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What happens when **deadly alien creatures invade a remote island… and the only way to survive is to get drunk? 🍺👽**

In this **Grabbers (2012) movie explained** video, we break down the complete story, from the terrifying creature attacks to the shocking discovery of their bizarre weakness. As the island's residents struggle to survive, they realize that alcohol may be their most powerful weapon against the monsters.

Watch until the end to discover **how the survivors fight back and what happens during the final confrontation!** 😱

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00:00Late at night, some fishermen are cleaning their boat when they suddenly see a bright
00:03light in the sky that ends up landing in the middle of the sea.
00:06They immediately head to that spot while trying to contact a Coast Guard.
00:09One of the men looks at the impact zone with a flashlight and screams in horror
00:13before he's dragged off the boat.
00:14Another fisherman runs to look for his missing friend, only to find blood on the railing.
00:18When he points his flashlight at the water, something brutally stabs him and throws him
00:22off the boat too. The last fisherman screams in grief for his father and doesn't hear the
00:26Coast Guard's answer on the radio. He grabs an axe and goes to investigate,
00:29but a noise in the darkness makes him step back in fear.
00:32The mysterious attacker then comes at him from above.
00:34The next morning on a small Irish island,
00:37Dr. Jiem walks his dog on the beach and is shot to find dozens of dead whales.
00:41Meanwhile Officer Kieran wakes up with a hangover after another night of heavy drinking.
00:44The first thing he does is grab a bottle from the trash can and drink the few drops at his
00:48left.
00:49After putting on his uniform, he goes to the harbor to pick up Lisa,
00:52who has been assigned to be his new partner.
00:54Kieran is a bit rude to her and doesn't talk during the whole trip.
00:56At the police station, Lisa meets the chief, who is leaving for his two-week vacation.
01:01Tieran is in a bad mood because he doesn't think he needs help to handle this boring little island
01:05that makes Lisa her coffee wrong on purpose.
01:07The chief ignores his complaints because he knows Kieran drinks too much so he should be watched.
01:11At the harbor, Fisherman Patty and Tide find something strange in one of their traps.
01:16When they try to take a closer look, the mysterious creature shoots water at Tide's face,
01:20which leads in smelling horrible.
01:21Patty then puts on some protection and takes the trap to his bathtub.
01:24Moments later Jim calls the officers to the beach to show them the dead whales
01:28and they meet marine ecologist Smith, who is already taking samples.
01:31Smith says that this happens to pilot whales from time to time, but nobody knows why.
01:35The deep cuts on the bodies are probably wounds from the rocks while they were being washed up on
01:39the beach.
01:40When Smith explains they all died in the sea at once,
01:43Kieran finds it too suspicious to be a coincidence.
01:45Afterward the officers head to a construction site.
01:48Kieran talks to boss Declan and manages to borrow some heavy equipment to remove the whales from the beach.
01:52In just a few hours all the bodies are being taken away on trucks and the team gets ready to
01:56leave.
01:57When a worker goes to pick up his shovel, he notices something strange buried in the sand.
02:01He starts digging to discover some peculiar spears that appear to be eggs.
02:05The man is about to leave with one of them but suddenly his legs are hit and he falls.
02:08He screams in desperation as he's dragged into the sea to never return.
02:12In the car, Declan gets tired of waiting and goes looking for his employee.
02:15He finds the shovel but no man in sight, so he yells the man's name a few times to no
02:20avail.
02:20In the evening, Kieran and Patty are getting horribly drunk at the pub.
02:24Bartender Yoon notices the way Kieran looks at Lisa and tells him to do something,
02:27but Kieran ignores her and keeps drinking.
02:30Patty shares that he's caught a sea monster, which he's keeping in his bathtub.
02:33Kieran doesn't believe him and tries to leave, so Patty insults him.
02:37Yoon's husband Brian bans Patty from the pub as punishment.
02:39In the meantime, Tig is comfortable at home watching TV when he hears someone pounding on the door.
02:44He opens it to find Declan looking very pale and strangely swaying with his arms up.
02:48Suddenly Declan falls and Tide tries to check on him, only to discover that Declan is dead.
02:52At that moment Tide is pulled up by something in the shadows and his wife Irene panics as she runs
02:57back into the house.
02:58She can hear Tide's painful screams and something moving on the roof.
03:01Irene quickly rushes from room to room to close them all and only calms down when everything is properly locked.
03:06Seeing dirt fall into the fireplace makes her realize she forgot about the chimney,
03:10so she reaches inside to try to close it too.
03:12However she's pulled up to her death as well.
03:14Meanwhile a very drunk Kieran disses Lisa, who is renting a room above the pub.
