Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.
Richard H. Cutting
- Dr. James Carson
- (as Richard Cutting)
Beach Dickerson
- Seaman Ron Fellows
- (as Beech Dickerson)
Charles B. Griffith
- Seaman Tate
- (uncredited)
Maitland Stuart
- Seaman Mac
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaEd Nelson "played" the crab monster with Beach Dickerson operating the monster's claws.
- GoofsWheels and legs under the giant crabs.
- Quotes
Martha Hunter: Once upon a time, there was a mountain.
Dale Drewer: Hm?
Martha Hunter: Yesterday, when we came to this island, there was a mountain out there. Today there's no mountain.
- Alternate versionsThis was one of a group of films for which Allied Artists prepared a modified version for U.S. 16mm television syndication prints. These prints started off with a lengthy clip from the movie and added an introductory crawl. This extra padding brought the film's running time up to approximately 70 minutes.
- ConnectionsEdited into FrightMare Theater: Attack of the Crab Monsters (2017)
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Any movie that passes off a 1950s' home in the Hollywood Hills as a research center located atop a shrinking Pacific atoll, a well-foliaged hillside as a fresh landslide, Griffith Park's Bronson Caves as a passage to the sea, a dyed-blonde Mel Welles as a "French" scientist, and a rolling and flopping papier-mache model with humanesque eyes as a terrifying monster crab is MY kind of movie! Artistically, probably one of Corman's worst, this still is great FUN. Like many other "bad" horror movies of the fifties, I can watch it over again and again! Unfortunately, though, the only print that seems to be available--either on VHS or DVD--is not a very good one. Enjoy! (NOTE: An earlier reviewer indicated that Beverly Garland is in this film; she is not.)
- MPOliphant
- Mar 28, 2004
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- Also known as
- El ataque de los cangrejos gigantes
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- Budget
- $70,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1(original ratio)
- 1.78 : 1
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