The Flesh Eaters (1964)
- Director(s):
- Jack Curtis
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of The Flesh Eaters
This thoroughly weird but truly inspired monster flick is one of the earliest gore films to splatter across drive-in screens in the years prior to Herschell Gordon Lewis' notorious Blood Trilogy. The plot finds a besotted movie star (Rita Morley) and her entourage trapped on an island surrounded by aquatic flesh-munching amoebas (represented by scratches on the film emulsion) created by mad scientist Peter Bartell (Martin Kosleck). These sparkly little death-blobs make mincemeat of most of the cast, including a dorky beatnik (Ray Tudor) who ingests a few of the little buggers in his drink -- leading to an agonizingly fatal case of indigestion. Good photography and well-designed makeup effects make the most of a shoestring budget. Film editor Radley Metzger found his own way as the director of numerous soft-porn films in the '60s and '70s. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 87 mins
Complete Cast of The Flesh Eaters
- Martin Kosleck - Peter Bartell
- Byron Sanders - Grant Murdock
- Barbara Wilkin - Jan Letterman
- Rita Morley - Laura Winters
- Ray Tudor - Omar
- Director(s):
- Jack Curtis
- Writer(s):
- Arnold Drake
- Producer(s):
- Jack Curtis, Arnold Drake, Terry Curtis
- Categories:
- Horror
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