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Summary: THIS WILL REALLY BUG YOU!!!
Review: CREEPY CRAWLERS is the first movie in some time that made my squirm and my skin crawl; with an effective use of silence and eerily atmospheric music and some nifty camerawork, this movie really gets under your skin.
It opens with some shipmates duct taping a fellow matey, and then dumping him overboard; the body comes to rest on a sleepy little island in Maine. A surgeon (Thomas Calabro, in a marvelously controlled and humorus performance) has recently purchased a house on this island. It needs fixing up, and the only one who can help out electically is a nasty feller named Jack Wald (played with venomous relish by John Savage). Seems like Wald and his brother should have inherited the house, but since their pappy didnt pay his taxes, the house went up for sale and Calabro bought it. Meanwhile, the cockroaches are swarming and just dying to breed in their human hosts.
There are some incredibly creepy scenes, and when the bugs sprout wings, look out.
This is a great "little" movie, full of dark humor and nasty, nasty bugs!
Buy you some Raid afore you watch it, ye heah?
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Summary: Creepy Puts The Word In Creepy Crawlers!
Review: I never knew what to expect when I bought the movie "Creepy Crawlers" starring Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, Kristen Dalton, and John Savage. I figured it was just another campy B-movie or something. The cover itself looks gross-out nasty. Most people who have fears of insects or bugs probably won't even think to look at the cover twice. But I'm a horror buff, so I can handle most films with the creepy crawly things anyhow. So, I took a deep breathe and started watching Creepy Crawlers. And to my surprise, that this picture is actually a good time fun. I was also surprise, the acting was much better than I anticipated that it would be. The Story: (***1/2 stars) "When Dr. Ben Cahill takes a leave of absence from his medical practice and moves to Orrs Island off the coast of Maine, all he expects is some quiet time away. But the solace of the tiny isle is hattered when bizarre and frightening deaths begin to occur. The victims appear to have died by natural causes, yet each body has red insect bits on its flesh. When an autopsy reveals one dead man's chest cavity filled with insect cocoons, Cahill is horrified to discover that a rare breed of African cockroaches has invaded the island and they are using the inside of human beings as breeding grounds! Now, it's a race against time as the islanders try everything they can to escape the deadly insects before they are eaten alive!"
~VHS box set The FX: (**** stars) Good enough to be totally grossed out! The Score: (**** stars) Keeps you on the edge of your seat, pumping more anticipation than you would rarely expect in a horror picture. The Picture Itself: (**** stars) The actors did a great job in protraying these characters to be enough believable to make you feel for them, (and yes, even the damned creepy crawlers that make your skin crawl, literally). It's good enough to watch it again. So the next time yo uare looking for a really good horror flick, you might wanna check out "Creepy Crawlers," a well done movie that should get more than it deserves. Don't judge the cover by its looks: you might be surprised to have yourself a really good time. Also, to Amazon.com: You rated this film [R] on the flm ratings when it is actually a [PG-13] rating according to the VHS box set. [PG-13] for creature violence and peril. Now, when I watched the film myself, I didn't really see any sexual nudity or a sex scene, which I was greatful. There was very little mild language in it as well. So it would be appreciated if you could change the rating back to [PG-13]. I would be apprecitaed. All in all, Creepy Crawlers is a creepin' good time! "Veiwers beware, you're in for a scare!" ~R.L. Stine's Goosebumps
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Summary: Ain't that bad!
Review: My expectations for this movie were any thing but high - after all, I watched this right after the Oscar-winning "Bugs," and the rattle-snake riddened "Rattled," a movie right on par with "Citizen Kane" and "Lawrence of Arabia." And yet...I was pleasantly surprised. For one, the characters are pretty well fleshed out. Our hero is a former surgeon who's hands are a little shaky (unless he has a drink) and so retires to a small fishing island. The locals don't really like him, and he has to put up with constant black-outs at his isolated mansion. The sudden emergence of cockroaches doesn't make things that much happier. Gradually, the cockroaches go from lovable little squishies to killer parasites. There a few good scenes of the little buggers popping out of people's mouths, chests, and stomachs. They also learn to fly near the end There are some well done surprises here. Granted, I didn't feel particularly frightened at any part of this movie, but it will make you a bit queezy. The scene at the dinner table where our hero lifts up his fork to reveal a bug on it made me jump. There are other plusses for this movie. For once...I actually CARED if the main character lived! And the romantic interest not only can support herself and helps out, but the relationship with our hero isn't rushed and you actually do feel some chemistry between them. The only real downfall of the movie is the ending. It's one of those typical "one [insert type of animal]is still alive" endings. It's just corny and cliche. Overall, a decent horror movie. It's not a great movie, and I'm not gonna buy it for my collection any time soon, but considering what other horrors I've seen it was definately worth my time.
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Summary: Ain't that bad!
