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Film
FilmR1997
Mimic
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form. From TMDB
110 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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Mimic is a 1997 horror science fiction film, directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam and Giancarlo Giannini.
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60 of 110 · most liked firstThe line of @realgdt.bsky.social movie figures from NECA is still one of the best collections they’ve released. I do wish we had gotten a few more films and shows added. Crimson Peak, The Strain, and Mimic would have all yielded some tea fun figures.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'M WATCHING THE PIPER INTERVIEW AND SHE'S A FAN OF THE MIMIC... SHE READ ALL OF FAZBEAR FRIGHTS AND TALES... (she had nightmares about Eleanor even lmao) SHE KNOWS SUSIE IN COMING LOOKS LIKE HER... SHE WANTS FETCH IN THE MOVIE... THIS IS WHY SHE'S THE GOAT ABBY "Elizabeth" SCHIMIDT
neutral · AI labelView post →Mimic (1997) Dir. Guillermo del Toro – Better than any giant bug film should be, thanks to del Toro’s amazing eye and Mira Sorvino acting with conviction. On the surface a fun 50’s creature feature update but with real atmosphere and menace that elevate it well beyond the genre’s roots.🎞️📽️
positive · AI labelView post →Mimic |1997 www.imdb.com/title/tt0119675 #NowWatching #filmsky #horrormovies ·three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind·
neutral · AI labelView post →Generally, most monster movies COULD be told in such a way that they're horror movies, but that's not usually the case. Like, Mimic is definitely a monster movie that also works as a horror movie, but you can't get mad at Lake Placid or Slither or Tremors for not scaring you
neutral · AI labelView post →movie scene where the guy is miserable #fnaf #mimic
neutral · AI labelView post →thank you Mimic "The Mimic" Murray for presenting us the fnaf 2 movie teaser :D #fnaf #mimic
neutral · AI labelView post →Picking a random film from my collection to show off for no real reason! Year 2, Day #171 "Mimic" (Guillermo del Toro/1997) Excellent sci-fi/horror from Guillermo del Toro. Great cast in this one too! Recommended, check it out at some point.
positive · AI labelView post →***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on January 13th on #4K in the US from @kinolorber.com: #Mimic (1997)! From master mythmaker Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) comes a “terrifying film of great elegance” (San Francisco Chronicle). Starring Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite),
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was 9 I saw Mimic at a drive-in because the guy my mom was dating took us to see it but failed to tell my mom it was a horror movie. She was not amused. 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →When his father was taken, Del Toro was making Mimic, the only film he worked on with Harvey Weinstein. Del Toro later said that dealing with the kidnappers was easier than dealing with Weinstein because "I at least understood what the kidnappers wanted."
neutral · AI labelView post →Showing Guillermo del Toro’s compromised cockroach movie #Mimic for #TerrorTuesday tonight. 🪳 🪳 🪳
neutral · AI labelView post →okay. here too . .. explodes into little cubes that scatter like that one windows movie maker transition #mimic #sona #oc
neutral · AI labelView post →One more @bloody-disgusting.com review for the day, this one of the beautiful new 4K release for @realgdt.bsky.social's MIMIC, courtesy of @kinolorber.com.
neutral · AI labelView post →me when 1 millisecond of fnaf movie spoilers (lobotomize me please) #fnaf #mimic
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: Guillermo del Toro declined the chance to direct this film. He would later direct ‘Mimic’ for Miramax, but had similar creative battles with the studio as Kevin Yagher had on this film, and both men eventually disowned the final films. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d love to have ROM 1, sweet book! I’m going with Uncanny X-Men #19 (1966) first appearance of the Mimic, Calvin Rankin. Seems like the X-MCU could have a ton of fun with a Mimic cameo/appearance in a show or movie, when they get going.
neutral · AI labelView post →Portia: combine Arachnophobia (movie) with Mimic (movie), and you'll get the picture. Sulaf: vampire. THE vampire. Drinks enough blood, she fully transforms into what is easily described as a demon. Heals back from impaling, dismemberment, etc.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved this movie and I always seem to try to watch it around the same time I rewatch Mimic which was also in 97. I feel like they have very similar style choices and vibes.
