So Bad It's Good...
I recently rewatched this childhood favorite if mine and I think I like it even more now! This is actually one of the BETTER of the B&W sci-fi/horror films of the late 50's- early 60's. Produced by Roger Corman on what is obviously a 'shoestring' budget, this was one of the more effective of these types of films. The acting was actually ABOVE the 'Junior-High-School-Play' level of most of these types of movies and the sets were quite convincing as well. Having visited the Florida Everglades and neighboring swamps myself, I think the filmmakers did an excellent job of recreating these locations in a Hollywood studio. The underwater scenes were quite convincing and rather well filmed although the 'giant leeches' themselves were obviously 'stunt-divers' in rather fake looking 'leech' costumes, I cannot not help but feel that these men were taking a great risk to thier own personal safety to film these scenes! ( try to imagine swimming around underwater with SCUBA gear and wrapped inside a great big silly looking 'leech costume' that looks like it is made out of trash-bags with teeth and stuff glued to it!)...
I found it quite amusing that the 'giant leeches' kept the hot looking chick ALIVE in thier underwater cave so that they could keep giving her 'hickeys'...
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Friday, May 25, 2007 1:33 AM
I saw this movie a few years ago on Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I agree with you, it was so funny, even without the hilarious commentary from the robots, I was thinking, I wonder how they swim in those costumes, I'm sure back then they didn't think as much about safety as they do now. This was definately worth watching just for the campiness and the really bad costumes. Oh and of course the "hot chick" covered in hickeys...lol.