03:18He invites her to drink and moths her when she says they have work in the morning,
03:21pointing out that there are no bosses to check on them.
03:24When Lisa gets annoyed, Tyrion tries to step inside to talk things over and ends up bumping into a table.
03:29Lisa refuses to let him drive like this and volunteers to give him a ride.
03:32In the middle of the night, Patty checks the trap in his bathroom and finds it broken with an egg
03:36inside.
03:37After noticing a sticky substance on the mirror, he hears a noise and a shock to see a terrifying monster
03:42on the wall.
03:42The creature immediately attacks him with its tongue but surprisingly pulls away in disgust.
03:47Then it jumps on Patty's head to try to kill him, breaking the light bulb in the process.
03:51In the darkness, Patty fights with the monster until he manages to throw it down and starts kicking it on
03:55the floor.
03:56In the morning, Yuna talks to Lisa about Kieran and reveals he's widowed.
04:00She says there's no need for him to be on the island, it's more like a sabbatical.
04:03Yuna tries to offer Lisa a room that she could share with Kieran but Lisa turns her down.
04:07Afterward Lisa goes to the station and opens a cell to reveal that Kieran spent the night there.
04:12When he wakes up he thinks she arrested him, but Lisa explains that he passed out in the car before
04:16she could find his house.
04:17Then the officers get a call from Patty, who tells them what happened and brings them to Smith's lab.
04:22He's analyzing the body of the creature Patty caught, although he keeps getting distracted by flirting with Lisa.
04:27Smith admits he has no idea what the monster is, so Patty decides to call it Grabber.
04:31Using tongs, Smith pulls out the Grabber's tentacle-like tong and concludes it sucks its victim's blood like a leech.
04:36When Smith cleans the Grabber's tentacles, its skin glows as it absorbs the water from the sponge.
04:41It seems it can survive on only blood and water.
04:44Smith also explains that this Grabber is female and pulls the egg from the trap,
04:48which he's cut open to reveal the baby monster inside.
04:50Next the officers go to the beach to investigate and Kieran theorizes that the Grabber's killed the whales.
04:55They notice Declan's car has been abandoned on the sand with its keys but they can't find Declan anywhere.
05:00The closest building to the beach is Tide's house so they investigate it as well.
05:03The lights are still on and there's a piece of roof tile on the ground.
05:06While they look for a ladder, Lisa mentions how nice Smith is, which annoys Kieran.
05:11Lisa volunteers to get on the roof so Kieran holds the ladder and keeps drinking.
05:14There's a piece of fabric that smells like Patty's Grabber stuck on the chimney,
05:18so Lisa pulls until something falls and hits Kieran.
05:21To their shock, it's Tide's head.
05:23The duo takes the head to Jim, who concludes that Tide was mauled by a huge beast.
05:27They're interrupted by Patty, who drags them to his house to show them a huge hole in his wall and
05:31a broken tub in his yard.
05:32The group looks at a map to locate all the attached spots and tries to guess some kind of patter.
05:36They also realize that the dead female Grabber needs a male to make the eggs so there's another beast on
05:40the loose.
05:41The male Grabber probably broke the wall looking for his wife.
05:44Lisa remembers that Smith said the Grabbers need water and wonders how they're surviving on land.
05:48Patty reminds her it was raining so all the land is wet.
05:51Since there's a storm due tonight, they need to find the Grabbers before they attack again.
05:55Patty explains he caught the female near the Black Rock Caves, a place that would give the Grabber access to
06:00both water and the beach.
06:00When they reach the caves, Patty decides to wait outside.
06:04He finds more eggs in the sand and tries to take one, but he's startled by something moving inside the
06:08shell.
06:09In the cave, the officers look around and find the clothes of a dead fisherman.
06:13Tyrion yells a few times hoping a survivor will answer,
06:15but instead he gets the attention of the male Grabber who is much bigger and more terrifying than his wife.
06:20The duo immediately start running and Lisa gets stuck in a narrow passage, so Kieran touches her rear to push
06:25her through.
06:25They manage to reach the beach and think they're safe now because the Grabber can't go through the narrow passage,
06:30however it attacks with its very long tentacle tongue and takes Kieran's half.
06:33The officers then start running again, bringing Patty with them.
06:37Afterward they call the Coast Guard to inform them of an emergency,
06:40but the guard hangs up on them because they can't do anything until the swan is gone.
06:43The group then returns to the lab and Smith tells them that the whales were killed as a food source
06:47for the baby Grabbers.
06:49Expecting the male Grabber to come for his wife soon, Kieran and Lisa set the female Grabber on fire.
06:53This activates the sprinklers, which quickly put the flames out and make the creature wet.
