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The Flesh Eaters

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Downtrodden pilot Grant Murdoch (Byron Sanders) agrees to fly actress Laura Winters (Rita Morley) and her assistant, Jan Letterman (Barbara Wilkin), to Provincetown after she offers him three times the usual stipend. But things take a turn for the worse when he is forced to land on an uncharted island in Long Island Sound. Joined by a beatnik (Ray Tudor) who shows up on a raft, they soon encounter a crazy German scientist (Martin Kosleck) engaged in bizarre experiments to dissolve human flesh.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews A lovable but bad mad scientist B-film. Rated: C- Mar 18, 2009 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Staph is no joke, people Rated: 3/5 Nov 1, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Aug 20, 2005 Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Do you need to know anything more than the title? Rated: 2/5 Nov 5, 2002 Full Review Read all reviews

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That boi C i didn’t like how they killed omar cuz he was my favorite character f*ck that german piece of sh*t Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/07/25 Full Review Blobbo X Blobbo still might have packet of "Instant Blood" ("Your only protection against the Flesh Eaters!") handed out at box office in 1964, laying around somewhere. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/04/23 Full Review Heime S Taken for its timeframe, it's not that terrible as a B science fiction movie. I saw it as a kid in the 70s when these kind of shows were shown every Saturday and I freaked out.😂😂 that was the timeframe when they were showing Godzilla movies, but the scene where the beatnik Omar dies was very traumatic to an 11 year old! Campy and goofy by modern standards, and the sci-fi special effects cannot compare obviously. If only they allowed nudity back, then… Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/11/22 Full Review Audience Member A small group of people get stuck on an island with flesh eating bacteria, and a mad scientist. Beatnik era sci-fi, in musical score and linguistic delivery style. Especially after Omar (Ray Tudor) arrives on the scene. Boring Americana hero type (Byron Sanders) has all the answers as usual, and the stereotypical damsel in distress (Barbara Wilkin) and older worn out starlet's (Rita Morley) singular motivation is to have relations with said boring hero, more than saving their own lives. The Villain (Martin Kosleck) is heavily German accented, and can't be trusted right away, simply for being German, I guess. (turns out he's actually a WWII Nazi) At least Barbara Wilkin looks great in her bathing suit. Summary: This 60s era flick is mainly a snoozefest. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Honestly, a good movie for the time period. The nazi scene (supposedly added after 1964, but from 1962) was pretty bad and the director was aweful -- just that. The acting isn't as stiff as people are making it out to be, just the recitation of lines, almost monotone half the time, otherwise reaction shots and deliberate action seems fairly ahead of its time. Yes, the monster was cheezy and the plot has a major hole (mainly, why did the marine biologist care about the three when they arrived? He didn't need them for what he claimed to later.) Whatever, after watching Under The Skin, I was sadly impressed by this early attempt at smart horror. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member This was a very average low budget monster flick, but I was very interested to realize that it was written by Arnold Drake, who gave us the old Doom Patrol characters from DC Comics, which sort of felt appropriate, given the over the top action here. Rental? Maybe? Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Downtrodden pilot Grant Murdoch (Byron Sanders) agrees to fly actress Laura Winters (Rita Morley) and her assistant, Jan Letterman (Barbara Wilkin), to Provincetown after she offers him three times the usual stipend. But things take a turn for the worse when he is forced to land on an uncharted island in Long Island Sound. Joined by a beatnik (Ray Tudor) who shows up on a raft, they soon encounter a crazy German scientist (Martin Kosleck) engaged in bizarre experiments to dissolve human flesh.
Director
Jack Curtis
Producer
Jack Curtis, Arnold Drake, Terry Curtis
Screenwriter
Arnold Drake
Production Co
Vulcan Productions Inc.
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 11, 2017
Runtime
1h 32m
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