thesar-2 I was told this was a LAUGH-OUT-RIOT horror-comedy, and was told incorrectly. That said, I laughed a bit here and there, but this enormously clichéd, predictable and hardly original alien invasion film barely stood above the rest. It even had a completely uninspired creature. The saving grace was the moments of comedy – though you had to wait until the second half and the alcohol consumption "twist." Perhaps not to be taken too seriously, it might be a tad fun. I know I would've loved this as a kid. Cheers!

meddlecore Grabbers is an Irish horror-comedy-romance flick in vein of Monsters. Except, in this case, the beasts are giant aquatic starfish-like creatures who grab their victims by impaling them with their tentacles- prior to draining their blood.We follow a drunk police officer, as he teams up with a new recruit; a local biologist; a fellow alcoholic fisherman; and a couple bar owners, as they try to figure out what these creatures are...and more importantly...how to stop them.Eventually, they discover that being drunk renders your blood toxic enough, that the creature will not kill and consume you, granted you get attacked.So they rally the surviving residents, and throw a party, with hopes that everyone will get so drunk, the monster won't have interest in them.But the monster crashes the party anyways...and, yea...the rest is pretty much exactly like Monsters (which, itself, is pretty much like Jurassic Park).All-in-all, I found this film to be pretty boring, as it is formulated around an overplayed concept- with the sea monster angle not being enough to capture my intrigue. The majority of the monster shots are CGI, but there are a few, less active moments, where the monster is an animatronic puppet. The acting is pretty bad- especially the drunk parts. They probably would have been better off just getting the whole cast proper drunk prior to shooting those scenes...because they were not done well. The action at the end is fun, but as was previously mentioned...it just wasn't original enough to win me over. Overall, this get's a meh from me.3.5 out of 10

GL84 Following the discovery of an alien species, a small island off the Irish coast finds themselves trapped with the creatures and using the realization that alcohol is poisonous to the creatures in order to combat them and find a way to get off the island alive.This here turned out to be quite the enjoyable and entertaining effort. A lot of this one's fun comes from the absurd concept at play, which is both strikingly original and a ton of fun overall. There's the main element at play here with this one centering on a quirky yet still fun-loving and goofy group out in the Irish coastline that makes for a truly easy time getting into this one with the rather funny jokes and goofy situations providing a great base upon the film for it to play it later during the invasion. The manner of which it's discovered about the probable manner of being able to beat the monsters off furthers this goofy and rather silly attitude quite well as there's a great deal of silly sight gags and goofy situations put into play here by utilizing this concept which really works well for the film. Still, like most good horror/comedies this one knows when to switch off the laughs and really bring out the suspense which is the case here since there's plenty of rather chilling and engaging confrontations with the creature starting with the opening attack on the boat in the middle of the storm as it takes out the crew one-by-one while remaining unseen due to the storm, the utterly chilling encounter at the farmhouse where it launches a series of attacks against the inhabitants and the rather fun search of the water-side caves where they discover the larger creature hiding out which are all quite fun and enjoyable scenes. As well, once the large creature arrives at the end and begins launching a series of fine attacks against the pub which makes for a series of intense and creepy encounters both with the full-size creature and the miniature ones wrecking havoc and forcing some rather fun means of defending them off which really sells this one quite well in delivering some solid and engaging action. That also extends into the final measure used to finish them off which is quite ingenious and rather exciting as well, making for a well-rounded finale. There's also the rather nice way in which this one manages to go about discovering the creatures and their abilities, which are quite logical and actually use some sound deductive reasoning rather than just jumping to conclusions in order to tell it's story. There's a lot of good work done here with how they operate and where they come from, making this one quite a nice discovery here. Along with a great-looking creature when it's on- screen and gets to let loose there's enough to like here that it does manage to hold up enough over the one lone flaw here. The film does seem to take a long time waiting to unleash the giant creature which really doesn't have a lot of screen-time anyway and it seems to somewhat falter in the pacing due to that, especially in the middle when it's all exposition about the creatures and the discovery of them. Still, it's the only thing here really holding this one back.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and continuous consumption of alcohol.

The Couchpotatoes Most of the time humor and horror don't really match well besides a couple of exceptions. And grabbers is one of those exceptions. Okay it might not be super scary but the monsters/aliens are well done and original. Mix with that the funny Irish drunken conversations, a couple of good actors, and a story that is funny and original and you get Grabbers. I had a good time watching it and certainly don't regret it. It's the perfect movie to relax with on a rainy day. Nothing difficult to watch, just plain easy entertainment. I would rather watch a funny horror movie like this one then some crap horror movies that we get all the time. Even though I have to admit this one is not scary at all, it's just funny.