Anybody who thinks that Plan 9 is the worst movie ever made has not seen The Flesh Eaters . Don't get me wrong... I LOVED this movie! What has to be the most ridiculous plot and story line in the history of motion pictures is saved by (for it's time) some of the most inventive and shocking gore effects ever seen and (again, for it's time), a fair amount of beautiful female flesh. When a small plane is forced to land on a seemingly deserted Pacific island do to engine trouble and an approaching storm, it's occupants, an alcoholic and aging Hollywood starlet, her secretary and the rugged pilot, are greeted by a sinister German 'marine biologist' who is studying something in the water... it turns out that this 'something' is a 'microbial bacteria' that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye and picked up with tweezers! These 'microbes' also have the nasty habit of eating any animal (or human) flesh they come in contact with, leaving only clean skeletons remaining... When our castaways discover an intact but stripped-clean-of-any-flesh skeleton on the beach the German scientist says "It must have been sharks..." ... yeah, right... When exposed to electrocution these creatures appear to die... only to come back to life and morph into a giant one-eyed monster! Leading up to the infamous 'Color-Scene' in this otherwise B&W movie, when our hero learns that the only way to kill this creature is to inject it in the eye with human blood! If all of this sounds ridiculous, trust me, it IS! Still, for hard core horror fans like me this movie is a lot of fun! Some of the very earliest gore-effects ever put on film and some rather attractive women exposising as much skin as possible for it's day make this one a fun ride... recomended for those who might like this sort of thing...
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