The Flesh Eaters (1964)

[Scott]

THE FLESH EATERS (1964) - Picked this up from Netflix as one of those Saturday Movie Matinee films of my youth that I had always wanted to see again. What I remember most about the film was the flesh eating organisms in the ocean, the beatnik on the raft, the nazi scientist, and the "special effects". Watching it again I realize just how bloody the film was for the time. Upon my fresh viewing of this film I found out that it was made on the beaches of Long Island (except for the cliff footage). The films special effects were actually scratched onto the surface of the film. It's not a great film, but a unique and slightly disturbing film that I was finally able to view again tonight after 30 years. The DVD also has footage that was removed from the film.

[Just Plain Horse]

This is one of the few "gorey" movies I'm actually curious to see. I love that caption at the bottom of the poster: "Oh, I'm a deviate, I guess I'll not go see that... maybe I'll see that movie about those nice children from Midwich, or the new film by Stanley Kubrick... Dr. something or other..."

[Andrew]

The new DVD is just beautiful.  What also surprised me is how gory parts of the film are.  The one part when the hero gets some of the flesh eaters on him and has to cut pieces of his leg out with a knife is pretty graphic.  Granted, the injury leaves him none the worse for wear.  He has no problem strolling along with the movie star's administrative assistant that he hooks up with.

Still, they are killed by exposure to human blood?  How in the world?

[Scott]

Yea, this film is really different and worth a good look if you haven't seen it before.