Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) [Science Fiction] [Horror]

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • "Attack of the Giant Leeches" is a low-budget 1959 Science Fiction film from American International Pictures. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, produced by Gene Corman, and the screenplay was written by Leo Gordon. The film is in black and white, and runs for 62 minutes. It was one of a spate of monster movies produced during the 1950s in response to cold war fears; in the film a character speculates that the no-no leeches have been mutated to terrible giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral.
    This film was also called Attack of the Blood Leeches, Demons of the Swamp, The Demons of the Swamp, and War of the Giant Leeches.
    In the Florida Everglades, a pair of larger-than-human, intelligent leeches are living in an underwater cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them prisoner and slowly drain them of blood. One of the first people to be so taken is the local vixen, Liz Walker, played by Yvette Vickers. After a couple of gratuitous displays of flesh (Yvette appeared as the centerfold in the July 1959 issue of Playboy), and some running around on her husband (Bruno VeSota), Liz finds herself a prisoner of the leeches along with her current paramour. Game warden Steve Benton (Ken Clark) sets out to investigate their disappearance. Aided by his girlfriend Nan Grayson (Jan Sheppard) and her father, Doc Grayson, he discovers the cavern. The monsters are finally destroyed when Steve, Doc, and some state troopers blow up the cavern with dynamite.
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    Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, produced by Gene Corman and Roger Corman, written by Leo Gordon, starring Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers and Jan Shepard.
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    Source: "Attack of the Giant Leeches" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 12 June 2012. Web.16 July 2012. en.wikipedia.or....
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  • @TimelessClassicMovie
    @TimelessClassicMovie  7 лет назад +22

    If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: goo.gl/0qDmXe

    • @MrLyndarenaud
      @MrLyndarenaud 5 лет назад +1

      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!

    • @2pi628
      @2pi628 4 года назад

      You should live stream these classics every saturday night. The comment section would be a hoot! ;)

    • @bradfordmiller637
      @bradfordmiller637 2 года назад +1

      Giant leeches was a funny low
      Budget film. I loved it with Yvette
      Vickers. Great fun. I was a kid At
      That time.

    • @bradfordmiller637
      @bradfordmiller637 2 года назад

      @@MrLyndarenaudby by

    • @OdeeOz
      @OdeeOz 2 года назад

      This film is the reason I avoided learning to swim, until well into my adult life🙃

  • @markrubin9449
    @markrubin9449 4 года назад +16

    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.

  • @Onlypeachy
    @Onlypeachy 5 лет назад +15

    I love these old black and white scary movies! Takes me back to my childhood!

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 Год назад +1

      Me too! Are you still there?

  • @Ryoufriggingserious
    @Ryoufriggingserious 6 лет назад +37

    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.

    • @Mr.56Goldtop
      @Mr.56Goldtop 10 дней назад +1

      Me too. This and the Snow Creature.

  • @rafaelmadrigal1534
    @rafaelmadrigal1534 6 лет назад +26

    That organ music makes me feel like taking out my roller skates from the 1950's and go to town with them.

  • @carnivalwrestler
    @carnivalwrestler 5 лет назад +19

    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.

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 Год назад +1

      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!

  • @FlowerPatchH
    @FlowerPatchH 5 лет назад +15

    I love this movie and I love when mystery science theater 3000 did it

    • @FuckYouWhosNext
      @FuckYouWhosNext 4 года назад +1

      Honeyyyyyyy WEST!

    • @bancoran
      @bancoran 2 года назад

      We're a danger to ourselves and others!

  • @dustykatz2744
    @dustykatz2744 5 лет назад +6

    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.

  • @factenter6787
    @factenter6787 4 года назад +7

    Sure there are plenty of giant leeches about. The 2-legged kind.

  • @johnoliva5153
    @johnoliva5153 5 лет назад +11

    It's like Saturday afternoon when I was a kid.

  • @alonzocalvillo6702
    @alonzocalvillo6702 6 лет назад +36

    They shoulda drained the swamp!

    • @2pi628
      @2pi628 4 года назад +3

      I wish Trump would too.

    • @capkronos00
      @capkronos00 3 года назад

      @@2pi628 He'd go right down the drain himself!

    • @johnmuller4014
      @johnmuller4014 3 года назад

      @@capkronos00 Isn't this movie about his family?

