Black Swarm (2007) (Canada)

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Hawt widowed deputy sheriff Jane Kozik moves from Manhattan to the small town of Black Stone where she grew up, looking for a safer place to raise her daughter. Yeah. Great plan. Looks like a scientist (Robert Englund) has whipped up some genetically modified wasps for the army and some of those big bastards have gotten free and now he’s in town trying to fix his mistakes. Local pest control heartthrob Devin Hall has noticed the weird insects but he’s on the way out of the slowly dying town so he ain’t stressing it. At least, he wasn’t until his sister-in-law/crush Jane moves back into the neighborhood and that old flame gets rekindled. That’ll have to take a backseat because not only are these super-wasps tough as all hell and homicidal, their victims have a strange habit of coming back from the dead. A hawt entomology professor (Dr. Katherine Randall) comes to town looking into the deaths and sets her lusty eyes on Devin. The daughter befriends the scientist, the wasps use human bodies as homes and we learn Devin is Jane’s dead husband’s twin... which makes things kind of creepy on the whole romance angle. The daughter becomes the new queen of the wasps (don’t ask), wasps fly out of a priest’s mouth (don’t ask), a blind woman gets attacked by wasps in a cornfield (don’t ask), Robert Englund has a “wasp whistle” (please, do ask) and Uncle Sam comes to clean things up and ensure their new secret biological weapon stays secret. There’s a lot going on but somehow it mostly feels like nothing is happening. It hits the right kind of stupid more than a few times... just not consistently.