Creepy Crawly is a 2022 Thai creature film about a group quarantined in a hotel that’s home to a giant centipede and its spawn. Also known as The One Hundred.
Written and directed by Chalit Krileadmongkon and Pakphum Wongjinda (Leio: Terrifying Giant).
The Neramitnung Film-Fatcat Studios co-production stars Mike Angelo, Chanya McClory, David Assavanond, Benjamin Joseph Varney and Kulteera Yordchang.
Plot:
Fame and Phil, two popular sibling YouTubers, check in to Srichanphen Hotel for a state-mandated fourteen-day quarantine during the height of the pandemic. Also in Fame’s and Phil’s group are Leo, a quiet young man who arrives with his sister Lena and their father, and Steve, an ill-tempered American. In the hotel, they encounter strange events.
Centipedes crawl out from every nook and cranny to attack the group, and then Fame and Leo find a mysterious corpse in a fire escape.
Later they discover that a monster is lurking in the hotel: a giant centipede that resides in the human body as a way to prolong its existence.
The centipede possesses the body of a person, assumes the human shape and personality, and then seeks out its next host, on and on. So it’s impossible to tell if any of the hotel guests is actually the monster in disguise.
The giant centipede finds out that Fame has a special blood type that enables it to extend its life forever, and Fame suddenly becomes its prime target. Leo has to find a way to save Fame along with his father and sister by seeking a safe route out of the hotel now surrounded by the deadly army of centipedes…
Release:
Well Go USA will release Creepy Crawly in North America on VOD, Blu-ray and DVD on October 3, 2023.
Reviews:
“The story starts out well and the action scenes were choreographed well. But the story overall does not make sense and even the flashbacks which try to help tell what happened did not contribute anything to make the plot make sense at all. Mike Angelo is a great actor but even his great acting chops plus the amazing CGI could not lift up the movie overall.” 2 out of 10, Greensplash
“The film’s third act ultimately becomes cheesy and convoluted, with a final scene that’s totally unnecessary. Still, the film works as a standard monster flick, thanks to some solid performances from its cast led by Mike Angelo) and Chanya McClory, and some nifty visual effects as the hotel gets overrun by a swarm of centipedes that’ll give you the creeps.” ★★★ Grimoire of Horror
” …the movie came and went without leaving a lasting mark, and it was hardly a memorable or outstanding foray into the Thai horror genre. But there was just something hollow and lacking about the entire ordeal that is The One Hundred. While it was watchable, it is hardly a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time, nor is it a movie that I would recommend to fans of the Thai horror cinema.” 3 out of 10, Paul Haakonsen
Teaser trailer:
Original title:
The One Hundred aka ๑๐๐ ร้อยขา
