Jarvis - Marijuana grower whose herbal steroid mutates the ticks. Becomes a human breeding ground and pops. The Ticks - Softball sized ticks with a hallucinogenic toxin. A group of inner city youths is participating in a program where they are taken into the woods and given access to hatchets and fire. Through a complicated course of events only one of the kids is killed and a forest fire kills the ticks.
Kids always carry flash paper.
Tick pods are full of maple syrup. Ecology is a bunch of bull - a forest will support numberless giant ticks. Being stabbed in the knee does little to impede movement. Never send a brain-damaged idiot to fetch the van. Anabolic steroids are painkillers.