Why do you give an extremely detailed description of this movie...from beginning to end? You told every pertinent bit of the plot! If, I had read this , I would never have watched!
I was so in the mood for a 1950's B science fiction movie with bad special effects (the rubber costumes for the leeches) and a theremin. Thank you, this movie checked all the boxes. Liked and Subscribed.
It's 2022, and we still love these loveable relics from the 1950's that they just don"t make any more. Hell, they don't make classical sculpture in the Roman Empire either! It's funny to think that movies like this are America's unique contribution to the history of the world.
I would have never known this was a low budget sci-fi film. When filming the opening night shot they had someone shine a flashlight on the guy in the boat.
This was a fun movie. Some super corny acting, and the story kinda ran empty sometimes, but some great funny lines and cool designs when it came to the leeches. Thanks for sharing! :)
Why are so many of these older sci-fi/monster movies posted in only 480P? The print itself is in bad enough shape as it is. This deserves at least 720P quality picture.
It's the 21st century now, but these old black and white monster movies still rock the house. This 1959 version from Roger Corman is actually better than the 2015 remake from the Kings of Horror -- and their version is not bad.
I remember this and monsters of THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH. I remembered these creatures making the same noise, but they don't. God, these with HR puffnstuff and Dot, I was in high heaven
All collectors/connoisseurs of The Welte-Mignon might here take note of the fact that, none other than Alexander 'Szandor' Laszlo himself composed the creepy music for this classic. A positive foreshadowing of this may be perceived in his self-composed record-rolls that he'd recorded in Germany in the early days, when just beginning his career - these being 'of the strange' already. Thus far, and most mysteriously NO photographs have yet been found to exist of his actual living visage!!! . : .
@@sciencenatein the novel patrick was absolutely terrified of leeches. (SPOILER ALERT) it was described that patrick had gone swimming in a lake with his parents as a little kid; when he got out, he was covered in leeches and began to scream and panic, assuming they’d drain him of his blood and his ‘essence’. his dad would pull off the bloody leeches and traumatise him up until his death in the novel when pennywise manifested the flying leeches to fly out of his junkyard refrigerator, attack him and drain him of most of his blood and drag him down into the sewers.
Florida Man, in important ways we still are kids inside. For more information and details try and see the "Kick The Can" episode of The Twilight Zone, probably available right here on TH-cam. (Don't get left behind!) . : .
leeches are saving alot of lifes helping in surgeries reducing blood pressure Leech therapy's during and after these surgeries helps the body to heal more naturally and completely. Leech therapy's benefits for blood circulation has also led some people use leech therapy to treat baldness and hair loss on the scalp. Because leeches produce and literally suck blood from the surface of skin, they are often used to revive delicate veins and improve blood flow following a tissue reattachment procedure Leeches especially Hirudo medicinalis and without this work, cells will be dead thus failure of tissue reconnecting. stop leech abuse
Christine Lozier-duprey are you originally from the Boston area ? Creature double feature Saturday afternoon oh the great memories and many good weather days missed especially when Godzilla movies were on
Leeches? They could only afford one freakin' leech who was a wimp and got taken out with two spears. I was hoping the leech would get the forest ranger who looked like one of the Village People with gun and holster
I love how the folks running never get ahead of the guy walking behind them.... classic. Then the wildlife guy...who is the last to realize there ain't no Gators around... Duh Oooh space rockets use nuclear energy in their first stages? Wow what a crock..er not crocodile, er alligator.
That is because giant leeches are things NOT to be messed-with! The only thing worse, to be perfectly candid . . . is GREEN SLIME! (Close relative to "The Blob.") . : .
As a small child I could watch these without flinching, but cartoons would scare me to death. Doesn't anyone else realize how hideous & grotesque the Flintstones are?
Nothing like a poor dark obscure picture to wonder what's going on. Makes the imagination run wild. Maybe I'm imagining it, but I hear animals from Africa, India, down-under and every other place in a southern bayou. Them leeches aren't your only worry.
I remember seeing this movie on Bob Wilkins "Creature Features" movies on Sat.nights with my older bros. They made funny remarks throughout the movie and I laughed my head off! These movies used to be scary when we were kids but, now they seem "corny" by today's standards.
