NR, 62 min.
Director: Roger Corman
Writer: Charles B. Griffith
Starring: Richard Garland,
Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley, Mel Welles, Richard Cutting,
Beach Dickerson, Tony Miller
You know you are a film
fanatic when you just can’t wait for the fake film festival you created just so
you have an excuse to see bad b-movies like Roger Corman’s “Attack of the Crab
Monsters”. Right out of the nuclear age of horror flicks that permeated the late
50s, “Attack of the Crab Monsters” is in many ways a wonderful piece of schlock
even though it really isn’t any good.
So, a bunch of scientists
disappear from an island that was dowsed in nuclear radiation from the U.S.
Government’s tests of the atomic bomb. Another set of scientists is sent out to
continue their work and hopefully discover what happened to the first crew. I
think the best part of this whole movie is that within the first five minutes
of arriving on the island one of the military grunts is beheaded by something
in the water along the shoreline. Beheaded! And everyone is just like, “Well
shucks, isn’t that some bad luck for that guy. Too bad.” Gee, that couldn’t
have anything to do with what happened to the previous crew, could it?
In typical b-movie fashion,
Corman keeps his budget down by using noises and shadows to evoke the monsters
for most of the movie. The crab monsters, once they’re revealed look kind of
good. Sure they don’t actually move and although there are supposedly several
of these crab creatures, only one is ever seen at a time. It makes it a little
easier on Corman to get the concepts across to have the crabs take on the brainpower
of the people who have become their victims. No effort is made to explain how
the crabs can recreate the victims’ speech, but that probably for the better.
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