Attack of the Crab Monsters (1956)

Directed by

Roger Corman

Genre

horror film, independent film, science fiction film, teen film, monster film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 02m

Rated

18

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 85 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Scientists go to a remote island to find out what happened to a previous expedition. They discover giant mutant crabs that ate the first group and absorbed their memories.

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What happens

Attack of the Crab Monsters is a 1957 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced and directed by Roger Corman (via his Los Altos Productions), that stars Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, and Russell Johnson. The film was distributed by Allied Artists as a double feature showing with Corman's Not of This Earth. The film concerns a second scientific expedition that is sent to a remote Pacific island to discover what happened to the scientists of the first. Unknown to them when they arrive, the island is inhabited by a pair of radiation-mutated giant crabs that not only consumed the members of the first expedition, but absorbed their minds, and now plan to reproduce their kind in numbers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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