06:58The trio rushes to turn them off before grabbing some things to defend themselves.
07:02When they're close enough, the Grabber awakens and shoots water at Kieran's face before jumping on them.
07:06Tyrion stumbles all over the lab as he tries to pull the creature off, destroying several objects in the process.
07:11He finds an oar and starts hitting the Grabber with it but the monster won't even budge.
07:15When Tyrion falls, Lisa and Smith grab the tentacles together and pull until they finally manage to get it off
07:20their friend's face.
07:21The Grabber throws up Kieran's blood before collapsing, so the group proceeds to beat it up without mercy.
07:26Somehow it still moves so they hit it again until it passes out.
07:29Then they remember that Paddy also fought the creature yet he's perfectly fine, while Kieran almost didn't survive.
07:35They realize that Paddy was so drunk that his blood alcohol level was toxic for the Grabbers.
07:39Since they can't leave the island or get help until the storm passes, their only solution for now is to
07:43avoid the rain and drink.
07:44At the pub, the group tells Brian the whole story.
07:47Since he doesn't believe them, they show him the female Grabber that they're keeping in a tank.
07:52Yuna is curious about what they're doing but they keep the creature hidden until she leaves.
07:55Afterward Lisa explains that she's not used to drinking and she worries that if everyone is drunk,
08:00nobody will be fit to lead and protect.
08:02Tyrion volunteers to stay sober because he knows this island best and gives Lisa his flask.
08:06Then the guys make Lisa drink until she gets drunk for the first time in her life, and they clap
08:10with pride.
08:11When Paddy pulls out an illegal homebrew, Lisa tries it too and finds it disgusting,
08:15but it's also what finally pushes her over the edge.
08:17She keeps giggling and can barely stand, so the guys help her reach a chair.
08:21Smith takes a hefty sample of Lisa's intoxicated blood and offers the glass to the female Grabber,
08:26who quickly drinks it all with its tentacle tongue.
08:28The creature immediately starts shaking and puking until it finally dies.
08:32Then Kieran measures Lisa's alcohol and the group realizes they'll really have to drink a lot to match her.
08:36In the evening, Kieran and Lisa go to the church to announce that the pub bar
08:40is having a huge party tonight.
08:41However the crowd is confused because a very drunk Lisa keeps saying nonsensical stuff and touching Kieran.
08:46He manages to get them excited by announcing a free bar, which leaves Brian very frustrated.
08:51Moments later all the locals are happily drinking and singing at the bar.
08:54Even the elderly are getting absolutely wasted.
08:57The heroes bring any useful object they can use as a weapon since they don't have any
09:00firearms and make a toast, planning not to let anyone out.
09:03In the kitchen, Smith tries Paddy's strong homebrew and ends up falling asleep.
09:07While it begins to rain, Kieran and Lisa keep an eye out in the car.
09:11Suddenly Lisa admits she likes Kieran, but he refuses to accept the confession from a drunk mind.
09:15She cries as she admits she never stops working because she's always running.
09:19After saying she feels like she's known Kieran for years, she offers her sympathies for his wife.
09:24However Kieran clarifies that his wife didn't die,
09:26they divorced because she met someone else and he started to drink afterward.
09:30Meanwhile Jim hasn't drunk much yet but he already feels bloated, so he goes outside to relieve himself.
09:34Suddenly he hears a noise and turns around to discover dozens of baby grabbers on the ground.
09:39Soon they surround him and one of them jumps on his face.
09:41Hearing the screening, Lisa and Kieran rush to help.
09:44Lisa hits the babies with a golf club, sometimes kicking them too.
09:48Kieran pulls the attacker's tail until he manages to separate it from Jim and throws it away.
09:52At that moment the huge mail grabber appears nearby and reaches out to capture Jim with a tentacle.
09:57It drags him close and stands above him before opening its mouth to descend in one smooth motion,
10:01devouring Jim whole. Then it burps to spit out Jim's head.
10:04Lisa and Kieran run back to the car in fear, but it won't start because the grabber is now on
10:09the roof.
10:09Soon it lands on the hood and gores at them,
10:11so Lisa desperately haunts the horn while saying she'll have to arrest the monster.
10:15Brian contact them on the radio to inform them he's out of booth so Kieran asks him to open the
10:19back door.
10:20When Lisa activates the police siren, the grabber is distracted long enough for the officers to run away.
10:25Brian brings them inside while the creature begins furiously destroying the vehicle.
10:28The group enters the pub through the kitchen door and awakens Smith, who can barely move.
10:33While the officers try to move the furniture to barricade the door,
10:36Brian grabs a water pistol filled with petrol and makes Smith light its wick on fire.
10:40Then Brian runs outside, ready to use the water gun as a flamethrower.
