Return of the Killer Shrews

Return of the Killer Shrews

The Killer Shrews are back, and only one man remembers how to stop them...or die trying!

2012 · 84 min · ★ 5.2 · Horror

A reality TV crew charter a boat to an island for filming, one which the boat's captain had been to before and attacked by giant shrews, more than fifty years earlier.

Directed by Steve Latshaw · Written by Steve Latshaw

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