A stage adaptation of the original was also performed at The Village Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia in February 2020. It was directed by Brett Kelly and written by Jeff O'Brien. It is important to add, that actress Yvette Vickers appeared as the Playmate centerfold in the July 1959 issue of Playboy magazine, several months prior to the film's release.Īttack of the Giant Leeches holds a 70% approval rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews the average rating is 5.1/10. Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, calling it a "ludicrous hybrid of white trash and monster genres".Ī remake of the film was made on July 7, 2008. During filming, Gene Corman came down with pneumonia and wound up in the hospital. The film was shot over eight days, including outdoor sequences at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden. A character in the film speculates that the leeches have been mutated to giant size by atomic radiation from nearby Cape Canaveral. The movie was one of a spate of "creature features" produced during the 1950s in response to cold war fears. Giant Leech - Blown up by dynamite explosion by Steve Benton - Yes.Giant Leech - Stabbed with knife by Steve Benton - Yes.Old Sam Peters - Gradually drained of blood by Giant Leeches - Yes.Porky Reed - Gradually drained of blood by Giant Leeches - Yes.Dave Walker - Hung into rope noose by Himself - Yes - Suicide.Liz Walker - Gradually drained of blood by Giant Leeches - Yes.Cal Moulton - Gradually drained of blood by Giant Leeches - Yes.Lem Sawyer - Partially drained of blood by Giant Leeches - Partially. List of deaths in the film, Attack of the Giant Leeches The creatures are destroyed when Steve, Doc and several state troopers blow up their underwater cavern using dynamite. Aided by his girlfriend, Nan Grayson (Sheppard), and her father, Doc Grayson, Benton discovers the leeches' underwater cavern. Two of the first victims of the leeches are local vixen Liz Walker (Vickers), who has been cheating on her husband (Bruno VeSota), and Liz's latest paramour. Game warden Steve Benton (Clark) sets out to investigate their disappearance. They begin dragging locals down to their cave, where they slowly feed on them, draining their victims of blood. In the Florida Everglades, a pair of larger-than-human, intelligent leeches live in an underwater cave.
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