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The Welsh coast basks in summer tranquility. Then the 'drownings' begin. But not until monstrous crustaceans crawl ashore, their pincers poised for destruction, does the world understand the threat it faces. A seafood cocktail for the strongest stomachs...

A BLOODY CARNAGE OF HUMAN FLESH ON AN ISLAND BEACHHEAD

An isolated island, home of hard-working fishermen and pleasure-seeking vacationers.

The first corpse, its head torn off, its limbs in shreds.

Then the next victim. And the next. And the next.

Only then did the people realize the hideous threat, as the most monstrous creatures ever spawned by nature took control first of the sea, then began their invasion of the land.

And suddenly the most endangered species in the world was man...

YOU CANNOT STOP THEM...

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THEM...

The mist hides the dark waters of Loch Merse, but they are here. Waiting. Watching. Hungry.

Death had come here before when Bruce McKechnie secretly murdered his brother for this estate. The place is marked by evil. But Nothing in man's power can kill like this.

Slowly, silently, they crawl from the depths, razor-sharp pincers waving, malevolent red eyes follwing the man in the night fog and the pretty girl laughing with her lover. Closer they come. Deadly as the devil himself. Nothing can stop them. Not the slashing. Not the blood. Only the last desperate scream...

WE THOUGHT WE'D KILLED THEM ALL BUT THEY'VE COME BACK... FOR REVENGE!

The beach was filled with happy vacationers. They'd forgotten THE CRABS... like a bad dream chased away by the morning sun.

We'd wiped out those mutant monsters. The giant creatures whose hunger raged for human fleash were dead.

Or where they? Scientist Clif Davenport feared the nightmare wasn't over. But he didn't know the terrifying truth. THE CRABS were back - disease ridden, mad with pain. Mad with hunger.

And on that beach were hundreds of men, women, and children. Food for...

FIRST THE VACTIONERS LAUGHED WITH PLEASURE...

THEN THEY SQUEALED WITH DELIGHT AND THEN THE SCREAMS BEGAN...

The Moon shone brightly down on them. The breeze stroked them. Laughter floated over the water from the excited bingo players at the Blue Ocean Holiday Camp.

And THE CRABS heard...

Tense, shuddering with hunger, they lurched out of the sea maddened with a need to eat. Closer they crawled, the only sound a clickety-click of their piercing, strong, razor-sharp claws...

They had come before. And humankind had beaten them. But now they were back, possessed by an uncanny intelligence, guided by forces no one on earth could understand. Not even scientist Cliff Davenport. He could only watch them coming closer... closer... as the screaming began...

When the bloodthirsty crabs are stricken with a devastating cancer, a psychopathic human attempts to aid them, a plan that requires a human sacrifice.

In 1978 the Crabs attacked Australia's Great Barrier Reef with horrendous loss of human life. Amongst the fatalities was Harvey Logan, big-game hunter.The world believed that these terrible crustaceans had been annihilated but Harvey's son, Brock, was sure that one day they would emerge from the oceans once more on a rampage of bloody carnage. Brock was also a hunter and he waited patiently for three decades. He wanted revenge as well as a Crab trophy for his collection. Then the crabs returned, this time on the Solway Firth and Brock's hunt began.

In 1975 an army of gigantic crabs, the result of an underwater nuclear experiment, attacked the Welsh coastline. The battle was bloody, many lives were lost until the crustacean invaders were defeated.

Over the ensuing years they turned up in the oceans of the World with further terrible slaughter of humans. Finally, though, it was believed that these monsters from the deep had been eradicated. Only memories of their invasions of land remained with the older inhabitants, tales of their depredations on mankind were whispered but often ridiculed by the modern generations.

Until a few of the survivors returned to the Welsh coast and began breeding secretly in a maze of caverns beneath the cliffs, preparing for a further attack on mankind.