  • @topgeardel
    @topgeardel 4 года назад +3

    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.

  • @histubeness
    @histubeness 4 года назад +1

    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.

  • @badbobbybadbobbyb5889
    @badbobbybadbobbyb5889 5 лет назад +5

    Did anyone notice Dave fire five or six shots, before he stopped to reload a double barrelled shotgun?

  • @poopypants814
    @poopypants814 2 года назад +5

    If this movie was any darker I'd be watching it in braille

  • @AlkisenSuper
    @AlkisenSuper 7 лет назад +9

    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! :)

  • @joemysterymusic
    @joemysterymusic 5 лет назад +13

    Well the film is really grade Z but love that Vickers girl.

  • @kylefrank638
    @kylefrank638 5 лет назад +6

    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.

    • @zanti4132
      @zanti4132 4 года назад +1

      Actually, the producer for the movie is Gene Corman, Roger's brother. Roger Corman is in the credits as the executive producer.

  • @jamesmiller4184
    @jamesmiller4184 5 лет назад +5

    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!!!
    . : .

  • @fredteeful
    @fredteeful 7 лет назад +6

    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.

  • @Sonja_Jae
    @Sonja_Jae 5 лет назад +3

    Patrick Hockstetter would've hated this movie. He died (in the novel) a year before this was made.

    • @sciencenate
      @sciencenate 5 месяцев назад +1

      He died in the novel but would have hated the movie? Sounds weird

    • @Sonja_Jae
      @Sonja_Jae 5 месяцев назад

      @@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.

  • @ChiefWP
    @ChiefWP 11 лет назад +10

    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. :) )

    • @nightfangs2910
      @nightfangs2910 6 лет назад +2

      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

  • @bullfrogmckenzie9742
    @bullfrogmckenzie9742 6 лет назад +9

    I liked this. reminds me of being a kid

    • @lindasnide.warren1519
      @lindasnide.warren1519 5 лет назад +1

      Me too, ha ha

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 5 лет назад

      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 RUclips. (Don't get left behind!)
      . : .

  • @mickeyray3793
    @mickeyray3793 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @WG-tt6hk
    @WG-tt6hk 6 лет назад +47

    From the title, I thought this flick was about the legal profession.

    • @TonyMontana-qv8cx
      @TonyMontana-qv8cx 6 лет назад +10

      No, bankers

    • @2pi628
      @2pi628 4 года назад

      Its about politicians feeding on the public.

  • @ergbudster3333
    @ergbudster3333 7 лет назад +2

    "And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters either."

  • @sydneyhamilton2575
    @sydneyhamilton2575 6 лет назад +3

    Well, I'm Gonna Miss Them. Now We Gotta Go Hang Out At The Grocery Store Again.

  • @eriksojka9209
    @eriksojka9209 6 лет назад +2

    Thanks for posting!!!!

  • @malgremor85
    @malgremor85 Год назад

    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?

  • @wilde4445
    @wilde4445 11 лет назад +4

    Great Movie to keep one entertained, thank you- Mare

  • @terryjohns3252
    @terryjohns3252 7 лет назад +10

    as a tax payer I know exactly what this is about

  • @markgarin6355
    @markgarin6355 5 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @coppingtonfarnham7731
    @coppingtonfarnham7731 4 года назад +2

    Bruno Ve Sota and Wiliam Conrad, separated at birth.

  • @ChiefWP
    @ChiefWP 11 лет назад +1

    This movie creeped me out/scared me so badly when I was a kid!!

    • @jamesmiller4184
      @jamesmiller4184 5 лет назад

      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.")
      . : .

  • @msolyapolya
    @msolyapolya 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @simonmcjohn
    @simonmcjohn Год назад +1

    GREAT I ENJOYED IT A LOT

  • @jonanjello
    @jonanjello 6 лет назад +3

    51:31 my favorite camera motion in the entire film. That crooked palm tree is the best.

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 Год назад

      Not knocked down by any hurricane!

  • @ajweberman
    @ajweberman 5 лет назад +2

    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

  • @herrarnold
    @herrarnold 4 года назад +2

    I'm looking from argentine!!!!

  • @fuzzballzz36
    @fuzzballzz36 5 лет назад +2

    Subpar Tennessee Williams + rubber monsters = fun!!

