While investigating the disappearance of researchers who had been looking into atomic activity in the Pacific, a group of scientists become marooned on an island. Home Video Distributor: Shout Factory Exclusive Sure, it looks completely realistic - with a facial expression and everything else that goes along with mutated monsters - but the working of the dead scientist’s voice and their memories as they call out to the survivors works to create some great moments of fear and fun!Īttack of the Crab Monsters is only available through Shout! Factory’s online store. This fifteen-foot Atomic Age puppet - hysterical and haunting at the same time - is operated by Peyton’s Place Ed Nelson and, while the script called for two crabs, there was only one which constantly traversed back and forth across the island, picking off the scientists left and right.
These crabs are on the prowl and it is world dominance that they are after because - once they devour their prey - they absorb their science-founded minds AND their voices (you know, to lure other scientists their way) and it is off the island they want. Cutting), biologist Jules Deveroux ( Mel Welles), Martha Hunter ( Pamela Duncan), and Dale Drewer ( Richard Garland) - muse about the possibilities of sea serpents and other weird anomalies able to rip someone’s head off, handyman Hank Chapman ( Russell Johnson, you know him as "The Professor" on Gilligan’s Island) attempts to find a rationale explanation for all the tremors they are experiencing on the island.Īnd it all has to do with a giant pair of telepathic crabs products of the atomic experiments that have been ravishing the islands. Karl Weigand ( Leslie Bradley), geologist James Carson ( Richard H. Something is separating them from the outside world! They are more alone than they ever dare ask - especially after their seaplane explodes and their attempts to communicate with others is completely rattled by a lightning storm. The joke here is that the man who gets decapitated is actually the film’s screenwriter Charles Griffith (who also wrote Death Race 2000 and was a frequent Corman collaborator) and, of course, it is an omen of things to come for this group of scientists who, arriving on an unnamed Pacific Island, have come in search of the first expedition that have gone missing. Produced and directed by Roger Corman, Attack of the Crab Monsters is a cult classic, atomically-mutated 63-minute blast through Z-grade territory and it begins with an edge of seat sequence in which a sailor, thrown overboard from a speeding raft, is decapitated by something HUGE just below the surface. "Suspense! Action! And GIANT telepathic crabs! What more could you ask for in a B-movie?!?!"
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