The Locusts

A young drifter unexpectedly wanders into a maelstrom of bizarre sex and shameful secrets in this drama. With a mere seven dollars to his name, Clay Hewitt (Vince Vaughn) happens upon a ranch run by Delilah Potts (Kate Capshaw), a hard-as-nails widow who inherited a cattle empire from her late ...more

Though writer/director John Patrick Kelly's star-packed debut isn't by any means a good movie, it's at least an incessantly watchable one, brimming with the kind of lurid, Southern-fried melodrama not seen since the heyday of Tennessee Williams. In fact, The Locusts' debt to Williams is downright slavish: there's an earnest drifter (Vince Vaughn); a lusty, almost-past-her-prime matriarch (Kate Capshaw); a sexually confused farmhand (Jeremy Davies) who's apparently received too many kicks to the ...more