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DVD Attack of the Giant Leeches
It's hard to say whether this is a low-rent Southern Gothic melodrama or a monster movie; it seems that director Bernard Kowalski couldn't make up his mind which genre to pursue. A local poacher turns up in the swamp half-dead with sucker marks all over his body. Soon after, a fat slob bartender (Corman regular Bruno VeSota) finds his hottie of a wife making out with her boyfriend and forces them into the swamp at gunpoint. From there, the two become a leech snack. When more people disappear in the bayou, the local game warden and resident scientist (isn't there always one, regardless of how remote the place is?) take it seriously and discover the monstrous bloodsuckers. Despite the grade-Z trappings of this movie, threadbare plot, and ludicrous monsters, there are still some chilling and effective moments, such as the scene where doomed victims of the leeches are left to watch in horror as their attackers approach in their lair. The mutated leeches are a result of radiation (but of course). At a scant 62-minute running time, this is some prime drive-in trash, and it's over with before you even have a chance to get sick of it. --Jerry Renshaw
Fans of fifties creature features should enjoy this smarmy swamp saga about vampirish predators that keep captives in caves to suffer lingering, sucked-dry deaths. The monsters are fearsomely fun, the hero hairy-chested and handsome, the leading lady clingy and lovely, and the leading non-lady cleavaged and vampily luscious. The scripting is tolerably sensible, and the acting and direction are above average for this sort of cinema. In its day, this movie's gruesome mutants and waterborne dead bodies would have seemed more grisly than gleeful. But today, both adjectives can be applied in abundance!
Faux-Corman masterpiece.
Yvette Vickers and her tube of lotion make this a must-have.
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This is a silly but fun romp where people close to a military establishment that dumps nuke waste arte taken away to ... ?
This is not a masterpiece like THEM or TARANTULA but it is a lot fun to watch.
Yvette Vickers is, to put it simply, gorgeous ! Tho it is uneven, there is a spooky mood over the movie. I have never been to Florida but there is something very creepy about the swamps and within the budget < which would get you a coffee and do nut today>, works well.
I can speculate and say it would be a minor classic had the leeches never been shown, but it was made fo r the drive in crowsd and the luckier ones were not interested in the movie by that point. :-)
Anyway, this i s a campy, fun film for the whole family and Yvette is certainly candy for the eye!
For B fans mostly but it does have some haunting moments. I am curious why swampland has not been used more often as a setting for chiiling movies. Shhhhhhh, don't tell! I just got an idea!
this cult classic, that's what!!! I remember having nightmares after watching this cheesefest as a kid, and the weird thing was I dreamed it in black-and-white.
Despite the obvious fact they used dogs covered with something resembling oversized dust mops and godawful phoney fangs that would make any respectable sabertooth cat bust a gut laughing, this hokey B-movie is actually quite good. Alright, forget the hammy acting too, because this ain't Oscar material gentle readers, it's pure entertainment!
If you don't take this film too seriously or try to analyze it, you'll probably find yourself being absorbed by this tale of survival. The premise is simple: escape from an island overun with giant, hungry dogs...er-ah shrews without winding up on the food chain. Of... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): James Best - Ingrid Goude Director(s): Ray Kellogg DVD Release Date: Released the 27 August 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The tranquility of a small Texas town is ruined when an enormous rear-projection lizard begins to terrorize the place! At first, the adults dismiss the kids' hysterics as nonsense. The sheriff is helpless and the adults fail miserably to defeat the thing, so it's up to the teenagers to take it on. Though this movie relies a little too heavily on plot and characters and not enough on giant lizards, it's still a fun slice of '50s camp. The lead character (played by Don Sullivan) sings some wildly inappropriate and goofy songs for some unintended comic relief. Rock & roll, hot rods, teenagers, huge monsters... all the elements are in place for this faintly ridiculous '50s funfest. --Jerry RenshawMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Ray Kellogg DVD Release Date: Released the 19 November 2002 Usually ships within 5 to 7 days
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"The Crawling Eye" is one of those movies that people like to lump in with campy fifties monster movies like "The Brain that wouldn't Die" or "The Giant Gila Monster". It's actually several cuts above those films due to the intelligent script and the beautiful cinematography--the Swiss Alps never looked better even if it was all shot on a set. Forrest Tucker makes a capable leading man as he does in "The Abominable Snowman". The sinister cloud was apparently done by filming a piece of cotton attached to a photograph of a mountain, but it is amazingly effective. Less successful are the "crawling eyes" themselves at the end of the film--they look like white, veiny cabbages waving their leaves around. Particularly unimpressive is the climactic shot of them gathered around the obviously... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Quentin Lawrence DVD Release Date: Released the 04 December 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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man i love old and crappy 50's sci fi films like these.bad acting, crappy special effects.A great film to watch with friens on a friday or a saturday night. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Edward L. Cahn DVD Release Date: Released the 15 April 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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A highlight among 1950s creature-features, The Monster That Challenged the World is a near-classic B movie that never goes out of style. When an earthquake reveals a nest of giant, prehistoric sea mollusks at the bottom of California's Salton Sea, the local body count skyrockets. Navy lietenant Twillinger (Tim Holt) takes command, assisting the obligatory scientist (Hans Conreid) while wooing the June Cleaver wanna-be (Barbara Darrow) who inevitably tangles with the monster--a flailing caterpillar-like beastie with snapping mandibles and a voracious appetite. With a moment of vintage gross-out ("Get the eye! Get the eye!"), well-handled suspense, and the requisite balance of tepid romance and sci-fi jargon, this is a prime companion to any film in the atomic-monster lineup. The... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Arnold Laven DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 This item is currently not available.
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