Attack of the Crab Monsters

Infobox Film
name = Attack of the Crab Monsters


caption = Original movie advertisement from 1957
director = Roger Corman
producer = Roger Corman
writer = Charles B. Griffith
starring = Richard Garland
Pamela Duncan
Russell Johnson
music = Ronald Stein
cinematography = Floyd Crosby
editing = Charles Gross
distributor = Allied Artists
released = February 10, 1957
runtime = 62 min
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language = English
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amg_id = 1:84109
imdb_id = 0050147

"Attack Of The Crab Monsters" is a 1957, American, black-and-white, science fiction film, written by Charles B. Griffith and produced and directed by Roger Corman via Los Altos Productions, on contract for distribution by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. The plot follows a scientific expedition trapped on a remote island inhabited by atomically mutated giant crabs. It was distributed as the main feature on a programmed double bill with "Not of This Earth"

Plot

A group of scientists land on a remote island in the Pacific to search for a previous expedition that disappeared and to continue research about the effects of radiation from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests on the island's plant and sea life. They learn to their horror that the earlier group of scientists have been eaten by mutated giant crabs that have gained intelligence by absorbing the minds of their victims. Members of the current expedition are systematically attacked and killed by the crabs, which are invulnerable to most weaponry because of the mutation in their cell structure. Finally, they discover the crabs are the cause of the earthquakes and landslides that are destroying the island. As the remaining expedition members struggle to survive on the ever-shrinking island, they must also find a way to stop the crabs before they reproduce and invade the oceans of the world.

Cast

References

* Wingrove, David. Science Fiction Film Source Book (Longman Group Limited, 1985)
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ee also

*The Macra Terror - A Doctor Who serial that follows a similar plot.

External links

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* [http://www.eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/attack_crab_monsters.htm Extended movie review] at Eccentric-cinema.com