They Nest
“It's feeding time...”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 45, rated by 1 admin.
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A doctor hoping for a quiet island break finds suspicious locals and carnivorous cockroaches. The outsider-in-town plotting is familiar, but the insect attacks have an unusually convincing physical texture. A useful creature-thriller choice for a group that wants its infestation to remain genuinely unpleasant.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 3.5/10
- Plot
- 5.5/10
- Effects
- 2.5/10
- Dialogue
- 4.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 6.5/10
“The island retreat has received a terrible pest-control inspection.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 45
Synopsis and movie facts
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?
- Released
- 2000
- Directed by
- Ellory Elkayem
- Running time
- 92 min
Starring
- Thomas Calabro as Dr. Benjamin Cahill
- Dean Stockwell as Sheriff Hobbs
- John Savage as Jack Wald
- Kristen Dalton as Nell Bartle
- Tom McBeath as Eamon Wald
- Mark Schooley as Johnnie Skee
- Travis MacDonald as Enoch Piper
- Dean Wray as Josiah Bean
Research behind this pick
Researched . Explore the film references and reviews below.
- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 40249.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises convincing bug attacks while noting the familiar Arachnophobia-like structure.
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