Squirrels is a forthcoming 2014 US horror film based on an idea by Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter), who also produces. It is being written by Daniel Antoniazzi and Ben Shiffrin. The Squirrels teaser trailer has already received lots of interest on the web, much as Sharknado did before its TV debut.
When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds his mom’s sleazy new boyfriend, a natural gas company buying up the town, an angry female sheriff who happens to be his ex-girlfriend, and an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their path due to an erosion of their food chain as a result of environmental destruction by the gas company…
