Attack of the Giant Leeches [PG]

In a Louisiana bayou game reserve, mysterious things have been happening. A body is found with strange sucker wounds all over it. Shortly after two more people go missing in the swamp, their bodies unrecovered. When two more people disappear, it falls to a wildlife marshal to get to the bottom of the mystery before anyone else goes missing or the locals take matters into their own hands. 

Attack of the Giant Leeches, it sounds pretty much as bad and B-list as it is. Whilst it’s a slight sight better than Creature From the Haunted Sea, this movie is a Jaws-esque epic fail in delivering any sort of terror or fear. The story is poor, the performances are mediocre, generic, and dull, and there really is no redeeming feature in the thing at all. It’s not even bad enough to be funny; it’s just dull. 

In a Louisiana bayou game reserve, mysterious things have been happening. A body is found with strange sucker wounds all over it. Shortly after two more people go missing in the swamp, their bodies unrecovered. When two more people disappear, it falls to a wildlife marshal to get to the bottom of the mystery before anyone else goes missing or the locals take matters into their own hands. 

Best-case scenario, this movie was made on a dare! It probably had a budget of nothing and took a leaf out of Ed Wood’s book by filming on location without a permit (well maybe not that bad, but still). We’ve seen in later cinematic history that ‘horror’ movies can be made about killer tomatoes so, to give credit where credit is due, at least this flick had a reasonably scary monster. I mean, leeches aren’t nice things that exist on this planet: they’re slimy, latch onto you and can’t be pulled off, and they suck blood. Akin to aquatic vampires, these things are pretty nasty so to have a swamp infested with ones that have (or have not) been exposed to radiation or something, resulting in gigantism, can be seen as potentially scary. 

But, more or less, this movie is pretty crap with a range of acting varying from dull to mild to wooden, a flimsy and predictable plotline, and an ending that just wraps things up quickly and absent-mindedly. I can’t really think of anything further to say. 

Starring Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmett, Tyler McVey, Bruno VeSota, Gene Roth, Dan White, and George Cisar, Attack of the Giant Leeches is a pretty mild and generic B-grade horror movie filled with action, drama, romance, and dynamite. One could appreciate this movie if was so obviously bad and sincere, or even have some characters that you could relate to, but ultimately there is just nothing about this movie that grabs you. It’s just blah! Generic and blah!