Review: My expectations for this movie were any thing but high - after all, I watched this right after the Oscar-winning "Bugs," and the rattle-snake riddened "Rattled," a movie right on par with "Citizen Kane" and "Lawrence of Arabia." And yet...I was pleasantly surprised. For one, the characters are pretty well fleshed out. Our hero is a former surgeon who's hands are a little shaky (unless he has a drink) and so retires to a small fishing island. The locals don't really like him, and he has to put up with constant black-outs at his isolated mansion. The sudden emergence of cockroaches doesn't make things that much happier. Gradually, the cockroaches go from lovable little squishies to killer parasites. There a few good scenes of the little buggers popping out of people's mouths, chests, and stomachs. They also learn to fly near the end There are some well done surprises here. Granted, I didn't feel particularly frightened at any part of this movie, but it will make you a bit queezy. The scene at the dinner table where our hero lifts up his fork to reveal a bug on it made me jump. There are other plusses for this movie. For once...I actually CARED if the main character lived! And the romantic interest not only can support herself and helps out, but the relationship with our hero isn't rushed and you actually do feel some chemistry between them. The only real downfall of the movie is the ending. It's one of those typical "one [insert type of animal]is still alive" endings. It's just corny and cliche. Overall, a decent horror movie. It's not a great movie, and I'm not gonna buy it for my collection any time soon, but considering what other horrors I've seen it was definately worth my time.
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Summary: Strong Story Line + Scary FX = Well Done Horror Flick
Review: THE NEST is one of those horror movies that are light years ahead of their better publicized yet less competently crafted brethren. What makes a horror film memorable is not just well-designed gory effects (although that helps). What does make the difference is the same quality that attracts or disinterests moviegoers with all films: does the audience connect to the characters in a way as to make us care about their fates? In THEY NEST, director Ellery Elkayem presents the hero Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) as a drunken sot of a surgeon who loses his job as an attending physician at a prestigious hospital and heads to a small island off the coast of Maine to sober up. Cahill is a good but flawed man who clearly wants to reset his moral compass. On the island he meets the lovely Nell (Kristin Hocking Dalton), with whom he is allowed to gradually form a romantic tie. The Big Bug Menace of this movie is not big at all. They are ordinary looking Africanized pincer wielding cockroaches that show their menace only when covering the ground in a rapidly moving insect blanket of pincer snapping lethality. These bugs breed, attack en masse, and lay their eggs within a human host so that their emergence smacks of the stomach bursting scene from ALIEN. The bugs seem to operate in a hive mentality; thus, they function as a collective threat to humanity.
Dean Stockwell as the local sheriff and John Savage as the hick lobsterman are surprisingly effective in backup roles. Calabro and Hocking-Dalton gradually show a growing love interest, with Hocking-Dalton taking the lead in romance. The ending is a let-down. How many times have we seen the last of the Bug Eyed Monsters get killed only to see a lone survivor fly or crawl off to repeat the process? Still, the scenes in which Stockwell and Savage try to swat away a rolling carpet of predator bugs must surely cause the audience to peek into that shoe before they put it on. Recommended.
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Summary: creepy crawlers - very good movie
Review: think i saw this a year ago and remember how good of a movie it was. had to buy the DVD right away. definitely better than the movie THE NEST. highly entertaining movie with plenty of cochroaches for everyone. swarms of roaches try to take people out one at a time and take over the island. fairly suspenseful, definitely worth checking out!
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Summary: creepy crawlers - very good movie
Review: think i saw this a year ago and remember how good of a movie it was. had to buy the DVD right away. definitely better than the movie THE NEST. highly entertaining movie with plenty of cochroaches for everyone. swarms of roaches try to take people out one at a time and take over the island. fairly suspenseful, definitely worth checking out!
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Summary: Creepy Crawlers
Review: This movie is a great movie to watch if you are in the mood to see thousands of cockroaches crawl through peoples' bodies and nest in them. Swarms of roaches try to take over an island and everybody on it. This movie is definitely a movie to check out. According to the DVD.... IT WILL MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL!
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Summary: Creepy Crawlers
Review: This movie is a great movie to watch if you are in the mood to see thousands of cockroaches crawl through peoples' bodies and nest in them. Swarms of roaches try to take over an island and everybody on it. This movie is definitely a movie to check out. According to the DVD.... IT WILL MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL!
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Summary: THE ULTIMATE COCKROACH MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: THIS MOVIE WILL REALLY IMPRESS FANS OF ROACH MOVIES. IT TAKES THE AUDIENCE ON A RIDE THAT ALL ARE NEVER TO FORGET. IT'S PLOT IS MUCH BETTER THAN THAT OF "THE NEST."
I BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS A DIRECT-TO-VIDEO RELEASE, BUT IT WAS STILL VERY GOOD EVEN THOUGH!!!
SOME OF IT IS VERY HARD TO STOMACH, BUT IT HAS A LIMITED USE OF PROFANITY IN THE FILM.
THIS IS A VERY GOOD THRILLER THAT WILL MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL!!!!
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