Creepy Crawlers

A mutant African cockroach infests a remote Maine island just as young Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) goes there to shake off the effects of his heavy drinking. His first encounter is with Jack Wolk (John Savage), a local who resents Cahill buying his family's dilapidated house. The resentment ...more

You keep hoping for some comic relief, but there is none coming. True to the title, Creepy Crawlers just keeps getting creepier, starting out with one bug -- it always begins with just one, doesn't it? -- until the landscape and sky are littered with large, wiggly, shiny, hungry, computer-generated roaches. More of a visual curiosity (a la Them!) than a psychological horror (a la The Birds), Creepy Crawlers' main attraction is waiting for the money shot -- you know, when the main bad guy has his ...more