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Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage, Kristen Dalton, Tom McBeath ...( see more  see more... ) , Mark Schooley

Dr. Ben Cahill, a fine city doctor, gets so stressed by marital problems and alcohol that he freezes up under pressure in the emergency room. To get his act back together, he decides to unwind a few m...( read more  read more... )onths in the house he and his ex bought on Orr island, an insignificant (former) fishermen place off the coast of Maine. He almost immediately becomes the butt of spite from a gang of local nobodies. After the doctor started examining, at the request of the reasonable sheriff Hobbs who leans to his side, some animal and human corpses with strange internal as well as external injuries, one of the brutes, not so handy handyman Jack Wald, has a fatal nocturnal accident crashing into Dr. Cahill's car. The doc observes one of the red cockroaches which recently infest the island has pincers, most unusual, reads up and contacts the university entomology department, where this African species isn't too well-known either. Jack's even dumber brother Eamon Wald uses violence which ends up causing the sheriff's death, so the doc has no other help then the enterprising local store clerk Nell Bartle, who takes a liking to the only educated men around, to continue investigating fighting off Eamon's gang and as they find out how bad the danger is, try to evacuate..

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PG-13, 92 min

Directed by: Ellory Elkayem

Release Date: July 25, 2000

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  • vierasesine
    May 2, 2008
    vierasesine
    I saw this film about six years ago and I've no interest in ever seeing it again. This is one of the most creepiest films I have ever seen. The idea of carnivorous cockroaches that can evolve super quickly is just....*brrh*
  • masterheng
    June 25, 2009
    masterheng
    Classical Crap of human eating bugs.
  • regenial
    January 21, 2009
    regenial
    well not that good, but still watchable
  • XzeusX
    August 12, 2008
    XzeusX
    not recommended, sorry...

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