After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested with a strange type of carnivorous cockroach. But when Dr. Cahill tries to warn the townsfolk of the danger, they are naturally skeptical. Will they realize the truth before it's too late?
Practical Effects
Gloriously gross practical roach effects that squish satisfyingly.
Acting
Dean Stockwell's sheriff delivers 'I've seen things' gravitas to insect nonsense.
Direction
Ellory Elkayem squeezes genuine tension from a TV movie roachpocalypse.
Director
Ellory Elkayem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ellory Elkayem later made Eight Legged Freaks (2002), completing his unofficial 'arthropods attack' duology.
This aired on USA Network in 2000 during their 'Characters Welcome' era of unhinged original movies that nobody asked for but everybody watched.
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