Another b&w sci fi horror B-movie, This time its giant killer leeches in a Florida nature reserve swamp. This time around, the mutation is caused by radiation from the Cape Canaveral rocket-launching site.
To keep track, so far we've had giant crabs 🦀, giant grasshoppers, a giant Gila monster 🦎, a giant bat 🦇, a giant amoeba, and now giant leeches.
The lead actors portrays a young peace officer who is responsible for the nature reserve's preservation, and his sweetheart. When bodies show up drained of blood, and with suction marks on their necks, our hero and his girlfriend feel that something is out of the ordinary. Naturally, the sheriff and other townsfolk are skeptical. The narrative includes a neat subplot revolving around the flirting wife of the local grocer.
This is an above par horror for period B-movies. What first caught my attention was the convincing performance of all the actors. When that happens, it usually reflects good directing.
The sets, including the swamp, are great for a B-movie; as well as the costumes and props.
A couple of cringe scenes are where the leeches store their live human victims in an underwater cave, where they periodically return to visit them to suck out more blood.
The giant leech costume was quite good. It was made of raincoat-type material. The man-sized creatures has several appendages including two that seemed to act like arms. The appendages were lined with octopi-type suckers. The thickest appendage had a large round mouth, or sucker, near its end, with concentric circles of sharp teeth.
The movie was filmed in 8 days on a $70,000 budget.
This movie is currently rated 3.7 on IMDb. I give it a solid 6. It is on YouTube.
To keep track, so far we've had giant crabs 🦀, giant grasshoppers, a giant Gila monster 🦎, a giant bat 🦇, a giant amoeba, and now giant leeches.
The lead actors portrays a young peace officer who is responsible for the nature reserve's preservation, and his sweetheart. When bodies show up drained of blood, and with suction marks on their necks, our hero and his girlfriend feel that something is out of the ordinary. Naturally, the sheriff and other townsfolk are skeptical. The narrative includes a neat subplot revolving around the flirting wife of the local grocer.
This is an above par horror for period B-movies. What first caught my attention was the convincing performance of all the actors. When that happens, it usually reflects good directing.
The sets, including the swamp, are great for a B-movie; as well as the costumes and props.
A couple of cringe scenes are where the leeches store their live human victims in an underwater cave, where they periodically return to visit them to suck out more blood.
The giant leech costume was quite good. It was made of raincoat-type material. The man-sized creatures has several appendages including two that seemed to act like arms. The appendages were lined with octopi-type suckers. The thickest appendage had a large round mouth, or sucker, near its end, with concentric circles of sharp teeth.
The movie was filmed in 8 days on a $70,000 budget.
This movie is currently rated 3.7 on IMDb. I give it a solid 6. It is on YouTube.