally promises to be present more often for his son, even though Jeremy will be too. Andrew is reunited with his son and pardoned for his crimes in exchange for designing a special prison for the few surviving mutant insects.

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