Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

mark.waltz While this film definitely ranks as a bomb (or should I say reeks), I must admit that I was very impressed by the speech that the hero makes in regards to why they cannot bomb the heck out of the ravine where an apparently giant leeches are living. Having scared the ferocious alligators away, they are spotted looking for lunch.Dealing with a middle aged husband trying to scare his trampy younger wife and her obvious lover, it quickly turns menacing when the husband witnesses his wife and her boyfriend being pulled into the marshes by something terrible. Sent to jail for their apparent parent murder, the husband probably hangs himself, little realizing that deep beneath could not quite so beautiful briny sea, the group of supposed victims are being munched on for a bloody snack for the actual giant creatures who crave fresh blood, leaving their victims with plunger like marks on their face as the way to die from the lack of plasma.Almost impossible to watch when you have to watch these leeches actually remove blood from their still living captives, this just becomes gross. It does happen on screen, giving this little explanation as to why tiny little leeches from the marsh are made huge simply by their reaction from the nearby Cape Canaveral. There are several major continuity mistakes, and the dialog is worse than rotten. Fortunately it is over in the hour, making that aspect of this of dreck all the more tolerable

Rainey Dawn I have to say this film surprised me, it's better than I expected it to be. Believe it or not, this film actually has somewhat of a story which is saying a lot for a film of this type! What was interesting to me was the character interactions and relationships within the film - that is something I did not expect with this movie.The giant leech costumes are a little disappointing but really not all that bad for a 1959 b-rated flick - it is what you might expect. Not all of the giant leech scenes are disappointing in fact some scenes are quite good in costuming & effects.The film is b-rated but it's not a very cheap looking low budget flick like one would expect - like I expected. The "eerie swamp" horror films are quite fun and this one is definitely in that category.This movie would make a good double feature with a film like Strangler of the Swamp (1946) or even Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954).6.5/10

piratecannon It would be tempting to say that Attack of the Giant Leeches is a colossal failure. The funny thing is that if it were released today, it would likely be praised for its campy genius; the way it accurately parodies the 50′s era B-flicks that pitted steely muscle-men against over-sized creatures of just about every kind. But that's just the thing—this is the real deal. And when I say "real," I mean it's really funny.If you don't know what it's about, allow me to fill you in: giant leeches kill stupid people. That's it. Sure, there's a little more to it than that, but it's not worth mentioning (And, I mean, come one: with a title like Attack of the Giant Leeches, are you seeing this because it's analogous to the literary brilliance glimpsed in Hamlet?). One cheesy scene after another documents the hi-jinks of dimwitted adulterers, stubborn wildlife officials, oddly resigned doctors, etc., etc., etc. The transitions between these occurrences are awkward and choppy—just like the acting—and the giant leeches look like men wearing black garbage bags. When we're finally allowed to see how they feed on their victims, it's actually pretty gruesome. They attach themselves to peoples' throats and drain their blood.I do think it's worth mentioning that as idiotic as all of this sounds, writer Leo Gordon actually makes an earnest effort to logically connect one event to the next and, to some measurable degree, at least acknowledge that his audience is not moronic and that this sort of feature is meant only to satisfy our most basic instincts.And that, of course, is to shy away in disgust and laugh while doing it. It was Stephen King who said that he believes "we're all mentally ill." Why else would we spend money to see something this dumb, gross, and—for its time—horrifying? Because, he suggests, there's something appealing about knowing that we're not in this situation. It's a form of affirmation that gives us the chance to feed what he calls "the gators" rolling around in that subterranean area of our brains.Or we could simply say that braving something this hideous is just a lot of fun.

bkoganbing Leo Gordon was a dual talent, as an actor he played some of the toughest people ever on screen and occasionally wrote some of those parts himself. He has an extensive list of credits as a writer as well as an actor. In Attack Of The Giant Leeches he also wrote the original story.Looking at this film I was reminded of The A-Team and how George Peppard did as a laugh between assignments play stupid looking movie monsters in grade Z science fiction films. Whatever, Gordon did not have the nerve to put himself in front of the camera on this one. He wouldn't do that for Roger Corman here.Although no one ever noticed it life on a particular swamp in the south seems to have gone out of a particular stretch of lake. So when moonshiner/poacher George Cisar best known as Sergeant Mooney on Dennis The Menace sees some strange creature in the swamp water everyone gives him the horselaugh.No one laughs though when two timing Baby Doll wife Yvette Vickers disappears with her paramour Michael Emmet. In fact they suspect her husband George VeSoto of doing them in. Then two more swamp rednecks disappear.What's doing it is giant human size leeches who not only suck the blood out of their prey, but they take them down to their underwater cavern where they don't drain them completely but keep them around to snack on later. They've kept Vickers around for a while, I guess they don't get too many curvaceous blonds in tank tops down there.Hero of the day is game warden Ken Clark and his assistant Jan Shepard who figure it out and come up with a plan to destroy the giant leeches.What can I say the cinematography is atrocious, no direction, performances on the high school level. And those leeches were ug-ly.Leo Gordon should have been ashamed of himself.