Writer/director Pierce Berolzheimer’s “nature run amok” horror comedy creature feature Crabs! is inching closer and closer to release. We first heard about this movie back in late 2015, at which time it was in the post-production stage. Six years later, we finally saw a clip from the film right before it had its long-awaited premiere. Now a trailer for Crabs! has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
We still don’t have a release date for the movie, but we’re assured that it’s “coming soon”.
Produced by Berolzheimer, Noah Lang, and Evan Buxbaum, Crabs! is described as “a love letter to practical effects and old school monster movies”. Here’s a short synopsis:
A horde of murderous crab monsters descend on a sleepy coastal town on Prom Night, and only a ragtag group of outcasts can save the day.
If you want a longer synopsis, here you go:
Mutant crab mayhem engulfs a small coastal town when flesh-hungry horseshoe crabs descend on Prom Night. Against insurmountable odds, a wheelchair-bound teenager and a ragtag band of locals devise an insane plot to save their town. And maybe even the world…
In this love letter to drive-in creature features, we get freaky with multiple stages of monster – Alien style – and climax with some traditional Japanese Kaiju goodness. If you threw a Disney Channel Original Movie and the R-rated creature aisle at your local Blockbuster into an indie blender – then you get CRABS!
The film stars Dylan Riley Snyder, Jessica Morris, Robert Craighead, Allie Jennings, Bryce Durfee, and Chase Padgett.
Back in 2015, producer Noah said the film has a tone similar to Gremlins and The Lost Boys. A new press release calls it “the Zombeavers meets Godzilla versus Attack of the Crab Monsters hybrid you always craved”.
Are you looking forward to this movie? Check out the trailer, then let us know what you think about Crabs! by leaving a comment below.