The Flesh Eaters (1964) on Netflix
A storm forces actress Laura Winters, her assistant Jan Letterman, and pilot Grant Murdoch onto a small island, where marine biologist Peter Bartell studies a glowing microbe that devours flesh.
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Plot summary
Jan Letterman works as personal assistant to Laura Winters, a wealthy actress whose career is behind her. Jan hires Grant Murdoch, a pilot, to fly them from New York to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and a storm puts the plane down on a small island instead. There a marine biologist, Peter Bartell, lives in seclusion, and strange skeletons wash ashore, first human and then fish. The water around the island holds a glowing microbe that eats flesh. A beatnik, Omar, is shipwrecked on the shore and joins them, and when the plane drifts out to sea, the group is left on the island with the organisms.
Cast
- Christopher Drakeas Matt
- Darby Nelsonas Jim
- Rita Floydas Radio Operator
- Warren Houstonas Cab Driver(scenes deleted)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Flesh Eaters (1964)
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- George A. Romero began work in 1967 on a horror film provisionally called Night of the Flesh Eaters; to avoid confusion with The Flesh Eaters, distributor The Walter Reade Organization had the title changed to Night of the Living Dead.
- Writer-producer Arnold Drake said director Jack Curtis's wife won $72,000 on the television quiz show High Low, and that part of the money was used to finish The Flesh Eaters.
- While filming on location at Montauk, New York, a real hurricane destroyed the sets and equipment; production was delayed a year and the cost rose from $60,000 to $105,000.
- The Flesh Eaters contains violence much more graphic and extreme than many films of its time, making it one of the first ever gore films.
- The 1968 re-release of The Flesh Eaters removed a flashback sequence showing the original Nazi human experiments with the flesh eaters.
- Comic book writer Arnold Drake storyboarded The Flesh Eaters before filming, so every shot has the careful, formalized composition of a well-drawn comic strip.
