{"id":128,"date":"2006-04-01T13:29:01","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T20:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=128"},"modified":"2021-02-05T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T22:14:38","slug":"attack-of-the-giant-leeches-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m goin&#8217; out. Maybe I&#8217;ll be back, and maybe I won&#8217;t!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster-195x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster-666x1024.png 666w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster-83x128.png 83w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster-176x270.png 176w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Poster.png 721w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nGiant mutant leeches emerge from the swamps of Florida and imprison the local townspeople in their underwater cave.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep South<\/li>\n<li>Mutant Monsters<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary points out, this &#8220;sweaty sci-fi&#8221; Roger Corman production &#8212; taking place in a &#8220;southern swamp where super-intelligent giant leeches snatch up unlucky passersby, hang them in their camp lair, still alive, and drain their blood when thirsty&#8221; &#8212; is &#8220;like an early Russ Meyer potboiler (<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51229\"><em>Lorna<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51256\"><em>Mud Honey<\/em><\/a>) with horror elements.&#8221; He points out that &#8220;luscious Yvette Vickers&#8221; is &#8220;sex personified as a trampy married woman&#8221; and the film is &#8220;worth seeing for her alone&#8221;, but it &#8220;has other things going for it as well&#8221;. He argues that while it is a bit gruesome, it&#8217;s also gritty, enjoyably lurid, and creepy&#8221;, and is directed with &#8220;flair&#8221; by Bernard Kowalski. While the production values are low (of course) and the leech costumes ridiculous, this remains an enjoyably campy, &#8220;unfairly neglected&#8221; B-movie with a &#8220;devoted following&#8221; and is worth a one-time look.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yvette Vickers as the sexy backwoods trophy wife<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers-1024x787.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"492\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers-1024x787.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers-768x591.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers-351x270.png 351w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/Attack-Giant-Leeches-Vickers.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply for its status as a cult &#8220;bad movie&#8221; favorite.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0053611\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifimoviepage.com\/attackof.html\">Sci-Fi Movie Page Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m goin&#8217; out. Maybe I&#8217;ll be back, and maybe I won&#8217;t!&#8221; Synopsis: Giant mutant leeches emerge from the swamps of Florida and imprison the local townspeople in their underwater cave. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Deep South Mutant Monsters Science Fiction Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary points out, this &#8220;sweaty sci-fi&#8221; Roger Corman production &#8212; taking place in a &#8220;southern swamp where super-intelligent giant leeches snatch up unlucky passersby, hang them in their camp lair, still alive, and drain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=128\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68975,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/68975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}