retromaster2000 Review of Attack of the Crab Monsters

Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

Roger Corman's Nifty Little 50's Sci-Fi Gem.

[6/10 · 19 February 2010]

Saw this movie back in 2001 I got the VHS for a Christmas Present. Honestly on the first viewing I wasn't satisfied. But over the years I have grown to like it. It's about an island off the coast of the pacific that has had radiation effects. Mutating ordinary Crabs into giant brain-eating monsters. Some familiar faces too including Richard Johnson who would later go on to play The Professor on T.V.'s Gilligan's Island. Also Pamela Duncan & Mel Wells who played in other 50's Corman Films like The Undead from 1957. Basically The film takes place on this island. The first research term goes to the island & doesn't come back. So a second team is dispatched to find out what happened. Not much else to say the special effects are disappointing but it's a low-budget Allied Artists Film so that's what you get. I guess they aren't that bad considering the low-budget. Paul Blaisdell was to have done the effects but wasn't given enough money & time so he vowed working on The Giant Crab Effects. Pamela Duncan don't have many of her films the other being The Undead from 1957 another Corman Effort will have to look more into her work. She was very pretty I have some of her digital pin-up images as well some 50's magazines that have pin-up photos of her inside. This is to get it's proper due on DVD July 20, 2010 by Shout! Factory Allied Artsists previous DVD wasn't that great so the update will do this some good. I give this film a 6.