  • @juliecrawford5288
    @juliecrawford5288 5 лет назад +2

    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.

  • @bradfordmiller637
    @bradfordmiller637 2 года назад

    Good film

  • @shanemills3879
    @shanemills3879 10 месяцев назад

    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

  • @bluemouse5039
    @bluemouse5039 10 месяцев назад

    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

  • @coolaprilfool1335
    @coolaprilfool1335 2 года назад

    Hopefully mankind will be safe now,that was a close one.....

  • @monstersrobotsmayhem
    @monstersrobotsmayhem 2 года назад +1

    Why do these RUclips uploaders put their watermark on PUBLIC DOMAIN movies? They DO NOT OWN THEM!!!

  • @JoefromSoCal
    @JoefromSoCal 4 года назад +1

    Yvette Vickers. Looking good.

  • @drewidrie2396
    @drewidrie2396 4 месяца назад +1

    Sounds like they're describing the U.S. government

  • @TomBacchus
    @TomBacchus 7 лет назад +4

    Ken Clark was such a hottie.

  • @alanpeterson6224
    @alanpeterson6224 4 года назад +2

    Too bad this was apparently filmed in the dark.

  • @gailgarza8033
    @gailgarza8033 4 года назад +3

    Dave Walker is a real man. My kind of guy. The other two were so awful.

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 Год назад

      Liz honey, Liz baby. One of these days I'm goanna give that she cat a whooping she's been looking fer.

  • @regis387
    @regis387 4 года назад +1

    Are there Kookaburras in the southern US? (30:21) 😀

  • @grimreaper7901
    @grimreaper7901 2 года назад +2

    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

  • @bradfordmiller637
    @bradfordmiller637 2 года назад +1

    Yvette Vickers at her best.

  • @njva17420
    @njva17420 3 года назад +1

    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.

    • @janmoore3175
      @janmoore3175 Год назад

      read that also where she was mummified and found by another actress neighbor

    • @DavidRice111
      @DavidRice111 10 месяцев назад

      @@janmoore3175 Aye~ nearly one year after she died- alone!

  • @HiyaMalaika
    @HiyaMalaika 3 года назад

    I probably wasn’t allowed in the theater when this came out lol

  • @charlesaguilar8301
    @charlesaguilar8301 7 лет назад +7

    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.

    • @tracysimmons3860
      @tracysimmons3860 7 лет назад +3

      Charles Aguilar But,I love this movie!

    • @MrLyndarenaud
      @MrLyndarenaud 5 лет назад

      These days, scary movies don't have creatures as the monsters terrifying us. They have people who are the monsters!

    • @FrankiesFancy
      @FrankiesFancy 5 лет назад

      Ah yes...I sure miss old Bob Wilkins. Him and Dr. Don Rose. We'll never have those days back....

    • @deniseandrews113
      @deniseandrews113 5 лет назад +1

      This flick reminds me of Mystery Science Theater 2000! Loved the campy vibe 😄

  • @tmo4330
    @tmo4330 Год назад

    Liz honey, Liz baby!

  • @marioriospinot
    @marioriospinot 9 лет назад +1

    Nice.

  • @AltaAnastazYah
    @AltaAnastazYah 4 года назад

    Nostalgic.

  • @wa1ufo
    @wa1ufo 7 лет назад +1

    Frightening!

  • @dragonfly492
    @dragonfly492 6 лет назад +2

    But.......Dave!!!

  • @rafaelmadrigal1534
    @rafaelmadrigal1534 6 лет назад +4

    No TV at that time, just hot broads exhibiting their goods. Nice.

    • @Bauglir100
      @Bauglir100 4 года назад +1

      Actually, mainstream television's been around since the late 1940s, possibly even earlier.

  • @tracysimmons3860
    @tracysimmons3860 7 лет назад +3

    At 17:18 you can see the boom,in car reflection.

    • @mosesmosestv
      @mosesmosestv 7 лет назад

      Good catch!

    • @naota3k
      @naota3k 6 лет назад +3

      "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.