Yvette Vickers' life ended up very sadly. I read a couple of accounts in which she had been found dead and decayed after being out of touch for a long time. Pictures of her later in life showed her as being very bloated.
"But old movies were the best!" Yeah, you know, where the boom's in the shot, prop men run off screen mid-scene, and actors were just figuring out how to pretend.
They sure like using the word Attack in the title of horror movies of back in that era, Attack of the 50 foot woman, attack of the crab monsters, attack of the puppet people, attack of the Mushroom people
Well I got done with the movie and I thought I was pretty good it was a nice classic I feel sorry for the portal each is religious but eh you know For the poor leeches I just started another version of it one and a later time period I'll be doing a review on that to see how that 1 looks But this black-and-white one I'll give it a 13 out of 13 skulls I actually thought it was good classic movie I enjoyed it
A movie about Leeches, made when EVERY man and his dog smoked cigarettes? The poor critters all would gave died from getting touched by the burning end, curled up and died
well those leeches have to be intelligent because they only stop feeding and drop off when they are completely full and can't hold any more blood, so with them being as big as they are to be full up they would have to completely drain a full sized person and then maybe even some of a second or third person.. this game warden is looking for a creature that has already killed a full sized man who was armed with a rifle and so he takes his girl friend on this hunting expedition !!
I saw this movie when I was a kid. Very funny and corney. Yvette Vickers was pretty. To bad about her death. A hard working actress. I'm a Film critic. Rating is fair to good.
This is just one of many "B" grade movies that was so successful, when it was first released, for 1 certain very odd reason. Because it was so very bad, it was actually very good.
Whatever they spent money on when they made this film, it sure wasn't cinematography. There are night scenes so dark that the screen is virtually a solid black rectangle, and other night scenes that were obviously shot during the day. Oh, and on an unrelated subject: since when do leeches (radioactively mutated or not) have arms?
This is a very bad transfer. I saw this in the theater and the exposures were perfect. Well, yes, they did shoot day for night, and unless one really does it a certain way--such as never frame the shot with bright sky in it---it never works. (I have a still photo of those "leech" costumes. They don't really have arms, but the people inside of them have to manipulate and lift things in ways that only something with arms could, so....they act as if they had arms (and are using them even tho they are very restricted to remaining inside the costumes.
@@RSEFX: Thanks for such an intelligent reply. Your comment about the costumes made me think about one of my favorite GOOD films, Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful", starring Kirk Douglas. In an obvious homage to the making of Val Lewton's "Cat People", Douglas and his best friend, when they are apprentice directors on Poverty Row in Hollywood, are required to direct a low-budget stinker called "The Cat Men", where a hilarious combination of overweight extras and badly-made costumes results in "cat men" who can't be zipped up in the back. Ah, the travails of monster-making...
Shame how Yvette Vickers ("Liz") died in real life. She laid on the floor of her Benedict Canyon home for a year, rotting into the floor boards before she was found by a neighbor who said they "cared". If they really "cared", she wouldnt have rotted into the damned floor like that for almost a year!!
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Why do you give an extremely detailed description of this movie...from beginning to end? You told every pertinent bit of the plot! If, I had read this , I would never have watched!
You should live stream these classics every saturday night. The comment section would be a hoot! ;)
Giant leeches was a funny low
Budget film. I loved it with Yvette
Vickers. Great fun. I was a kid At
That time.
@@MrLyndarenaudby by
This film is the reason I avoided learning to swim, until well into my adult life🙃
That organ music makes me feel like taking out my roller skates from the 1950's and go to town with them.
This is the first monster movie i remember as a kid. scared the hell out of me! Can't believe i'm watching it again lol.
Me too. This and the Snow Creature.
I love these old black and white scary movies! Takes me back to my childhood!
Me too! Are you still there?
I was so in the mood for a 1950's B science fiction movie with bad special effects (the rubber costumes for the leeches) and a theremin. Thank you, this movie checked all the boxes. Liked and Subscribed.
