First sheriff’s house was overrun with cockroaches and now dead, mutilated bodies started appearing. Director: And when I thought they couldn’t possibly surprise me anymore, they did. “Sugar, I need sugar!”. Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. 29,639 Back in my weed-smoking days, I used the first words he uttered so much. | Ciarán Hinds, Votes: Soon they will discover that everything is not okay, on the contrary…. 98 min Comedy. Directors: Fred Willard, Votes: Dustin Hoffman, Votes: 127 min Stars: Erica Yohn, Landmaster is a vehicle constructed by Dean Jeffries at a cost of $350,000 just for this movie. The director’s cut is much closer to his vision, so I recommend you watch it instead of the theatrical cut. Drama. Matthew Page, G Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation [1990] Directed by Brian Yuzna ( Society, The Dentist, Bride of Re-Animator), known for his nasty and sleazy scenes, this is one of the cockroach movies with the most disgusting scenes. 0 likes. Your email address will not be published. | Jason Robards, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeff Garlin, 95 min Comedy. 127 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Luenell, Stars: Barry Sonnenfeld $49.37M, PG-13 Leave to the Japanese to make a cute animated movie about a society of cockroaches living in a messy apartment. I remember in most of the scene there was tons of cockroch (small to big) and they were invading many areas in NY. Director: This will change when Seito meets a girl… Before you start thinking that this is completely made up, let me introduce you to German cockroaches. David Bowers Kisha Brackel, Votes: Vincent D’Onofrio, Pyle from Full Metal Jacket and Orson Welles from Ed Wood, will be forever remembered by his amazing performance here. Think Joe’s Apartment but a strange twist. Nimród Antal It also features one hell of a vehicle that’s popular even today! $26.59M, PG They receive a signal from Albany, New York and decide to try to get there in their huge all-terrain vehicle. Ian Holm, Votes: Director: David Fincher Director: 91,615 Bug is a movie that is possibly the only movie on this list within the realm of possibilities. When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. David Brisbin, Michael Stuhlbarg, Votes: | Gross: | | Gross: Stars: In the best tradition of cheap and schlocky B movies, they reused that scene at least three times. Full of cockroaches that is! $198.35M, PG-13 Next thing you’ll be telling me that he smokes weed and listens to metal. Matt Stone, Stars: It is not a movie about vampires, but we are talking about cockroaches. | Gross: Reviewed September 28, 2018 via mobile . 127 min Karl Glusman, Horror, Mystery, Thriller. If you’re terrified of cockroaches, this is for sure going to be your worst nightmare come alive. $47.48M, PG-13 Gary Fleder Director: Stars: Stars: Surrounded by water and cockroaches, our doctor will have his hands full. Stars: | Gross: Ice Cube, Dom DeLuise, 88 min Upson Pratt, an evil businessman suffering from germophobia lives alone in his lofty, hermetically sealed apartment. 7,262 Directed by Brian Yuzna (Society, The Dentist, Bride of Re-Animator), known for his nasty and sleazy scenes, this is one of the cockroach movies with the most disgusting scenes. A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw's 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg's newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention. John Madden Stars: Drama. 63,931 Kevin Bray | | Elias Schwarz, Ben Burtt, If it can be called that. Animation, Action, Adventure. One night, during a thunderstorm, he notices a single cockroach crawling on the floor. Crime, Drama, Thriller. Tom Everett Scott, Stars: Severin Fiala, This claustrophobic feeling creates a very suspenseful atmosphere as our heroes are trying to fight these giant cockroaches. Gore Verbinski Kate Beckinsale, Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. Cockroach, (order Blattodea), also called roach, any of about 4,600 species of insects that are among the most primitive living winged insects, appearing today much like they do in fossils that are more than 320 million years old. James Marsden, Right from the start, you could feel that this is going to be a much deeper experience than the rest of the cockroach movies. | Delphine Seyrig, I mean the images themselves are enough to make squirm, let alone prolonged scenes of roaches crawling all over naked bodies. Looking like it was shot a couple of years earlier, They Crawl opened with a lot of good scenes. Popular Broadway actor Gary Johnston is recruited by the elite counter-terrorism organization Team America: World Police. Judi Dench, $125.60M, PG Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina. Don Gordon, Votes: However, in the meantime, it has garnered cult status and critics finally came around with more positive reviews. After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil. 92 min They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film. Idris Elba, R The final scene is truly something else and it rivals Initiation with the grossness. Starring Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Northam, the cast was good with an awesome supporting cast comprising of Josh Brolin, F. Murray Abraham and Norman Reedus of his The Walking Dead fame. “If cockroach, the oldest species on the earth can go ahead millions of years though, without a head, you too can go ahead at least a few more years from now without a tail like a lizard” ― P.S. James Spader, | Crawling inside through small holes and cracks in the building. And how could it not with a director like George A. Romero and a writer like Stephen King. The only problem is that there’s someone already living there…. I was small so I was really scared. This is before the release of Mad Max and the second wave of mostly desert post-apocalyptic movies. Two men, Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) and Phil Ryerson (Jeff Garlin), get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs. Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Nehemiah Persoff, Votes: | Jeff Garlin, An evil queen steals control of a kingdom and an exiled princess enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright. The cast was likable with a few familiar faces like John Savage and Dean Stockwell. Director: $0.92M, PG Which is a shame since he was one hell of a character. Here’s how to keep your home cockroach-free. Cockroach Infested Flat in Singapore. Biography, Drama. Danny Trejo, John Hensley, At every turn, I’m trying not to give away too much of the plot or other stuff because this is the reason why you should watch this movie. It’s continuing a long-held natural horror tradition that there must be at least one movie in the sub-genre where humans turn into zombies. | Ensure that areas like the sink and the food preparation area … Tommy Lee Jones, At the same time, the concepts that are presented here seem well-thought-out and innovative. One of the first scenes in the movie features a young lady laying half-naked on the bed, moaning and covered in cockroaches. 1. | I mean, the opening scene features a cockroach wriggling in a cup of coffee with a man talking on the phone in the background. The landscape is filled with huge scorpions and, you guessed it, killer cockroaches. 109 min There is something so inherently vile and disgusting about these poor insects. In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. Infinitely cute and entertaining, Joe’s Apartment is one of those heart-warming comedies that you can watch over and over again. Extremely entertaining and still looking good, especially after that 4K remaster, Men in Black is always worth one more watch. Petr Ratimec, Votes: Director: While investigating the case, he questions the mayor but he seems apprehensive like he’s hiding something. | | 190,373 So, without further ado let’s jump in this infestation. Drawing inspiration from another movie on this list, Twilight of the Cockroaches, this is not just a movie about cockroaches. James Corden, | Stars: Stars: Most people would much rather stomp a cockroach than study one. Vicki Lewis, | | Stars: Jessica Chastain, We battled roaches for at least a year and a half before I stunbled on Boric acid. | | Matt Damon, Three super-powered little girls constantly save the world (or at least the city of Townsville) from monsters, would-be conquerers and a few other gross things. The way the jokes are constructed and characters developed just screams eighties. | | 118 min After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa. With a visceral and nightmarish atmosphere, Initiation is very different from other Silent Night, Deadly Night movies. Jon Turteltaub Monica Bellucci, When you see the movie, you’ll know what I’m talking about. | | 47,251 93 min 105 min It took a pest control crew in Sevierville, Tenn., about six hours to tackle a German cockroach infestation that was so severe, the department of health was called in, too. | In these movies with cockroaches, they most often used Madagascar hissing cockroach which some people keep as pets. Director: Terra Formars looked like one of those The Asylum productions, trying to appeal to science fiction and creature feature lovers. Stars: However, here are critical reasons why cockroach pest control is essential. Also known as Creepy Crawlers, it was pretty logical that this movie was made a year earlier than They Crawl. Stars: JoBeth Williams, Joe’s Apartment is that movie. 579,862 Moving from one apartment to another through pipes and other holes in shared walls. | $31.18M, R Director: $0.20M, PG Stars: Stars: The rest of the cast is relatively familiar making They Crawl a bearable experience. Opening with a scene where a girl finds a cockroach in her sandwich, this movie is a standard-issue eighties horror. Elle Russ, Especially if you’re looking for movies with cockroaches. Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms. Kevin Spacey, | | | An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. 121 min Look out for signs of a cockroach infestation such as droppings, cast skins and egg cases, coupled with an unpleasant odour in dark, undisturbed areas like cupboards, kitchenettes, or under refrigerators. $4.06M, R George A. Romero All of them used live cockroaches with only a couple resorting to the CGI or practical effects. | 97 min Comedy, Drama, Family. If you add to that really good pacing and mysterious story, you got yourself quite a movie. Julia Roberts, 110 min She meets Fima, an enigmatic bookstore owner that seems to have some sinister intentions. | Gross: | Gross: A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home. 118 min $3.44M, PG | In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. And burrow into your ear. More important than finding and eradicating a cockroach nest is making the home inhospitable to … In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. Morgan Freeman, Director: $53.27M, PG-13 Luc Besson Joe just got in New York and is looking to start his life here after finishing college. Stars: | | Gross: With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out. This homage to cult horror shows from the fifties like Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror has become exactly that! I think this was a wise decision as those giant scorpions did not look good. 14,616 Too bad the relationship between cockroaches and humans wasn’t properly explored. Stars: Horror, Thriller. | Gross: I remember I was watching this movie a long time ago like around 1998 or 2000 or something. Jennifer Kent Essie Davis, | They’ve used over 20.000 live cockroaches while making it and it fucking shows. Xolani Mali, Votes: Robert Englund, | | | Just to put that in perspective