Well, excuse me for shooting my mouth off, but the journal didn't say anything about the sea - just talked about worms.
They've been know to grow much longer than five feet. It's just that McLane didn't really mean to imply that the flesh was from a big worm. Why don't we work out tomorrow's schedule and then get some sleep?īut what about that five-foot nightcrawler? Well, excuse me for being so stupid. Fire was applied to the tissue and the corollary result." The journal ends there. Most intriguing is the tissue's consistency: it proved impossible to cut - knives passing through the flesh leaving no mark. With this section as a measure, the worm-like creature would be more than five feet in length. If you're looking for a good hour long example of what the lower tier of these films was like (below movies like "Them!") then this would be a good place to start."Friday, March 12: This afternoon Professor Carter found a large piece of flesh having the same composition as that of the common earthworm, but measured twenty-four inches by eight.
These midnight drive in flicks are fun to watch anyway, but Corman did an excellent job of adding elements that were missing from other by-the-numbers films. You can just about guess how much money went into most of the elements of this film (ie zero), with the most expensive elements being the crabs themselves, which are hilariously bad puppets with cartoon eyes. There's also some gore, like heads and hands being cut off. While the film is basically a mutated creature feature, it also incorporates some creepy ghost element material that you wouldn't normally think of. This movie actually had some surprising elements too it that I found interesting in the context. You gotta love some good psychotronic drive- in schlock from the master himself, Roger Corman. Smarter than you'd be right in expecting a movie called Attack of the Crab Monsters to be, and this is in part because. Other 50's sci-fi movies contain just terror, while this movie combines both terror and eeriness. Additionally, the setting for "Attack of the Crab Monsters" is a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean Sound familiar? "Attack of the Crab Monsters" is very different from most sci-fi movies from the 50's. The character that Russell Johnson plays in this movie is basically the same as the professor in "Gilligan's Island". If you are a fan of "Gilligan's Island", then I would highly recommend watching this movie to see Russell Johnson in his early acting career. The most notable actor in this movie is Russell Johnson, who also played the professor in the tv show "Gilligan's Island". This is the best 1950's sci-fi movie that I have seen. The quick pace, paired with some unintentional laughs, keeps it from being completely unenjoyable to watch. It does benefit from being short, though, and because of this it wastes no time getting to some crab action. The "science" used to explain the monsters is silly and farfetched even for a 50s sci-fi movie and the characters act so stupidly, it's sometimes difficult to follow what's going on. The crabs moved very slowly and stiffly and it was impossible not to laugh when they started talking, taunting their intended prey as they advanced, making an unpleasant crunching noise. Good for a laugh, but that's about it.Ĭrabs able to lure people to their death using the voices of their digested victims is an intriguing idea but Roger Corman could not pull it off. I'm guessing this was written by a pre-PETA animal lover who just got tired of watching those nasty humans eating all those innicent crabs. The crabs are hilarious with their human eyes and limited flexibility, the acting weak at best, and the drama supplied by frightened, screaming women and consumed humans. Attack of the Crab Monsters is a 1957 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced and directed by Roger Corman (via his Los Altos Productions), that stars Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, and Russell Johnson.The film was distributed by Allied Artists as a double feature showing with Cormans Not of This Earth. As per usual in these 50s-60s sci-fi alien / monster films, the scientists and military have to figure out a way to defeat the monsters / aliens. And they're pissed, probably a byproduct of the humans they've eaten who didn't go willingly. Giant crabs created by, what else? radiation.
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