Jamie Smith-Jackson

A massive earth tremor opens a deep crevasse in the California dessert, releasing a bizarre and deadly breed of foot-long cockroaches which threaten to destroy the city of Riverside before spreading across the country.

Clint Eastwood directs this story of a disillusioned businessman who tries to isolate himself at his beach house but is unable to turn away a free-spirited girl who appears on his doorstep.

When the wife and child of a district attorney are among the victims killed during a robbery-gone-wrong, the town votes to allow itself to mass-arm.