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Overview

User Rating:
3.0/10   1,301 votes
Writer:
Leo Gordon (writer)
Release Date:
October 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Massive Blood Sucking Monsters! more
Plot:
After local-moonshine swilling trapper Lem Sawyer sees a giant creature, people start disappearing.... more | full synopsis
NewsDesk:
Attack Of The "Attack Of" Movies (From Studio Briefing. 9 August 2001)
User Comments:
Absolutely Perfect Grade-Z Drive-In Horror! more

Cast

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Ken Clark ... Steve Benton
Yvette Vickers ... Liz Walker
Jan Shepard ... Nan Greyson
Michael Emmet ... Cal Moulton
Tyler McVey ... Doc Greyson
Bruno VeSota ... Dave Walker
Gene Roth ... Sheriff Kovis

Dan White ... Slim Reed
George Cisar ... Lem Sawyer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Guy Buccola ... Giant leech (uncredited)
Joseph Hamilton ... Old Man (uncredited)
Ross Sturlin ... Giant leech (uncredited)
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Directed by
Bernard L. Kowalski 
 
Writing credits
Leo Gordon (writer)

Produced by
Gene Corman .... producer
Roger Corman .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Alexander Laszlo 
 
Cinematography by
John M. Nickolaus Jr. 
 
Film Editing by
Carlo Lodato 
 
Art Direction by
Daniel Haller 
 
Production Management
Jack Bohrer .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
John C. Chulay .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Richard M. Rubin .... props
 
Sound Department
Al Overton .... sound
 
Editorial Department
Anthony Magro .... associate editor (as Tony Magro)
 
Other crew
Kinta Zertuche .... production secretary
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Attack of the Blood Leeches
Demons of the Swamp (UK)
She Demons of the Swamp
The Giant Leeches (USA) (promotional title)
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Runtime:
62 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:X | USA:Unrated
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Mike wires the explosives to the detonator box and the plunger is all the way up as he walks over to Steve and the rest of the group. Steve then walks over to the detonator box to set off the charge but now the plunger is down, he has to pull up before he pushes it down to set off explosives. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Svengoolie: Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1996) more

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22 out of 24 people found the following comment useful:-
Absolutely Perfect Grade-Z Drive-In Horror!, 29 March 2000
Author: Son of Cathode from New England

One of the best of the late 50's Grade-Z drive-in mellers, this steamy and creepy tale of lust and betrayal in the Florida swamps works well as lurid melodrama and as slight sci-fi fable. The lovely Yvette Vickers (adulteress Honey in "Attack of the 50 Ft Woman") is at her bone-poppin' trashy best here as a Baby Dollish slut wife to fat slob storeowner Bruno VeSota. (She strolls into a room full of men wearing a frilly negligee, brushing her teeth, making sure all the pigs see the foamy toothpaste dribbling from her trembling mouth. Youch!) She has a lover named Cal, and when fatty husband finds the two embracing he forces them into the dark swamp, where men in shiny leech costumes drag them to their underground cave to suck them bone dry. There's a beautifully orchestrated scene at midpoint in the film, in the leeches' cave, where half-comatose victims wail and moan in contorted postures as they helplessly watch their leechish tormentors slowly crawl towards them, slurping and sucking all the way. It's a scene of pure horror not unlike a similar scene in "Beast from Haunted Cave" a year later. The scientific explanation for the beasts (atomic fallout from nearby Cape Canaveral rockets) is superfluous to the plot, which is, of course, about the giantest leeches of them all, us. And as the end implies, as we hear the slurping of a new batch of bloodsuckers from the deep, there is no end to the giant leeches! The exact same length as Roger Corman's biblical sci-fi masterpiece "Attack of the Crab Monsters," this film was produced by Roger's brother Gene, shown in a nifty title splice against his executive producer brother. Other great AIP drive-in quickies of the era were "The Brain Eaters" and "Terror from the Year 5000." Cool electro-score by Alexander Laszlo, whose "The Atomic Submarine" and "Night of the Blood Beast" scores are also classics of the genre.

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