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Writer:
Charles B. Griffith (screenplay)
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Release Date:
10 February 1957 (USA) more
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Tagline:
From the depths of the sea... a tidal wave of terror!
Plot:
People are trapped on a shrinking island by intelligent, brain-eating giant crabs. Roger Corman directs. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Richard Garland ... Dale Drewer
Pamela Duncan ... Dr. Martha 'Marti' Hunter
Russell Johnson ... Hank Chapman
Leslie Bradley ... Dr. Karl Weigand
Mel Welles ... Jules Deveroux
Richard H. Cutting ... Dr. James Carson
Beach Dickerson ... Seaman Ron Fellows
Tony Miller ... Seaman Jack Sommers
Ed Nelson ... Ensign Quinlan
Maitland Stuart ... Seaman Mac
Charles B. Griffith ... Seaman Tate
Robin Riley
Doug Robberts
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62 min
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Russell Johnson broke his toe while splashing around in the water during one scene. Due to the low budget of the film, director Roger Corman had a stage tech tape up Johnson's toe and immediately ordered him back in the water to finish the scene. more
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Revealing mistakes: As Martha, swimming in the sea, approaches a giant clam on the sea bottom a square reflection can be seen on the glass of the tank she is actually swimming in. more
Quotes:
Martha Hunter: But Doctor, that theory doesn't explain why Jules' and Carson's minds have turned against us.
Dale Drewer: Preservation of the species. Once they were men. Now they are land crabs.
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Referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994) more

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9 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
One of a Kind Horror Treat, 16 November 1998
10/10
Author: Chris J. from Seattle, WA

It bizarre, preposterous, silly, campy, creepy, a bit gory, a little scary and a whole lot of fun.

Where does one begin with a film such as this. Campy, creepy, bizarre, for it's time quite shocking (a decapitation) and a favorite of 10 year to 14 year old boys watching Chiller Theatre showings of this Corman classic in the mid 60's.

Originally released with another classic Corman, Not of this Earth in 1957, this is one of the strangest horror films ever made.

Scientists are held captive on an Island by a gang of atomic mutated giant paper-mache crabs. They eat several brainy scientist types, luring them into their cave lairs via psychic communication, gotten I suppose through the assimilation of the scientists brains. Got that? Good.

It wasn't quite formula stuff then, but it is now. You know the group is isolated and picked off one by one... here it's an island, in slasher movies it's summer camps or sorority houses, or space ships (Alien) etc. etc.

But this is back in '57 and the formula was almost fresh then.

Enjoy it.

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