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| Directed by | Bernard L. Kowalski |
| Written by | Leo Gordon |
| Screenplay by | Leo Gordon |
| Story by | Leo Gordon |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | John M. Nickolaus Jr. |
| Edited by | Carlo Lodato |
| Music by | Alexander Laszlo |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 62 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70,000 (estimated)[1] |
Attack of the Giant Leeches is a low-budget 1959 science fiction film from American International Pictures. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and produced by Gene Corman. The screenplay was written by Leo Gordon. The film is in black and white, and runs for 62 minutes. It was one of a spate of monster movies produced during the 1950s in response to cold war fears; in the film, a character speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.
The film has also been released as Attack of the Blood Leeches, Demons of the Swamp, She Demons of the Swamp, and The Giant Leeches.[2]
In July 1992, Attack of the Giant Leeches was featured as a fourth-season episode of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Attack of the Giant Leeches was also featured on the nationally-syndicated horror host television show Cinema Insomnia.[3] It was also featured in episode two of season five of "Shilling Shockers", a New England based television show hosted by the witch Penny Dreadful XIII.[4]
A remake of the film was released by Brain Damage Films in 2009.
Plot
In the Florida Everglades, a pair of larger-than-human, intelligent leeches are living in an underwater cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them prisoner and slowly drain them of blood.
One of the first people to be so taken is the local vixen, Liz Walker, played by Yvette Vickers. After a couple of gratuitous displays of flesh (Vickers appeared as the centerfold in the July 1959 issue of Playboy), and some running around on her husband (Bruno VeSota), Liz finds herself a prisoner of the leeches along with her current paramour. Game warden Steve Benton (Ken Clark) sets out to investigate their disappearance. Aided by his girlfriend Nan Grayson (Jan Sheppard) and her father, Doc Grayson, he discovers the cavern.
The monsters are finally destroyed when Steve, Doc, and some state troopers blow up the cavern with dynamite.
Cast
- Ken Clark
- Yvette Vickers
- Jan Shepard
- Michael Emmet
- Tyler McVey
- Bruno VeSota
- Gene Roth
- Dan White
- George Cisar
Production
The film was shot in eight days. During filming Gene Corman came down with pneumonia and wound up in the hospital.[1]
Home Video releases
- Attack of the Giant Leeches has received numerous "bargain bin" releases.
- The MST3K version of the film was released by Rhino Home Video as part of the "Collection, Volume 6" box set.
See also
References
- ^ a b Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p148
- ^ "Release dates for Attack of the Giant Leeches". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
- ^ "Cinema Insomnia, with your Horror Host, Mister Lobo! - SHOW INFORMATION". Retrieved 21 November 2010.
- ^ "author=". Archived from the original on 2 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
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External links
- Attack of the Giant Leeches at IMDb
- Attack of the Giant Leeches is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- Attack of the Giant Leeches at AllMovie
- Template:Google video
- Attack of the Giant Leeches at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films