It seems that the victims become part of the crab (who likes amputating heads) and now they use their own voices to lure other victims to their death (like the song “Misery Loves Company!”). Lured by the voice to the newly created pit, some scientists meet their doom. Also, members of the team hear a voice identifying itself as McLean and begging for help. Soon afterwards Karl and Jim discover a fifty-foot-deep cave-in on the trail they had taken to the beach. When Quinlan and his crew leave to fly back to their base, their plane explodes on takeoff and kills the crew.
They are to study the effects of atomic fallout from nearby H-bomb tests and what happened to the other team of research scientists led by McLean, who left an unfinished curious journal about the two mutant giant crabs in their encampment but vanished without a trace during a storm. Cutting), who will try to determine what’s happening to the soil French botanist Jules Deveroux (Mel Welles), who will examine the plant life for radiation poisoning navy demolition experts Ron Fellows (Beech Dickerson) and Sam Sommers (Tony Miller) and electronics specialist Hank Chapman. Karl Weigand (Leslie Bradley) the others are the romantically linked biologists Dale Drewer (Richard Garland) and Martha Hunter (Pamela Duncan), as he works on land animals while she works on sea life geologist Dr. Navy seaplane, to a remote Pacific atoll that is slowly crumbling into the sea and has only seagulls and crabs, a team of brilliant scientists led by nuclear physicist Dr. Griffith, and an eerie score by Ronald Stein aids its cause to be scary and set an ominous mood.Įnsign Quinlan (Ed Nelson) delivers by a U.S. The black-and-white film had suspense or action in every scene as written by Charles B. Attack of the Crab Monsters cost $70,000 to produce and took in over $1 million at the box-office, and has since become a minor cult film. Valentine’s Day Massacre”/”The Tomb of Ligeia”/”Tower of London”) produced and directed this leaden, hokey and poorly acted second-rate tongue-in-cheek atomic radiation monsters gone amok horror film, which is further done in by how silly the giant land crabs look (it was made out of Styrofoam and the entire front of the mutant giant crab was a stiff caricature of the human face) even though the premise of mind assimilation is rather ingenious and might even be scientifically possible.
James Carson), Tony Miller (Sam Sommers), Beech Dickerson (Ron Fellows), Ed Nelson (Ensign Quinlan) Runtime: 62 MPAA Rating: NR producers: Roger Corman/Charles B. Karl Weigand), Mel Welles (Jules Deveroux), Richard H. Griffith cinematographer: Floyd Crosby editor: Charles Gross music: Ronald Stein cast: Richard Garland (Dale Drewer), Pamela Duncan (Martha Hunter), Russell Johnson (Hank Chapman), Leslie Bradley (Dr. (director: Roger Corman screenwriter: Charles B.