Attack of the Giant Leeches

I didn't know whether to think this was a fan-made version or an actual remake version of the 1959 classic. But regardless of what it actually was, then it stunk to high heaven.

The storyline in "Attack of the Giant Leeches" was adequate, or well at least as it can be for a movie of this type.

But it all snapped with the horrible acting, even worse dialogue and production value of the movie. You have to look long and far to find such an abysmal movie. They are out there, but luckily rare.

IT was so difficult to take anything in this movie even remotely serious, aside from one thing; the leeches. Now, they could have been better, much, much better, mind you. But they were like pure gold compared to everything else in this movie.

This 2008 version of "Attack of the Giant Leeches" should be given a wide berth. Some of us suffered through it so you don't have to.

My rating of two out of ten stars is solely because of the leeches. Everything else in the movie wasn't worth the marsh in which most of the movie took place.

This is a stinker, guys. You have been warned.

To be very honest, this film is undoubtedly inferior to its predecessor since being a remake, it should offer a better caliber in terms of production, special effects and even gore, but instead, it is another more low-budget film that is far from the original version that It had a little more caliber. The only thing that stands out are the animatronic leeches and some other elements, but the movie feels a bit cheap and the blood and effects look quite fake. It's like a movie made by newbies. I rate it with a 5/10 since at the end it is just an unnecessary remake of Roger Corman's original movie.

I really like the original version this from 1959. But this remake has awful acting. It also an awful script. It is not scary. The 1959 version is very scary. This is not scary at all. Do not see this movie. It is an awful movie.

The original Attack of the Giant Leeches is a classic "bad B-movie" horror film that isn't scary but you will definitely laugh at it and enjoy it with friends. This movie just takes advantage of the fact it is a public domain movie, steals the title and story and literally (pun intended) leeches off of that film with this. The problem is zero effort went into it. The sound and picture are so bad I barely could sit through the whole film. The acting is terrible. They clearly didn't care about the movie or viewers at all, just about getting enough screen time on camera to cash in on the original's title. This is shameful. Worst of all it's not even bad the way you can still enjoy and laugh at it, it's just a shameless and very, very boring waste of two hours I will never get back.

There is an old joke about "sound" technicians, common in the business. "They don't know what the hell they're doing." And low budget films suffer from it. Sound technicians make and break a film more than people know.

This film is a remake, very true to the original about giant monsters in a swamp. Like the original, the giant monsters come across more as "killers" than leeches.

The low budget has its shortcomings, but this really turned out very well.

The actors struggled, but when all of the actors struggle, you have to look and listen close. It becomes obvious that they had to sacrifice a lot for audibility. You can tell that the actors were of higher quality than they looked.

The original ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES was the king of cheese, with the champion of all time cheese still, when the muscle bound hero has a gun in one hand and a skimpy dressed, shapely blonde in the other.

And the original was not the classic science fiction style of the problem solving characters in the forefront. In fact, they were the backdrop, with the yokels in the forefront. The original was mostly Yvette Vickers, the sultry, shapely, super sexy long haired blond. It was her story. The original was Yvette 98%.

Here, the Yvette Vickers character is in the backdrop. Much of the reason is the production style.

The original used darker sets, which complimented the blond vixen. Here, we have bright sunshine. And bright sunshine is the enemy of blonde hair and pale skin. Our vixen is hardly a sexpot in this light. Nothing against the actress. She would be stunning in a dark light.

Which may be why we have the three needless additional girls in bikinis, whose darker complexions are more complimented by bright light. They serve little purpose for the story. However, their comic relief is fairly well placed.

While the vixen was the story in the original, in this version there are no favorites. Everyone has almost equal time.

Yet while the characters have close to equal time, the classic science fiction style of a focal group of principals is used.

What helps this low budget survive the turmoils of poor sound quality is "the characters". And the actors. Those who serve for comic relief are very adept. And the serious characters are better than your average film characters.

The camera work gives it an "ordinary" look, and the cast looks incredibly "next door neighbor" style, which works very well. While it is low budget, and sound quality is poor, it looks well blocked, and there are more assets than defects. This is very watchable. And despite some crinks, it is much more entertaining and satisfying than most of the modern science fiction you'll find with bigger budgets.

There are some nit picks. I didn't care for the "canned" macho fist fight, but that is minor, and pretty much a staple in action movies.

One gets the feeling that the editing wasn't quite ready. I wouldn't be surprised if it is reedited in the future, and that would make a huge difference.