Are you still around? I like to go to sleep listening to this movie. Poor Dave Walker. A killer wife but she didn't love him!
Those old Roger Corman pictures were always fun. Used to watch them at the fleabag Tumbleweed Theater in El Monte when I was a kiddo.
It's 2022, and we still love these loveable relics from the 1950's that they just don"t make any more. Hell, they don't make classical sculpture in the Roman Empire either! It's funny to think that movies like this are America's unique contribution to the history of the world.
The part of the Leech was played by my ex-wife, The Anti-Christ. She's now living in Florida and working at a dairy, turning cream sour.
Oh man.
Why did you pick her?
The love of your life.
-sorry to hear that...-
I love this movie and I love when mystery science theater 3000 did it
Honeyyyyyyy WEST!
We're a danger to ourselves and others!
From the title, I thought this flick was about the legal profession.
No, bankers
Its about politicians feeding on the public.
Sure there are plenty of giant leeches about. The 2-legged kind.
I would have never known this was a low budget sci-fi film. When filming the opening night shot they had someone shine a flashlight on the guy in the boat.
This was a fun movie. Some super corny acting, and the story kinda ran empty sometimes, but some great funny lines and cool designs when it came to the leeches. Thanks for sharing! :)
It's like Saturday afternoon when I was a kid.
Why are so many of these older sci-fi/monster movies posted in only 480P? The print itself is in bad enough shape as it is. This deserves at least 720P quality picture.
It's the 21st century now, but these old black and white monster movies still rock the house. This 1959 version from Roger Corman is actually better than the 2015 remake from the Kings of Horror -- and their version is not bad.
I remember this and monsters of THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH. I remembered these creatures making the same noise, but they don't. God, these with HR puffnstuff and Dot, I was in high heaven
Horror of party beach ruled!! AKA the hot dog monsters lmao
Did anyone notice Dave fire five or six shots, before he stopped to reload a double barrelled shotgun?
One of those magic shotguns.😁
They shoulda drained the swamp!
I wish Trump would too.
@@2pi628 He'd go right down the drain himself!
@@capkronos00 Isn't this movie about his family?
There's never any reason to credit Roger Corman as a producer for his movies. You just look at the title and know it's him.
Actually, the producer for the movie is Gene Corman, Roger's brother. Roger Corman is in the credits as the executive producer.
Thanks for telling me about the whole movie ! ! !
this scared me sleepless as a kid enjoyed it, no need to wait for my big brother to come home, were old men now, lol.
Well the film is really grade Z but love that Vickers girl.
All collectors/connoisseurs of The Welte-Mignon might here take note of the fact that, none other than Alexander 'Szandor' Laszlo himself composed the creepy music for this classic. A positive foreshadowing of this may be perceived in his self-composed record-rolls that he'd recorded in Germany in the early days, when just beginning his career - these being 'of the strange' already. Thus far, and most mysteriously NO photographs have yet been found to exist of his actual living visage!!!
. : .
Patrick Hockstetter would've hated this movie. He died (in the novel) a year before this was made.
He died in the novel but would have hated the movie? Sounds weird
@@sciencenatein the novel patrick was absolutely terrified of leeches. (SPOILER ALERT) it was described that patrick had gone swimming in a lake with his parents as a little kid; when he got out, he was covered in leeches and began to scream and panic, assuming they’d drain him of his blood and his ‘essence’. his dad would pull off the bloody leeches and traumatise him up until his death in the novel when pennywise manifested the flying leeches to fly out of his junkyard refrigerator, attack him and drain him of most of his blood and drag him down into the sewers.
Good fun in this low budget flick.
"And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters either."
Thanks for posting!!!!
I liked this. reminds me of being a kid
Me too, ha ha
Florida Man, in important ways we still are kids inside. For more information and details try and see the "Kick The Can" episode of The Twilight Zone, probably available right here on TH-cam. (Don't get left behind!)
. : .
51:31 my favorite camera motion in the entire film. That crooked palm tree is the best.
Not knocked down by any hurricane!
leeches are saving alot of lifes helping in surgeries reducing blood pressure Leech therapy's during and after these surgeries helps the body to heal more naturally and completely. Leech therapy's benefits for blood circulation has also led some people use leech therapy to treat baldness and hair loss on the scalp.
