Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) on Netflix
People vanish near a deep swamp in the Florida Everglades, and a fisherman dies there. Game warden Steve Benton investigates while local authorities blame an alligator.
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Plot summary
Something in a deep swamp in the Florida Everglades is taking people. A local fisherman dies there violently, and the authorities put the death down to an alligator. Steve Benton, the game warden, looks into it anyway. Days later, Liz Walker and Cal Moulton, who are carrying on an affair behind her husband Dave's back, go missing near the same water. Dave is blamed for the pair of them, and the police do not believe what he tells them. Two more local men vanish, and search parties comb the area without finding any bodies. Steve keeps working the disappearances with his girlfriend Nan Greyson and her father, Doc Greyson.
Cast
- Michael Emmetas Cal Moulton
- Guy Buccolaas Giant Leech (uncredited)
- Walter Kelleyas Mike (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Producers Roger and Gene Corman begged special effects artist Paul Blaisdell to create the leech costumes, but he said the effects budget would not have covered even the materials; actor Ed Nelson and Gene Corman's wife designed them instead, from stitched black raincoats or plastic garbage bags, depending on the source.
- The film was shot over eight days, including outdoor sequences at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and during filming Gene Corman came down with pneumonia and wound up in the hospital.
- In July 1992 Attack of the Giant Leeches was featured as a fourth-season episode of the film-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
