Crabs!

Crabs! is an upcoming American horror comedy monster movie written and directed by Pierce Berolzheimer and starring Jessica Morris and Dylan Riley Snyder, slated to be released in 2016.

Plot synopsis

Mutated by nuclear runoff in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a horde of murderous horseshoe crabs descend on the sleepy town of Mendocino, California.

Cast

Production

Crabs! was shot on location in Mendocino, California and neighboring Fort Bragg in the early months of 2015. The film was specifically written to take place in Mendocino, where writer-director Berolzheimer's family resides, and many locals were recruited as extras and production interns, while five local actors were cast in minor speaking roles.

Promoted as a "love letter to practical effects and old-school creature features",Crabs! features heavy use of practical special effects and puppetry in place of modern computer-generated imagery. Special effects on the film were supervised by Jim Ojala of Ojala Productions, who also served as a co-producer.

Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) (Greek: βραχύς / brachys = short,οὐρά / οura = tail), usually entirely hidden under the thorax. They live in all the world's oceans, in fresh water, and on land, are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton and have a single pair of claws. Many other animals with similar names – such as hermit crabs, king crabs, porcelain crabs, horseshoe crabs and crab lice – are not true crabs.

Evolution

Crabs are generally covered with a thick exoskeleton, composed primarily of calcium carbonate, and armed with a single pair of chelae (claws). Crabs are found in all of the world's oceans, while many crabs live in fresh water and on land, particularly in tropical regions. Crabs vary in size from the pea crab, a few millimetres wide, to the Japanese spider crab, with a leg span of up to 4 metres (13 ft).

About 850 species of crab are freshwater, terrestrial or semi-terrestrial species; they are found throughout the world's tropical and semi-tropical regions. They were previously thought to be a monophyletic group, but are now believed to represent at least two distinct lineages, one in the Old World and one in the New World.