Grabbers (2012)

94 min · Aliens, Dark Comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

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Directors

Jon Wright

Cast

Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Lalor Roddy, David Pearse, Bronagh Gallagher

The story

Ciarán O'Shea (Richard Coyle), an alcoholic Garda is assigned to a new partner, Lisa Nolan (Ruth Bradley), a workaholic. His resentment only grows when Nolan, seeking to impress her superiors, volunteers for temporary duty at a remote Irish island. After discovering mutilated whale corpses, the quiet community slowly comes to realise that they're under attack by bloodsucking tentacled aliens creatures which they dub "Grabbers".

Catalogue themes and tags

Bloodsucker, Drunk, Flying Saucers, Gegenwart, Inseln, Irland, Police, State of Emergency, Whale, alien invasion

Genres

Aliens, Dark Comedy, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

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