Ariadne Shaffer in Frog-g-g! (2004)

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Muck-dwelling amphibians, with their slimy, lumpy skin, unpredictable hippity-hoppity mode of locomotion, and mythical powers to cause warts to spring up upon any human skin that makes contact with them, are primal triggers of fear and revulsion in the typical human and have been sadly underutilized in the gallery of horror-flick monsters, until Frog-g-g! (2004). A cautionary tale of imagination, insight, and a creepy creature forcing himself upon ivory-skinned human damsels, Frog-g-g! is also an indictment of a society that accepts corrupted chemical discharge seeping into a municipality’s water supply as business as usual. Who will combat this ethical complacency in the town’s civic leaders? Who will convince a cynical populace that a horrendous mutant toad is boning up a storm in unprotected bedrooms near and wide? Whoever she is, count on her having a class-A chest and no qualms about displaying it in the course of tracking down and neutralizing her web-footed nemesis.