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Release Date:
6 June 1975 (USA)
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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...
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Animal Attack
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1 win
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1 nomination
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strongly recommended!
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | 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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Also Known As:
The Hephaestus Plague (USA) (working title)
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99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
West Germany:18 |
Australia:M |
Finland:(Banned) (1975) |
Netherlands:18 |
Norway:15 |
Norway:18 (video rental version) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:PG
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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.
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Referenced in Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007)
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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.