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4.7/10   603 votes
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Director:
Writers:
William Castle (writer)
Thomas Page (novel)
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Release Date:
6 June 1975 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
They Look Like Rocks...Possess A High Intelligence...Have No Eyes...And Eat Ashes...They Travel In Your Car Exhaust...They Make Fire...They Kill. more
Plot:
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Blood, Bats and Future Shock - Chosen Survivors
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strongly recommended! more (32 total)

Cast

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Bradford Dillman ... Prof. James Parmiter

Joanna Miles ... Carrie Parmiter
Richard Gilliland ... Gerald Metbaum
Jamie Smith-Jackson ... Norma Tacker (as Jamie Smith Jackson)

Alan Fudge ... Prof. Mark Ross

Jesse Vint ... Tom Tacker

Patty McCormack ... Sylvia Ross
Brendan Dillon ... Charlie
Frederic Downs ... Henry Tacker (as Fred Downs)
James Greene ... Reverend Kern
Jim Poyner ... Kenny Tacker
Sam Jarvis ... Taxi Driver
Bard Stevens ... Security Guard
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Hephaestus Plague (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
99 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Most of the cockroach models used in this production were made by Karoly Fogassy, whose day job was a Technical Illustrator at the University of California at Riverside. For years afterward, visitors to his studio on campus were treated to the stares of the creepy bugs. more
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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
strongly recommended!, 17 January 2004
9/10
Author: Eileen McHenry from Matango Island West

This is a dandy little nature-run-amok film, in which giant cockroaches from the center of the earth make their appearance in a small farming community. Bradford Dillman was never better than he is here as the tortured Dr. Parmiter. He fairly sweats acting genius through his beard stubble.

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