Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes.

Today’s theme: Animal Attack

“They’re urban, they’re vermin, and THEY exterminate YOU!”

Ignore the Troma logo at the beginning of Ronald K. Armstrong’s directed, written, produced and starred in insect film and prepare for something great.

Dr. Craig (John Kilgore)’s chemicals have replaced the bug-killing pesticides in the Bugbusters supply room with one that makes the bugs bigger. After all, Dr. Craig did what you never should and pulled a Goldblum. That’s correct — he tested those drugs on himself, turned into a giant bug and then got shot in the face by his lab assistant. Now, bugs are everywhere in the city, and just being an exterminator puts Dave (Armstrong) into danger’s maw — mandible? — as he tries to defest the home and win the heart of Priscilla Basque). Dave’s partner, Steve (Jeff Lee), may screw things up for both his goals before that.

This has an all-black cast, body melting moments, cartoony aspects like how Steve gets flattened at one point, effects that look like they came from the clearance aisle, a rat puppet, evil bugs with human eyes and way more action — and romance! — than this budget would seem to indicate. In fact, every review of this movie — nearly, let’s not get hyperbolic — seemed to make fun of how cheap this looked. Maybe they should look past that and see that this has heart, brains and, well, guts.