You keep hoping for some comic relief, but there is none coming. True to the title, Creepy Crawlers just keeps getting creepier, starting out with one bug -- it always begins with just one, doesn't it? -- until the landscape and sky are littered with large, wiggly, shiny, hungry, computer-generated roaches. More of a visual curiosity (a la Them!) than a psychological horror (a la The Birds), Creepy Crawlers' main attraction is waiting for the money shot -- you know, when the main bad guy has his face covered in bugs. You get that shot, and more -- what happens to the sheriff is particularly grim -- in a formula horror film that follows a slightly different formula than others of its ill ilk. Production values are pretty good, with particular kudos to the cockroaches, which are rendered in stomach-turning realism. The main stars are also effective in giving their characters more than one dimension. Those frightened by insect movies should look elsewhere; those who want to be frightened by an insect movie, but with tastefully (if you can believe it) few gore effects, need look no further.