positive · AI labelView post →Manga "Monster Collection" - 1998 Movie "Mimic" - 1997 😏 I wonder how many actually remember that movie. I watched it by accident and none of my friends and acquaintances had never mentioned it before or after.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mimic 👀 (Check out this "The Thing-inspired" movie poster, that uses my Sonic SFM port of that IDW shapeshifting octopus 🐙. Absolutely awesome work and homage here.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Started the week seeing @realgdt.bsky.social latest movie. Tonight, seeing his first movie, #Cronos, on the big screen. One of only 2 of his movies I haven’t seen on the big screen (just leaves DEVIL’S BACKBONE but will hopefully happen). And, MIMIC came out on 4K this week as well.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Judas bug in Mimic as a 1997 film is another good example of the 90s love of this.
neutral · AI labelView post →I enjoyed this film check out the trailer to #Mimic : www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BAc...
positive · AI labelView post →I'm watching man-sized moths because I'm re-watching MIMIC after umpteen years and I'm so giddy because this film creeped & grossed me out so much as a teenager that it's almost poetic. Alone the Se7en inspired opening...Long live late 90s horror films! #Filmsky #HorrorSky youtu.be/ts3bXCDqa4k?...
positive · AI labelView post →Well, I didn't end up ordering Mimic or Rabid as the preorder for this Tsui Hark film from Cult Epics showed up in my inbox and I just could not resist! cultepics.com/product/don-...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Mimic 2 I started this journey and I'm gonna finish it. #horror #horrorsky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Share Your Fave... VAMPIRE MOVIE: Sinners ZOMBIE MOVIE: [REC] HAUNTING MOVIE: The Possession (2012) CREATURE FEATURE: Mimic FOUND FOOTAGE: Creep SLASHER: Candyman COSMIC HORROR: Hellraiser (this counts) PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR: Session 9 HORROR COMEDY: Slither
neutral · AI labelView post →SPOOKYTOBER IV Day 29 - Mimic (1997) . One of the problems I have with this film is the lack of Green, it was only seen on the poster kind of misleading. Aside from that a really fun giant bug movie, makes up for how mid Stung was last year, it was good and the bug designs were very cool. . 7/10
positive · AI labelView post →I’ve been drawing lego movie stuff but hey what a surprise, mimic content? Crazy! #fnaf #mimic
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️ Movie night! Tonight's pick is Guillermo del Toro's MIMIC (1997). @xshike.bsky.social is watching with me. We luckily both live in cockroach-free areas.
neutral · AI labelView post →#TonightsMovie part 2 is Guillermo del Toro's Mimic, starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham, Charles S. Dutton, Alexander Goodwin, and Alix Koromzay
neutral · AI labelView post →Sanguine Noble [Writheblood Ruins]: ✅ Oh, the satisfaction of using weapons that build status and then summoning a Mimic Tear BOSS: Fuck you ME: ding ding ding MIMIC TEAR (deep horror movie voice): Actually, fuck *you*
neutral · AI labelView post →Dean must never watch Mimic, Guillermo del Toro's English debut/giant cockroach movie. Although now I feel like watching it.
positive · AI labelView post →Mimic (1997) watched the director's cut. Just gotta love them bugs in the movie 👍🏻
positive · AI labelView post →Hmmm. This is a good question. The Most Dangerous Game is definitely one. So is Pickman's Model. The short story they based Mimic on sticks out because Del Toro got a whole film out of like 3 pages.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m attempting to do the 1 horror movie a day thing for October and I’m starting with Guillermo del Toro’s American debut Mimic which I’ve somehow never seen.
neutral · AI labelView post →Somehow I forgot that Almodóvar had Del Toro’s back post-Mimic and produced this film #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →Up now on YouTube my newest short film "Mimic" Made with a group of students from Texas Tech for the 48 hour film challenge. Please watch and share it around! youtu.be/PCpP_bYjDto?si… #film #filmmaking #indiefilm #horror #scriptsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 📽️💀 The Mimic (2017) #horror #thriller
neutral · AI labelView post →I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed Clayface. Felt like a throwback to a lot of 90s B and C genre films that I grew up with (think Darkman, The Crow, Mimic). Hoping this opens the door to more genre experimentation with DC properties beyond what will be an inevitable Swamp Thing film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Feliz cumpleaños a Guillermo del Toro. Watch his American film debut MIMIC for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/movies/5f...
