It goes without saying that the local mayor ( Frank Deal) denies any problem, having learned from " Jaws" that it is better for people to die than for tourism to be affected. The reasons for the mutation are hinted: run-off from a giant chicken farm, where the poultry feed is laced with steroids, and a possible radiation leak from a nearby nuclear reactor. Identified as isopods, the creatures have mutated into carnivores the size of big cockroaches and begin to devour their victims both from the outside in and the inside out - a nice touch, that. As the film opens, a young TV journalist named Donna Thompson ( Kether Donohue) recalls a terrible July 4th a few years earlier when a waterborne parasite began to attack swimmers and other local residents.
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