The Giant Leeches is cheapo delight of a monster movie. It's loaded with bristling memorable characters, not the least of which is the vivacious Yvette Vickers. But that's saying a lot. The plot of this movie is dead simple. Giant man-sized leeches appear in the bayous and begin to abduct and kill the local population. While this is going on a woman cheats on her jealous husband and a local warden tries to date while fighting off monsters in his spare time.
I would love to see a really good copy of this movie as despite owning it several times I have yet to run across a print which wasn't muddy and too dark. While the script is minimal this movie is filled with some good character acting and even the leads are above what you'd expect in a production this small and cheap. So on the human front this movie out performs.
But famously it's in the area of monsters that it falls short. The monster leeches are difficult to decode as the movie tumbles along and at no point is any of them larger than the men who operate the cheap-jack costumes. I only wish there had been a leech as giant as the one on the poster -- that's scary stuff.
This one is fun for what it is, a low to no budget offering filled with some fun lines delivered by folks who know their craft, at least a little bit.
And did I mention Yvette Vickers?
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