Because leeches produce and literally suck blood from the surface of skin, they are often used to revive delicate veins and improve blood flow following a tissue reattachment procedure Leeches especially Hirudo medicinalis and without this work, cells will be dead thus failure of tissue reconnecting. stop leech abuse
Great Movie to keep one entertained, thank you- Mare
GREAT I ENJOYED IT A LOT
Creature Double Feature on Saturdays - the only thing that would distract us kids on a Saturday afternoon, keeping us in the house. ;)
(Sue C.S. :) )
Christine Lozier-duprey are you originally from the Boston area ? Creature double feature Saturday afternoon oh the great memories and many good weather days missed especially when Godzilla movies were on
Leeches? They could only afford one freakin' leech who was a wimp and got taken out with two spears. I was hoping the leech would get the forest ranger who looked like one of the Village People with gun and holster
I love how the folks running never get ahead of the guy walking behind them.... classic.
Then the wildlife guy...who is the last to realize there ain't no Gators around... Duh
Oooh space rockets use nuclear energy in their first stages? Wow what a crock..er not crocodile, er alligator.
as a tax payer I know exactly what this is about
Well, I'm Gonna Miss Them. Now We Gotta Go Hang Out At The Grocery Store Again.
This movie creeped me out/scared me so badly when I was a kid!!
That is because giant leeches are things NOT to be messed-with! The only thing worse, to be perfectly candid . . . is GREEN SLIME! (Close relative to "The Blob.")
. : .
As a small child I could watch these without flinching, but cartoons would scare me to death. Doesn't anyone else realize how hideous & grotesque the Flintstones are?
Nothing like a poor dark obscure picture to wonder what's going on.
Makes the imagination run wild. Maybe I'm imagining it, but I hear animals from Africa, India, down-under and every other place in a southern bayou. Them leeches aren't your only worry.
Bruno Ve Sota and Wiliam Conrad, separated at birth.
This movie rules!!!!! I want one them giant leech suits as a sleeping bag..Great b budget hick classic ....
Hopefully mankind will be safe now,that was a close one.....
The lighting budget on this movie was low. I’m all for building atmosphere…but dang!
Sheriff said don't use no dynamite dad or I will lock you up. See what he uses to kill the monster.
I remember seeing this movie on Bob Wilkins "Creature Features" movies on Sat.nights with my older bros. They made funny remarks throughout the movie and I laughed my head off! These movies used to be scary when we were kids but, now they seem "corny" by today's standards.
Charles Aguilar But,I love this movie!
These days, scary movies don't have creatures as the monsters terrifying us. They have people who are the monsters!
Ah yes...I sure miss old Bob Wilkins. Him and Dr. Don Rose. We'll never have those days back....
This flick reminds me of Mystery Science Theater 2000! Loved the campy vibe 😄
Giant leeches....just the sound of that alone can sound....well, pretty scary and gross.
Yvette Vickers' life ended up very sadly. I read a couple of accounts in which she had been found dead and decayed after being out of touch for a long time. Pictures of her later in life showed her as being very bloated.
read that also where she was mummified and found by another actress neighbor
@@janmoore3175 Aye~ nearly one year after she died- alone!
At 17:18 you can see the boom,in car reflection.
Good catch!
"But old movies were the best!"
Yeah, you know, where the boom's in the shot, prop men run off screen mid-scene, and actors were just figuring out how to pretend.
They sure like using the word Attack in the title of horror movies of back in that era, Attack of the 50 foot woman, attack of the crab monsters, attack of the puppet people, attack of the Mushroom people
Subpar Tennessee Williams + rubber monsters = fun!!
