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.

So first off I saw the original on Creature Feature when I was like 7 and it was scary and creepy. AS bas as that movie was the costumes looked amazing (for the time) and being black and white made it even scarier. While it may have been shlocky the actors all took the roles seriosly and the horror in their faces felt genuine.

I have litterally seen high school plays with better acting that this movie, and the 'so called screams' of the actors is nothing short of laughable, too bad the movie is not funny at all even a 'so bad its funny' mode. Save your time.

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.

Let us endeavor to conjecture and propose a supposition pertaining to a conundrum I am experiencing after viewing this atrocity. Variable one pertains to a Roger Corman. This is a man with an incredible propensity for the creation of films on a minimal budget and almost ALWAYS a profit on his investment. He truly is the king of exploitation films. This being a remake (probably due to the film being out of copyright date) is of a 1959 movie he made.

So how does one create a movie to begin with on a minimal budget that still exceeds the product created decades later? Could it be an overwhelming plethora of non-talent?

I have a great affinity for actors that do horrible hillbilly stereotypes with Canadian accents. The "Leeches" are hand puppets that can be misconstrued for earthworms on steroids. I did find the "rifle" that was supposed to be a shotgun but was a toy musket seen multiple times. They try to exploit young ladies which has absolutely no impact in sexually gratuity within the film. We get a few scenes of a marsh but the action takes place around a lake, no marsh or swamp. Our hillbillies are supposed to be comical relief while we wait for a meteorite to plummet to earth and obliterate them. The sheriff inhabits room 12 with crap being stored in some building somewhere.

Let us examine one scene in particular. A search party has been gathered to attempt to locate two bodies. Several men follow the sheriff down the shore of a lake, not a marsh. All follow after the sheriff. Would it not behoove them to "Spread out" instead of following him and looking at their feet literally as they walk? One idiot is looking up in the trees where many a body has been known to be discovered. If only the Lockness monster would have interjected itself into the movie and consumed the entire cast, that would have been worth watching.

The Corman version of this movie receives a 3.5 on the IMDb which sounds about right. If you view the MST3K riffing of the Corman movie then it is a 7.0 as this film rates a 1.9 and should be considerably lower.

After viewing this movie I made preparation to invoke the great Cuthulu and the old ones to enter this dimension to rule but they declined because it is too dark and forbidding a place even for them and with absolutely nothing original that can be done in writing, films or art we are all in a pathetic Hell anyway.

This is a sad excuse for a remake of the horror classic Attack of the Giant Leeches. That movie is in the public domain so this person did not get permission or anything they just took the plot and name and made their own pathetic version to literally "Leech" off of that movie. The poster looks OK but the sound and picture quality of the movie is pathetic or worse.

SHAME on you Brett Kelly and co for ripping off this cult horror classic and turning it into this useless and amateurish mess. You all suck and should quit, Never make another film.