Maybe it was too difficult for a fictional treatment of the paranormal to compete with talk shows and documentary programs, which are overrun with spiritualists.
In some Caribbean countries, such as Barbados, which are overrun with the creatures, the snails' shells blow out car tyres and turn into projectiles when they encounter lawnmower blades.
We wouldn't be happy anyway in showplaces like Bourton-on-the-Water and Broadway, which are overrun even on winter weekdays.
Roy was driven to Sinjar, which was overrun by Isis in 2014 and retaken by Kurdish forces late last year.
Elsewhere, in a parallel Cannes, the delegates visit Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako's heart-piercing lament for his homeland of Mali, which is overrun by Islamic extremists.
His big sliced onion has become a Cape celebrity, perhaps the only onion celebrity on the Cape, or anywhere, except Hollywood, which is overrun with onion celebrities.
The child, named as Zaynab Daghastani, was reportedly killed on Tuesday outside her home in Yarmouk, which was overrun by Isis at the end of last month.
At Ballet Theater, which is overrun with guest stars, there is a new generation of dancers that could become the next decade's top artists, if they are cultivated for the long haul.
Residents of the city, which was overrun by the Taliban after a surprise offensive at the end of September, are warning that efforts to push the Islamists back from the surrounding area have failed.
Afterward, we had tea at his house, in Kensington, which was overrun by a vast collection of books, records, and scores — thousands upon thousands of them, stuffed onto shelves on every available wall.
My Greek publisher and his wife took us out dancing and drinking, and cooked for us one night in their little apartment, which was overrun with children, friends, moussaka, and cigarette smoke.
