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Jon Wright. Frostbite A bright spark decided we should shoot in January, and by some miracle we managed to escape the worst of the bad weather. A date movie with severed heads. That side of things never worried me, if there ever was a country with a sense of humour and the ability to laugh at themselves… Jon Wright is the director of Grabbers.
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More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Police officer Lisa Nolan comes to Aran Island, Ireland, to take charge during a colleague's two-week holiday.
Simultaneously, blood-thirsty, sea-dwelling aliens arrive at the quiet island to propagate. As dead whales wash up on shore and people start mysteriously disappearing, officers and a few locals slowly discover their peril along with one sure defense - high blood alcohol levels, which the aliens can't stomach.
As a storm approaches, enabling hungry hatchlings access to the locals, an open bar kicks off a desperate bid for survival as inebriated police and friends stagger to remain cognizant long enough to thwart the alien invasion. Last call at the bar. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia While writer Kevin Lehane was backpacking across the world and being bit by mosquitoes, he heard the urban legend that eating Marmite a vitamin B rich yeast spread prevents mosquito bites.
Hearing that, he wondered whether mosquitoes also got hungover from drunk people's blood. The thought stayed with him until he returned home and wrote the script for Grabbers based on the premise 'get drunk to survive'. Quotes Garda Lisa Nolan : You're drunk. Crazy credits "The events and characters depicted in this motion picture are a mixture of fact, fiction and fiction that is a product of inference from fact.
Connections Featured in Projector: Grabbers User reviews Review. Scenes of the port were shot in Rathlin, whilst Donegal stands in for Erin's windswept beaches, and it's all highly effective.
Penned by Cork native Kevin Lehane, Grabbers is atmospheric and surprisingly subtle, especially in its episodic early scenes. A pod of whales washes up dead with mysterious injuries. The crew of a fishing boat disappears. A local lobsterman Belfast actor Lalor Roddy catches a strange, octopus-like creature in his trap.
A lot of this takes place at dusk, with Wright bathing everything in eerie blue light. There's also a nicely designed central beastie — indeed, beasties — which bucks the trend of computer-generated creatures being overused and completely annoying. The effects work holds its own against much larger pictures, and Wright knows when to show the many-tentacled, tongue-lashing terrors and when to let our imaginations run away with us. Business Directory Ad. Hotels, bars and restaurants in the Moville area have been enjoying a vital boost in January trade since the strong cast and crew of comedy-horror 'Grabbers' rolled into town.
It tells the story of giant squid-like creatures who attack the inhabitants of an Irish seaside village until someone discovers the monsters don't like the flavour of drunk people.
Dominic McDermott runs a mobile coffee barista and sales have soared since shooting on the Irish Film Board-backed movie began nearly a month ago. He follows the film crew around on location in his coffee bar-on-wheels and has seen sales of his lattes, cappuccinos, mochas and espressos jump almost ten-fold.
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