They Nest
They Nest (also known as Creepy Crawlers) is a 2000 American science fiction horror film directed by Ellory Elkayem and starring Thomas Calabro, Dean Stockwell, John Savage, and Kristen Dalton.
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| Directed by | Ellory Elkayem |
| Written by | John Claflin Daniel Zelman |
| Starring | Thomas Calabro Dean Stockwell John Savage Kristen Dalton |
| Distributed by | The Kushner Locke company |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
Stressed by marital and alcohol problems Dr. Ben Cahill freezes up under pressure in the emergency room. He decides to unwind a few months in the house he and his ex bought on Orr island, a fishing community off the coast of Maine.
Here he starts examining, at the request of sheriff Hobbs, some animal and human corpses with strange internal as well as external injuries.
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.
He discovers that these cockroach-like insects that burrow into people and nest inside them. At first, some of townspeople began to suspect that Cahill was responsible for the deaths of their friends, until they see a swarm of the mutant insects fly overhead. Now believing Cahill's story, the townspeople decide to fight back against the deadly Invaders, resulting in more deaths. Cahill, his girlfriend, Nell, and two others get in a boat and try to reach the mainland, until the military is called in to deal with the problem. However, it's revealed that one of the bugs had made it to the mainland, ending the film ambiguously.