Attack
of the Giant Leeches (1959) In
the Florida Everglades, a
colony of larger-than-human-size, intelligent leeches is living in an underwater
cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them
prisoner and slowly drain them of blood. One of the first people to be so taken
is the local vixen, Liz Walker, played by Yvette Vickers . After a couple of
gratuitous displays of flesh (Yvette appeared as the centerfold in the July,
1959 issue of Playboy.), and some running around on her husband (Bruno VeSota),
Liz finds herself a prisoner of the leeches along with her current paramour.
Game warden Steve Benton (Ken Clark) sets out to investigate their
disappearance. Aided by his girlfriend Nan Grayson (Jan Sheppard) and her
father, Doc Grayson, he discovers the cavern. The giant leeches are
unrealistically portrayed by men in rubber suits, but they do provide suitably
disgusting scenes when attacking their victims. The monsters are finally
destroyed when Steve, Doc, and some state troopers blow up the cavern with
dynamite.