there are three animated mainstream movies about ants and lions. | Gross: 102 min Nowadays these scenes are so rare. And then you hear the phone ring and you know someone is going to pick it up. Director: 27,109 Dylan O'Brien, The commercials featuring General George S. Merlin, Pest Eliminator were hilarious! Steven Soderbergh This was nothing compared to this New York cockroach infestation, with over one million German cockroaches located in a single apartment. Bruce Willis, Christopher Plummer, After consulting with a coroner, she thinks that the culprit might be a strange cult called Trillion. If you have a roach infestation, you may have noticed that the roaches tend to congregate in one or more areas, usually the kitchen or the bathroom. Cockroaches are very resourceful insects that can enter your home in a number of different ways, including: 1. Compared to the rest of the cockroach movies, it’s pretty much the worst, although it has this sleazy quality. Tarsem Singh Christin Rankins, TV-Y7-FV Mr. Miyagi is back and he takes a new pupil under his wing; a troubled adolescent girl. This, actually, makes it even more interesting and moody to the viewers from the rest of the world. Action, Comedy, Crime. Ahead, entomologists explain why you don't really need to worry about cockroach bites—but rather how they can make you sick if you have an infestation. | Susan Sarandon, Sarah Habel, PG Cleanliness is key to preventing a cockroach infestation in your home. Adam Driver, This makes confirming your infestation difficult. Ken Watanabe, Votes: Especially if you want to get fucked up and trash it while watching. Heath Ledger, 4. Drama, Thriller. Late last week, we told you about an event being held by Tokuyama Zoo this summer: the Cockroach Fest. After Cronos, where we also have bugs present, Guillermo del Toro broke into the mainstream with this science-fiction/horror about giant mutated cockroaches. 86 min And he doesn’t know how to drive, there are just too many coincidences! | Gross: This post-apocalyptic road movie is based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny. Not to mention the whole outcast angle. Elizabeth Lail, | 98 min Chester, Votes: Stars: Dan Ewing, PG-13 Roaches are, in fact, an extremely nutritious and well balanced food.They're high in protein, moderately high in fat, contain a number of essential minerals, and are high in vitamins A, C, and F. They're also very high in fiber (if you don't peel them before eating). In case you were wondering, the official name is katsaridaphobia or cockroach phobia. The working title for this movie was Blatella which translates to cockroach and I think it was a much more appropriate title. I remember there was a short scene of a blonde women (i think) stepping out of a tub and then stepped on a medium size cockroah and it … Director: Adventure, Comedy, Drama. Julia Roberts, Compared to the rest of the cockroach movies on this list, this one has the least footage. In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. I mean, I know it’s a stretch, but it’s sure more realistic than your straight-forward cockroaches-eat-humans flick. Stars: If you’re not familiar with the franchise, it’s about a killer Santa Claus character, a theme that was dropped with this iteration. | Jay Baruchel, Franklin J. Schaffner Larry Charles If there were an option to give zero stars I would. In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces. Four men attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas fall prey to the Elite Hunting Club, who are hosting a gruesome game show of torture. $1.17M, R The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. Set in Maine and featuring a pretty nasty story, you would think that this movie was written by Stephen King. | Gross: Hitching a ride on bags, backpacks, suitcases and other containers. Possibly the best-looking monster on this list, Edward is one ugly-looking motherfucker. | Julian Sands, Votes: | | A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future. 517,213 Steve McQueen, This is a surreal and pulpy ride that needs to be seen to be believed. WBZ-TV's Christina Hager reports. | 48,964 It’s been a couple of years since I went through all the Freddy movies so I almost forgot about The Dream Master. | This is also the only movie with cockroaches that’s animated. A young newlywed couple honeymoon in Europe, where obstacles challenge their ability to sustain the marriage. Ahh, the nineties, a time when a police detective could come to the crime scene wearing a tracksuit. Alicia Silverstone, | | In Damnation Alley we follow four soldiers who managed to survive the nuclear apocalypse. I walked into the room and set a bag down when I noticed the first roach crawling on the dining table. This is also a phenomenal black comedy with a lot of slapstick humor. Comedy, Fantasy, Horror. During their travels, our band of survivors will run into a city that’s infested with cockroaches. Stars: This inspires them to open their own day-care center. | With an original script and an authentic feel to it, Bug keeps twisting and turning, keeping the viewers’ attention peeled to the screen. Linda Fiorentino, We have seen it a million times and we can easily watch it one more time. To make the dangerous journey, Joel discovers his inner hero to be with the girl of his dreams. After all, the main villain in Men in Black is a giant cockroach-like creature. In a monster-infested world, Joel learns his girlfriend is just 85 miles away. 83,622 Maria Conchita Alonso, However, the next time they fall asleep…. $20.64M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect. Drama, Horror, Mystery. Robert De Niro, Don Cheadle, 177,234 Carried by the ordinary roach it spread quickly and caused a lot of death and suffering. A cockroach is considered a pest and homes having cockroach problems are thought to be dirty and rundown. Brian Levant