Attack of the Giant Leeches

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A depraved bloodsucking sinister force is terrorizing the backwoods. When flirtatious sexpot Liz Walker (Yvette Vickers) is thrown into the swamp by her jealous husband (Bruno Ve Sota), she's taken hostage by giant leeches and held captive in their underwater cavern of horror. Other townsfolk are soon abducted by the leeches, joining Liz in the monster's subterranean lair. The locals desperately battle the mammoth leeches in an explosive climax! (Verleiher-Text)

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Goldbeater 

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Deutsch Ein weiterer in der Reihe von billigen B-Horrorfilmen aus den 50er-Jahren in der Produktion der Corman-Brüder, diesmal mit Menschen, die in Beuteln mit riesigen Saugnäpfen stecken, die scheinbar überwucherte Blutegel darstellen sollen. Es ist langweilig geschrieben (Leo Gordon ist ein solider Schauspieler, aber ein miserabler Drehbuchautor) und tragisch gespielt - wenn ich den Eindruck habe, dass Bruno VeSota die beste schauspielerische Leistung erbringt, ist das schon etwas. Die letzte Szene wirkt außerdem so, als hätten die Schauspieler keine Anweisungen vom Regisseur erhalten, und sie starren stumpf auf die triumphierenden Blutegel und gehen dann jeder seiner Wege. Schlecht, wirklich schlecht. ()

Lima 

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Englisch Poster tagline: CRAWLING HORROR!!! RISING FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL TO KILL AND CONQUER!!! An utterly unlikeable film. What I love about the sci-fi movies of the Golden Age, even if some of them are silly, is the charming naivety with which they were made, including the cute sets, the costumes, the make-up, etc. But in this case, Corman's calculating approach offers no such thing – "We've got one camera, two cheap costumes and a swamp, let's put something together in a few days!" Cheapness oozes from every frame of the film (as one contemporary review wittily noted - ".... the budget wouldn't cover the catering costs of another normal film..."), the lighting is non-existent, so most of the scenes set at night are drowned in darkness, the exteriors of the Pasadena Arboretum are drab, ugly, repulsive, and visually uninteresting, and the giant leeches are only occasionally and briefly (one might want to say "fortunately") glimpsed. I give one star for the few shots from the cave with the prisoners, which at least remotely resemble a horror atmosphere, otherwise avoid this miserable hour. ()

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JFL 

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Englisch As a monster movie, Attack of the Giant Leaches is utterly hopeless and as completely useless as anything else. The titular giant leeches appear on the screen for a total of five minutes and the rest of the film consists of insipid soap-operatic quarrels among Southern hillbillies and scenes of swamps accompanied by dialogue about something fishy happening in those swamps. ()

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