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Memorable, crazy movie

Absolutely Fantastic

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Released in 1959, "Attack of the Giant Leeches" takes place in a small swamp community in Florida where giant leeches threaten the populace. Ken Clark stars as the ranger who investigates the strange happenings.I didn't have much hope for this flick considering it's dubious name, its short length (62 minutes) and the fact that it's B&W, but the characters are decent and the story engrossing enough. The late 50's ambiance is worth the price of admission and the swamp atmospherics effective. Clark makes for a great masculine protagonist with his athletic build and meek disposition (sorta like a smaller Clint Walker). Jan Shepard plays his wife, the good girl, contrasted by Yvette Vickers' bad girl. Vickers was the July '59 Playmate of the Month and the movie shows off her body a little bit. While the leech monsters are rather lame, the sequences in the underwater cave where the leeches suck the blood of their captives are pretty nightmarish with the accompanying spooky music.Despite these positives, critics lambaste the movie on the grounds that the leeches are laughable, essentially people covered in trash bags with suckers here & there where you can clearly see the actors' arms moving inside the bags. If you can overlook this shortcoming, this is worthwhile 50's swamp horror.The film was shot in Los Angeles. GRADE: B

I have to say this film surprised me, it's better than I expected it to be. Believe it or not, this film actually has somewhat of a story which is saying a lot for a film of this type! What was interesting to me was the character interactions and relationships within the film - that is something I did not expect with this movie.The giant leech costumes are a little disappointing but really not all that bad for a 1959 b-rated flick - it is what you might expect. Not all of the giant leech scenes are disappointing in fact some scenes are quite good in costuming & effects.The film is b-rated but it's not a very cheap looking low budget flick like one would expect - like I expected. The "eerie swamp" horror films are quite fun and this one is definitely in that category.This movie would make a good double feature with a film like Strangler of the Swamp (1946) or even Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).6.5/10

Shot over eight days on a super-low budget - with brothers Gene and Roger Corman as producer and executive producer respectively - Attack Of The Giant Leeches is a typical 50s sci-fi cheapie. The 50s was awash with films like this, brief and often absurd time-fillers made to capitalise on Cold War fears. Here, rocket activity in the Cape Canaveral area is blamed for mutated leeches which grow to human size and drag unsuspecting local yokels into the swamp. Well, it's a plot… of sorts.Local poacher Lem Sawyer (George Cisar) stumbles across a large creature quite unlike anything he has ever seen whilst wandering through swampland in the Florida Everglades. He shoots the creature several times. Later, adulterous woman Liz Walker (Yvette Vickers) and her secret lover Cal (Michael Emmett) are having one of their romantic trysts out in the swamp when Liz's husband Dave (Bruno VeSota) shows up. Dave chases the pair of them with a gun, planning to shake them up good, but to his horror he instead witnesses them being dragged into the swamp by one of the gigantic creatures shot at by Lem at the start of the film. No-one believes Dave when he tries to tell them what happened – everyone assumes he killed them in a fit of rage, and has concocted the story about the creatures to get himself off the hook. Later, some more locals searching for the missing bodies also go missing, and game warden Steve Benton (Ken Clark) heads into the swamp in search of answers. He discovers a pair of human-sized, blood-sucking leeches hiding in an underwater cave, feeding off the blood of the human victims they have dragged away from the water's edge.Cheap, stupid and generally laughable, Attack Of The Giant Leeches is a pretty weak offering in all departments. Much of it is shot in such glum colour that the action is difficult to see. The acting is wooden at best, and the dialogue often borders on the downright ridiculous. It's a surprise to learn the script is by TV and film character actor Leo Gordon, who appeared in countless westerns in the 50s, 0s and 70s. Alexander Laszlo's score is a weird jingling and jangling of instruments which sounds almost as if it's being improvised on the spot. If nothing else the film is extremely short, its running time coming in around the hour mark. It may be nonsense but at least it's brief nonsense. No-one in their right mind would seriously recommend Attack Of The Giant Leeches, but if you're an addict of these low budget 50s sci-fi B-movies you may find some charm in it.

This is one of those so-bad-it's-good '50s monster flicks that is as much fun as its title, and stacks up as a quick and easy 60 minutes of monster madness. Residents of a small hick town are plagued by rubbery blood-sucking creatures living in a nearby swamp that kidnap human victims and keep them barely alive in an underwater cave so they can keep sucking them dry. For a movie of this era, it's pretty gruesome in the way the leeches suck their victims' flesh and how this leaves them as stone-faced corpses floating back up to the surface. It's always a treat to see sexy Yvette Vickers (ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN) as the town tramp, who two-times her "tub of lard husband" (Bruno Ve Sota). With Gene Roth as the doubting sheriff. **1/2 out of ****