10:43However the rain puts the little flame out and the petrol doesn't reach too far.
10:47The grabber is coming for him, but Kieran catches Brian first and quickly brings him back inside.
10:52The group blots the door right before Yuna enters the kitchen.
10:54She hears weird noises outside and wonders what it is,
10:57but they keep lying to her and everyone returns to the bar.
11:00While Kieran struggles with the temptation to drink,
11:02Brian reminds his friends that he's out of alcohol and the rest of the cage are outside.
11:06Kieran stands on a chair and tries to tell the crowd to move the party upstairs,
11:09but nobody listens to him.
11:11At the same time Brian blames the invasion on Patty and they start fighting,
11:14so Kieran has to pull them apart.
11:16Then a very drunk Smith says they need more alcohol and goes outside with his camera,
11:20claiming he needs a picture for National Geographic.
11:23Smith tells him to come back but Patty encourages him to get the kicks.
11:26Soon the mail grabber tries to attack Smith,
11:28but it steps back every time he takes a picture with Flash.
11:31When Smith finally stops the creature comes closer,
11:34and only the smell of alcohol stops it from eating him.
11:36Smith starts bragging about his success so the grabber hits him with a tentacle and sends him
11:40flying into the sea.
11:41Then the monster roars and the crowd finally becomes aware of its presence,
11:44so they panic as they run upstairs.
11:46While the bar door is brought down and the baby grabbers make their way inside,
11:50the group reaches the first floor and Kieran barricades the door.
11:52He tells the crowd that the alcohol will keep them safe
11:55and asks them to stay away from the windows.
11:57A few hours later Brian takes a peek and discovers that the grabber is swinging a sheep
12:01at the door.
12:01Their alcohol levels are starting to go down so they need to think of a plan.
12:05Kieran says they need to keep the creature away from water,
12:08so Leisha proposes using the shame equipment they use to move the
12:10whales to trap the grabber in the air until the sun dries it out.
12:13Everyone agrees it's a good idea but nobody wants to go out.
12:16Lisa volunteers, pointing out she is the most drunk person here.
12:19They give her a nail gun to defend herself and she almost kills a guy,
12:23then she trips and rolls down when she tries to take the stairs.
12:26In the bar, the babies are destroying everything as they desperately search for food.
12:30They attack Lisa when she comes back,
12:32but she nails one to the counter with a gun and kicks the other one before entering the kitchen.
12:36She finds Patty's homebrew mix, Smith's lighter, and Brian's truck keys.
12:40Suddenly the grabber starts making its way inside and Lisa randomly shoots some nails,
12:44only to destroy the electrical box instead.
12:46The pub loses power while she runs with the lighter as her only source of light.
12:50A tentacle grabs her leg to bring her down, so the light falls and sets the bar on fire.
12:54When the grabber drags Lisa back into the kitchen,
12:57she grabs a knife and strikes the tentacle until it bleeds and muts go off her.
13:00Soon the people upstairs smell the smoke.
13:02Kieran rushes downstairs to look for Lisa but Brian stops him from walking into the fire and makes him climb
13:07out the window instead. Meanwhile the grabber appears at the opposite window and everyone panics as the
13:11whole building shakes. Kieran almost falls off but Lisa shows up in Brian's truck and Kieran safely
13:16lands on it. As the truck takes off, the grabber follows it. The vehicle's radio receives a message
13:21from the pub, thanking the officers for taking the risk because now they can evacuate. At the
13:25construction site, Lisa stops the truck by crashing it into some mud. While she goes looking for the
13:30equipment, Kieran walks on a flimsy platform and jumps over the hole just in time to dodge the
13:34grabber's attack. He plans to shoot some petrol barrels when the beast is close enough,
13:38but the grabber attaches him from afar with its tongue. Kieran falls into a hole and hurts his
13:42leg, but he still keeps his flare gun pointed at the barrels. When the grabber is about to reach him,
13:47Lisa appears in a construction vehicle and pushes the creature into the hole,
13:50leaving it trapped under the equipment. Then Kieran climbs out of the hole and Lisa wants to celebrate
13:55with a drink, but suddenly a tentacle grabs him. Before it drags him down, he takes the bottle from
14:00Lisa's hands. When Kieran pours the alcohol into the grabber's mouth, it gets so angry that it throws
14:04him back to the top. Lisa quickly takes the flare gun and shoots the barrels, causing a huge explosion
14:09that finally kills the monster. As the sun rises, Lisa gives Kieran his flask back, but he throws it
14:15away. Lisa wonders if she should go home to rest so Kieran tells her that this should be her home.
14:19While they share a sweet kiss, the eggs on the beach start to crack.
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