Attack of the Giant Leeches

One of Roger Corman's earlier efforts, and not one of his better ones. Director Bernard Kowalski has done better work, too ("Ssss...."). The main reason (the ONLY reason, actually) to watch this, though, is Yvette Vickers. Probably best known for playing Honey, the town tramp in the original "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman," Vickers absolutely oozes sex out of every pore without really trying. What Sue Lyon couldn't do in "Lolita," and what Carroll Baker couldn't do in "Baby Doll," Yvette Vickers does in "Attack of the Giant Leeches": show a young woman with a sexual draw so overpowering that you understand why an old man would kill to keep her and a young man would kill to have her. Check out "Reform School Girls" and "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" to see her to even better advantage.