There’s a lot of things of value to be mined from our earth, but murderous, multiply-tentacled beings are probably best left undisturbed.

The hapless workers digging for buried treasure in Hell Hole, the latest feature from The Adams Family (Hellbender, Where the Devil Roams), find the motherlode of creepy, crawly, killing things.

The official description for Hell Hole says it’s about “an American-led fracking crew working deep in the Serbian wilderness [that] finds themselves at odds with government assigned environmental advisors. When they get approval to drill, the workers uncover the unimaginable: a dormant parasitic monster entombed deep in the frozen rock. Now awakened, it tears through the mining facility in search of the perfect host.”

John Adams, Toby Poser, and Lulu Adams wrote the script and John Adams and Toby Poser direct.

The film stars Toby Poser, John Adams, Max Portham (Where the Devil Roams), Olivera Peruničić (Subspecies V: Blood Rise), Anders Hove (Subspecies I-V, The Boss of it All) Aleksandar Trmčić, Petar Arsić (Subspecies V: Blood Rise), Bruno Veljanovski (Eight Eyes), Marko Vučković (Subspecies V: Blood Rise), Joana Knežević and Ivan Đorđević.

With Hell Hole, we aimed to make a monster movie with old school horror, sci-fi allegiance, and contemporary considerations. We wanted to create a story that is, on one hand, a bit absurd, definitely mutinous, and hopefully transgressively comical. In typical family fashion, our narrative intends to subvert the genre, in this case with textures of biological and environmental horror in tandem with questions of gender and bodily autonomy. We had a slimy good time, and we hope audiences will, too,” John Adams and Toby Poser said in a statement.

The film premiered Tuesday at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Shudder will exclusively debut Hell Hole on August 23rd.