Two sailors come along as guards, but another is mysteriously decapitated in the surf, and the seaplane that brought them explodes on takeoff. A previous team has simply disappeared, leaving only a journal with incomplete entries. The show is a ‘Los Altos Production’ - did Corman have a house on Los Altos Place, just South of the Hollywood Bowl?Ī nuclear survey team arrives at a small island to study the downwind effects of the Elugelab Thermonuclear Test, but as soon as they hit the beach things go wrong. The Corman-Griffith story seems fashioned from what could be filmed really fast in 1) Bronson Caverns, 2) Leo Carrillo State Beach, and around what looks like a private residence in the Hollywood Hills. Dick may have admired some of the conceptual twists here. Griffith stacked the screenplay with original ideas. It’s not just crabs crawling around eating people Charles B. Roger Corman’s first two American-International sci-fi efforts followed the end-of-the-world and alien invasion playbooks, but this dynamite Allied Artists double bill with Not of This Earth inspires the pulp imagination. The show fascinates from both a sci-fi and a production point of view. Ackerman clocked nearly a hundred sci-fi and fantasy releases in that boom year, and even TV’s Beaver Cleaver took his pal to the movies to see outrageous monster movies. It’s always been a joke title emblematic of the monster-crazy year of 1957. It’s one thing to discuss 2001 or Solaris with the general public, but a learned essay about Attack of the Crab Monsters is a tougher sell. We weren’t disappointed, as I explain in my non-technical quality assessment below.Įverything you didn’t necessarily need to know about Attack of the Crab Monsters. Just a few weeks ago Shout! Factory announced that a new Blu-ray would be available from their website only, and we jumped at the offer. The unambiguously titled Attack of the Crab Monsters came out on a so-so DVD in 2010, widescreen but a little soft and dull. Donations to Deprived CineSavant Charities Inc.
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All the Allied Artists shows were on Chiller Theater channel 11, and from a hundred miles away our TV antenna resolved KTTV as ugly NTSC snow. I know it’s tragic, but while lucky ’50s kids just a couple of years older than me saw the marvelously audacious Attack of the Crab Monsters new at the bijou, I had to wait until I was fifty years old. Griffith, Lindsley Parsons Jr., Beach Dickerson, Ed Nelson Griffith, Maitland Stuart.Īssistants of all stripes: Maurice Vaccarino, Charles B. Starring: Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Leslie Bradley, Mel Welles, Richard Cutting, Beach Dickerson, Tony Miller, Ed Nelson, Charles B. We atom-age crustaceans are made of electric anti-matter - it’s incredible! Our telepathy is the best telepathy ever - everybody says so! It is what it is!” The new Blu-ray will charm fans seeking prime ‘fifties monster nirvana.ġ957 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 62 min. This note just arrived from Donald J.’s Seafood Emporium: “You puny, dunderheaded humans, don’t let the campy title fool you! Soon you will be ‘absorbed’ into our crabby super-mentalities, heh heh heh. Roger Corman began his boom year of 1957 with a marvelous bit of ‘way-out’ sci-fi - a ‘Tidal Wave of Terror’ no less.
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