Attack of the Giant Leeches

Otra película de terror de serie B de los años 50 producida por los hermanos Corman, esta vez con personas en bolsas con ventosas gigantes que pretenden parecerse a sanguijuelas de gran tamaño. El guion es poco interesante (Leo Gordon es un buen actor pero un pésimo guionista) y los intérpretes son algo trágico. Baste decir que Bruno VeSota me parece el mejor actor. En la escena final parece que los actores no han recibido ninguna instrucción del director, por lo que en el momento del triunfo sobre las sanguijuelas se limitan a mirar estúpidamente y luego se dispersan. Mala, de verdad que mala. (09.11.2018)

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. (26.06.2016)

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. (15.04.2015)