Attack of the Crab Monsters
1957 Directed by Roger Corman
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From the depths of the sea... a tidal wave of terror!
A group of scientists travel to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, only to get stranded when their airplane explodes. The team soon discovers that the island has been taken over by crabs that have mutated into enormous, intelligent monsters. To add to their problems, the island is slowly sinking into the ocean. Will any of them manage to escape?
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Seafood goes wild and seeks revenge over humanity in this Roger Corman directed creature-feature, which also boasts the most sarcastic psychic-crab in film history.
The characters spend their time making baffling decisions and ultimately dying. There's some gratuitous use of nuclear detonation stock footage and lots of unconvincing puppets. Characters also seem to insist on running around with incredibly large crab claws, like over-excited tourists in some magical Las Vegas food buffet.
The sarcastic crab is the highlight here though, no doubt.
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Corny b-movie deliciousness.
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Seafood goes wild and seeks revenge over humanity in this Roger Corman directed creature-feature, which also boasts the most sarcastic psychic-crab in film history.
The characters spend their time making baffling decisions and ultimately dying. There's some gratuitous use of nuclear detonation stock footage and lots of unconvincing puppets. Characters also seem to insist on running around with incredibly large crab claws, like over-excited tourists in some magical Las Vegas food buffet.
The sarcastic crab is the highlight here though, no doubt.
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Even for a B-movie this strains the mind.
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Nothing I can say here will make you see this. The coverart is enough to know what your getting into. Corman.... 50's.... giant crabs.... ridiculous plot..... I've said enough.
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B Movie trash at its best
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Every bit as awful as the title would suggest. Not even classically B-Movie silly, just really really boring. And crap. Pure utter crap.
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Giant nuclear mutant crabs (or crab...I don't know) attack some rubbish scientists and sailors on a Pacific atoll.
That's it.And yet because Roger Corman often tries to have ideas above the film's station, that's not exactly it.
Oh no, we also have deep philosophical musings. Most of them from the Crabs!
Yes, that's right...from the Crabs.
Because as well as eating the juicy fleshy parts of any silly humans they grab, the Crabs also absorb their 'minds' and can 'speak' to the other humans via telepathy! Oh yeah!This silly idea adds much silly fun of course but it also means we have mutant crab monsters that burble tedious monologues on the mind of Man. zzzzzzz.
Thankfully away from…
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A fun monster movie from Roger Corman, by no means a classic of the time but a sign of the time and enjoyable enough
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Atomic age Pacific atoll experimentation radiation fallout thrills! Science expedition suspense, shock and peril! Seismic upsets, earthquakes, pitfalls and calamities of nature delivered cheaply and quickly! Mysterious ghost voices from the caverns and callous colossal crustacean mutants with mindpowers! Roger Corman-spawned monster movie B-kicks from the golden age of schlock sci-fi crab yeah!