Well I got done with the movie and I thought I was pretty good it was a nice classic I feel sorry for the portal each is religious but eh you know For the poor leeches I just started another version of it one and a later time period I'll be doing a review on that to see how that 1 looks But this black-and-white one I'll give it a 13 out of 13 skulls I actually thought it was good classic movie I enjoyed it
A movie about Leeches, made when EVERY man and his dog smoked cigarettes? The poor critters all would gave died from getting touched by the burning end, curled up and died
Are there Kookaburras in the southern US? (30:21) 😀
well those leeches have to be intelligent because they only stop feeding and drop off when they are completely full and can't hold any more blood, so with them being as big as they are to be full up they would have to completely drain a full sized person and then maybe even some of a second or third person.. this game warden is looking for a creature that has already killed a full sized man who was armed with a rifle and so he takes his girl friend on this hunting expedition !!
Ken Clark was such a hottie.
I probably wasn’t allowed in the theater when this came out lol
Yvette Vickers. Looking good.
This movie definitely not for children! Huge monsters biting screaming, bleeding people around their necks and sucking blood out of them. 😖😝
Too bad this was apparently filmed in the dark.
Good film
Yvette Vickers at her best.
That she cat... Lmao
Nice.
Sounds like they're describing the U.S. government
I saw this movie when I was a kid.
Very funny and corney. Yvette Vickers was pretty. To bad about her death. A hard working actress. I'm a
Film critic. Rating is fair to good.
No TV at that time, just hot broads exhibiting their goods. Nice.
Actually, mainstream television's been around since the late 1940s, possibly even earlier.
Dave Walker is a real man. My kind of guy. The other two were so awful.
Liz honey, Liz baby. One of these days I'm goanna give that she cat a whooping she's been looking fer.
I'm looking from argentine!!!!
Nostalgic.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Giant leeches! Hahahaha!!!
16:05 I ain't dirty Liz BABY 16:25 I love you liz Baby.
Yvette Vickers 😍
But.......Dave!!!
Liz honey, Liz baby!
My name is susan lauriello and i agree
This is just one of many "B" grade movies that was so successful, when it was
first released, for 1 certain very odd reason. Because it was so very bad, it was
actually very good.
Frightening!
Why do they always play a saxaphone when there is a good looking blond? Where did that come from? Does anybody know?
Let's take a small rowboat, get a box of dynamite and put it in the deepest part of the pond nd watch the bodies float to the surface.
This, film made me Sexually Excited
wth
When he wired the detonator, the plunger was up. When he went to utilize the detonator, the plunger was down.
Ruined the whole movie for me… :-(
somebody's college project
36:15
Better copy here - tubitv.com/movies/275191/attack_of_the_giant_leeches
GGX GANG GANG
The leeches look like they are just giving people hickeys, the leache costumes look really poorly made.
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What ''app''?
Whatever they spent money on when they made this film, it sure wasn't cinematography. There are night scenes so dark that the screen is virtually a solid black rectangle, and other night scenes that were obviously shot during the day.
Oh, and on an unrelated subject: since when do leeches (radioactively mutated or not) have arms?
This is a very bad transfer. I saw this in the theater and the exposures were perfect. Well, yes, they did shoot day for night, and unless one really does it a certain way--such as never frame the shot with bright sky in it---it never works. (I have a still photo of those "leech" costumes. They don't really have arms, but the people inside of them have to manipulate and lift things in ways that only something with arms could, so....they act as if they had arms (and are using them even tho they are very restricted to remaining inside the costumes.
@@RSEFX: Thanks for such an intelligent reply. Your comment about the costumes made me think about one of my favorite GOOD films, Vincente Minnelli's "The Bad and the Beautiful", starring Kirk Douglas. In an obvious homage to the making of Val Lewton's "Cat People", Douglas and his best friend, when they are apprentice directors on Poverty Row in Hollywood, are required to direct a low-budget stinker called "The Cat Men", where a hilarious combination of overweight extras and badly-made costumes results in "cat men" who can't be zipped up in the back. Ah, the travails of monster-making...
Oh that stupid dress with the shoulder straps that fall off!
A classic maybe, timeless not so much ;)
Hmm.
Shame how Yvette Vickers ("Liz") died in real life. She laid on the floor of her Benedict Canyon home for a year, rotting into the floor boards before she was found by a neighbor who said they "cared". If they really "cared", she wouldnt have rotted into the damned floor like that for almost a year!!
Very sad.
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It's about your wife.
So scary I pooped a little.
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