neutral · AI labelView post →Harvest of Terror: A Horror Game Awards Halloween Showcase 2026. In the comments of the video user @killterm wrote a helpful list of the game titles with timestamps, mentioning whether they are **World Premiere** trailers. All in all there are 55 world premiere trailers shown in the showcase. ::: spoiler @killterm's comment for reference (click on this line to expand) 5:58 Echograph 6:56 Gun Knife Bomb [World Premiere] 7:42 DONUT PANIC 8:40 My Little Cafe Nightmare 9:34 Dead Watch…
neutral · AI labelView post →okay for my friends’ annual halloween film fest, should i pick: MIMIC (1997), which i have never seen even tho i love that there guillermo; or SAINT CLARE (2024), which has the kind of bad reviews that could either be v deluded or v accurate
neutral · AI labelView post →Guillermo Del Toro's sci-fi horror film Mimic celebrates its 28th anniversary today! The creature feature was famously marred by creative interference from the Weinsteins and fell short financially but still spawned two sequels. #Filmsky #Mimic #Horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? The Faculty (1998) and Mimic (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →Continuing on in the #BingeMoviesChallenge with a rewatch of… Mimic (1997) #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Share your fave: Vampire Movie: Sinners Zombie Movie: The Serpent and the Rainbow Haunting Movie: The Changeling Creature Feature: Mimic Found Footage: Late Night With the Devil Slasher: Candyman Cosmic Horror: Annihilation Psychological Horror: Don't Look Now Horror Comedy: Ready or Not
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching: Mimic (1997) #horrorsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Picked these up yesterday from the Kino Lorber sale. Mimic because it was GDT's birthday yesterday, and Cry Baby as for the longest time, it was the only John Waters movie I had seen and I have been meaning to rewatch it after watching several of Waters' movies this year.
neutral · AI labelView post →Mimic is such a hot mess of a film. I can see Guillermo del Toro in it, but it seems like it got butchered in the cutting room? Maybe the producers hated it? Maybe he just couldn't make it work? A shame, because it was an interesting concept and clearly had an ok budget.
negative · AI labelView post →The West has made great strides in monsterfucking, but we need to go beyond the likes of Minotaur Milking Farm. We need more gelatinous cubes and mimics. Sex Chests and the bug ones from the movie Mimic, starring Mira Sorvino.
neutral · AI labelView post →556/—‘Mimic’ GDT’s first English-language film, and it has many of his cinematic signatures (child-like wonder, sympathetic monsters, practical FX). Sorvino is a bug doc who genetically engineers a superbug that mimics humans. Unfairly, others must atone for her sins #Horror365Challenge #MutantFam
positive · AI labelView post →MIMIC | A Short Horror Film youtu.be/qGOstBqhh3E?... via @YouTube
neutral · AI labelView post →MIMIC (the del Toro film)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie night friends: MIMIC
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Movie: The Lost Boys Zombie Movie: Kingdom Haunting Movie: Ghost Ship Creature Feature: Mimic Found Footage: Paranormal Activity- The marked ones Slasher: Halloween (All of them! 🧡🎃🔪) Cosmic Horror: The Void Psychological Horror: Rosemary's Baby Horror Comedy: The Conference
neutral · AI labelView post →Spooky Season Movie 29: Mimic I. Love. This. Movie. It's one of my favorite creature features and my favorite Guillermo Del Toro film. It's just a masterpiece of deeply unsettling creatures and sci-fi horror. It's right up there with Alien for me.
positive · AI labelView post →just watched Mimic (1997) which takes place in new york and i think from now on i'm just going to imagine mamdani is mayor in every movie about new york
neutral · AI labelView post →The way the Mimic rips itself in half to get into the subway car and then scuttles off... HELL YEAH. This movie KNOWS the assignment.
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