  • @nancyhowell4505
    @nancyhowell4505 3 года назад

    This movie definitely not for children! Huge monsters biting screaming, bleeding people around their necks and sucking blood out of them. 😖😝

  • @susanlauriello4649
    @susanlauriello4649 5 лет назад +1

    My name is susan lauriello and i agree

  • @jennifersmith1575
    @jennifersmith1575 6 лет назад +3

    That she cat... Lmao

  • @ayoleek6835
    @ayoleek6835 6 лет назад +1

    GGX GANG GANG

  • @wpankey57
    @wpankey57 Год назад

    Why do they always play a saxaphone when there is a good looking blond? Where did that come from? Does anybody know?

  • @michalslatina8004
    @michalslatina8004 4 года назад +1

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Giant leeches! Hahahaha!!!

  • @MegaWam1
    @MegaWam1 Год назад

    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.

  • @nancyfetzek7318
    @nancyfetzek7318 6 лет назад +2

    somebody's college project

  • @petekanter8120
    @petekanter8120 2 года назад

    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.

  • @BusStopProductions.
    @BusStopProductions. 3 года назад

    This, film made me Sexually Excited

  • @bush43disarmedgadhafiofwmd67
    @bush43disarmedgadhafiofwmd67 6 лет назад +1

    Hmm.

  • @mrtour287
    @mrtour287 3 года назад

    🎬

  • @holymacarony_8784
    @holymacarony_8784 4 года назад

    A classic maybe, timeless not so much ;)

  • @FrankiesFancy
    @FrankiesFancy 5 лет назад +1

    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!!

  • @susanparker767
    @susanparker767 2 года назад

    👀

  • @kerrygraham3544
    @kerrygraham3544 Год назад

    Oh that stupid dress with the shoulder straps that fall off!

  • @victorwatson72
    @victorwatson72 11 лет назад

    Another not available what an app

  • @thebluemorpho6640
    @thebluemorpho6640 2 года назад

    36:15

  • @wojciechdziuba1485
    @wojciechdziuba1485 2 года назад

    3

  • @Cracktaculus
    @Cracktaculus 3 года назад

    It's about your wife.

  • @tadimaggio
    @tadimaggio 5 лет назад

    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?

    • @RSEFX
      @RSEFX 5 лет назад

      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.

    • @tadimaggio
      @tadimaggio 5 лет назад

      @@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...

  • @tracysimmons3860
    @tracysimmons3860 7 лет назад +4

    16:05 I ain't dirty Liz BABY 16:25 I love you liz Baby.

  • @discoqueenmom
    @discoqueenmom 4 года назад

    The leeches look like they are just giving people hickeys, the leache costumes look really poorly made.

  • @tinicum54
    @tinicum54 5 лет назад

    So scary I pooped a little.

  • @darylcumming7119
    @darylcumming7119 3 года назад

    😷

  • @Memo-vu3zp
    @Memo-vu3zp 4 года назад

    Better copy here - tubitv.com/movies/275191/attack_of_the_giant_leeches

  • @pig5267
    @pig5267 3 года назад

    T

  • @filipinainaforeignland3552
    @filipinainaforeignland3552 5 лет назад +5

    Must be a movie about democrats

  • @kathyflorcruz552
    @kathyflorcruz552 6 лет назад +3

    SOCIALISTS!!

  • @zenonroynynns4423
    @zenonroynynns4423 2 года назад

    Adolf Hitler żre pizzę! Grubs gra na perkusji! Tede objada się arbuzami! Popek nie ma kaca! Mam teraz very bad trip of junkie and alcoholic 666! Smoker! Scythe and brain!

  • @donald9584
    @donald9584 7 лет назад +2

    To Predicable ...same cliche ...white guy kills monster..gets the broad...

  • @jasonruetz2306
    @jasonruetz2306 Год назад

    Welp that problem with the cheating wife and scumbag friend just kinda took care of itself. 👌

  • @robjohnson8861
    @robjohnson8861 5 лет назад +6

    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

    • @FrankiesFancy
      @FrankiesFancy 5 лет назад +1

      Horror of party beach ruled!! AKA the hot dog monsters lmao

  • @Sargonce1
    @Sargonce1 4 года назад +3

    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.

  • @arielnagora5316
    @arielnagora5316 6 лет назад +3

    Thanks for telling me about the whole movie ! ! !

  • @scottconnors8419
    @scottconnors8419 4 года назад +1

    This movie rules!!!!! I want one them giant leech suits as a sleeping bag..Great b budget hick classic ....