Attack of the Giant Leeches

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski, Roger Corman Bernard L. Kowalski

Overview

A slimy chiller about a giant leech-infested swamp, where the leeches begin to prey on human flesh. When an innkeeper discovers that his wife has a lover, he forces the two of them into the swamp, and the leeches enjoy a GORE-met feast.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/09/2015
UPC:	0644827231928
Original Release:	1959
Source:	Reel Vault
Language:	English
Sales rank:	43,101

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ken Clarke	Steve Benton
Yvette Vickers	Liz Walker
Jan Shepard	Nan Greyson
Michael Emmet	Cal Moulton
Bruno Ve Sota	Dave Walker
Gene Roth	Sheriff
Tyler McVey	Doc Greyson
Dan White	Slim Reed
George Cisar	Lem Sawyer
Ken Clark	Actor
Alexander Laszlo	Composer

Technical Credits

Leo Gordon

Roger Corman	Executive Producer,Producer,Director
Bernard L. Kowalski	Director
Leo Gordon	Screenwriter
Al Overton	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Obese general store owner Bruno Ve Sota is married to sluttish teenager Yvette Vickers, who is cheating on him with his best friend, Michael Emmet. The trio ends up in the swamp, Ve Sota literally hunting down the adulterers with a shotgun. That situation alone should have made for an interesting tale, a sort of humid James M. Cain for the beat generation. But this is a Roger Corman production and into the mix are thrown a couple of stunt divers wearing what appears to be small ponchos with tentacles, the leeches of the title, and a hunky game warden (Ken Clark), who displays a disconcerting ignorance of alligators, the game he is hired to protect. The results are uneven at best but the swamp locations, filmed at Pasadena's Arboretum of Tarzan fame, are certainly picturesque and the cave sequence, photographed, according to co-star Yvette Vickers, at the old Charlie Chaplin Studios, at least somewhat creepy.