The Locusts is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by John Patrick Kelley and starring Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Davies, Kate Capshaw, Paul Rudd, and Ashley Judd.

In 1955, drifter Clay Hewitt (Vince Vaughn) wanders into a small Kansas town seeking employment to finance a visit to his older brother in California.

Clay befriends Delilah's sensitive and introverted son, Joseph "Flyboy" Potts (Jeremy Davies), who has just returned from a psychiatric institution and whose only companion is his late father's aging pet bull.

Flyboy was institutionalized for eight years after finding his father's corpse as a child, and is constantly emasculated by Delilah by being forced to cook and clean for the farmhands, who frequently mistreat him.

Her husband, an old friend of her father, agreed to marry her and raise Flyboy as his own child to spare her the shame, but Delilah could never bring herself to love either of them, and instead sought to destroy them.