After the laser does it's thing, what exactly causes all those insects to appear?
There's no scientific or rational explanation, nor does there really need to be. Basically it's magic.
"Dan Marino should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. Would you like a cookie son?"
Awful pagan magical stuff. Maybe a gateway is opened a-la "The Mist," or maybe it's a ritualistic conjuring of an unholy plague. Nobody knows...
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It is part of the curse. The rock the androids were chipping away at and putting into the little electronic doohickies that they would hook to the masks is from Stonehenge, which is awash in supernatural elements. The rock is 7 tons, so Cockran and his goonies somehow used supernatural power to movie it from Stonehenge to Santa Mira. It is not of good, of course. No white magick involved here. It is black magic. The voice states at the beginning of the 1957 horror movie "Curse of the Demon", right as Stonehenge comes into view, "It has been written, since the beginning of time, even unto these ancient stones, that evil, supernatural creatures exist in a world of darkness. And it is also said, man using the power of the ancient runic symbols, can call forth these powers of darkness, the demons of hell." The insects were just part of the evil of the said ancient runic symbols. I would love to visit Stonehenge someday.
shareTo be honest with you, I don't think you'd be seeing much. I don't even think you can get close to them now.
shareAs others have said, it's the Stonehenge stone that Cochran stole. I can only assume that the laser is a transmission medium for the magic, although how magic and technology are supposed to mix, I dunno.
Earlier on in the movie, some woman notices the circuitry on the back of the Silver Shamrock badge and pokes at it with a metal object, causing, as Cochran put it, a "misfire". But after the laser hits the woman in the face, it is grotesquely mutilated, and one or two insects crawl over it. Imagine what that boy's head must've been like! You can even glimpse his dead eye through the mask!
I had more trouble buying the robots than the insects... without the robots, this could have been a decent Halloween story.
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