After local-moonshine swilling trapper Lem Sawyer sees a giant creature, people start disappearing....
Run Time
62 min
Genre
Horror, Sci-Fi
Language
English
Keyword
Swamp, Monster, B Horror, Low Budget Film, Animal Attack
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
Mono
Colour
Black and White
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Creature Film, Natural Horror
Themes
Mutants
Tones
Creepy, Lurid
Has Detailed Data (New)
1, 2, 3
Wikipedia Text
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.
Release Date
01 October 1959
Couple Profile
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, She Demons of the Swamp, and War of the Giant Leeches.[1]
In July 1992, Attack of the Giant Leeches was featured as a fourth-season episode of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Attack of the Giant Leeches was also featured on the nationally-syndicated horror host television show Cinema Insomnia.[2] It was also featured in episode two of season five of "Shilling Shockers", a New England based television show that airs old horror movies, and often makes mockery of them.[3]
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