Search - Creepy Crawlers on DVD

Samuel K. (Solvanda)
Reviewed on 7/15/2018...

I've watched this movie multiple times now. I don't know what's wrong with me. Maybe it is the director, Ellory Elkayem, was also responsible for "Eight Legged Freaks"? (And you know, who can't resist spider slime sudoriferously suppurating from a punctured car roof into someone's gaping maw?) It's sort of a B movie, but then maybe not. Some well known actors here too. You know, if movies don't keep me entertained, I'll start poking around online, call someone, or fall asleep. This title keeps me fixated. Not sure why.

Originally entitled "They Nest". It's available for streaming on Prime now, if you got that. Otherwise, put it on your Wishlist!

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Ain't that bad!

TrezKu13 | Norfolk, VA | 02/09/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"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."

Creepy Crawlers

Ben Colledge | Altoona, PA USA | 11/12/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"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!"

THIS WILL REALLY BUG YOU!!!

Michael Butts | Martinsburg, WV USA | 02/28/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"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?"