10 Gloriously Schlocky 1950s B Movies You Have To See
2. Attack Of The Giant Leeches
When you're looking for a bad B-movie, you can't go wrong with one whose title features the phrase "Attack of the Giant." Audiences have seen giant crabs, giant grasshoppers, giant gila monsters, giant women, and now it was time for giant leeches. Sure, whatever.
Just based on the premise and other B-movies at this time, you can probably predict the entire arc of this one already. A bunch of giant leeches live in an underwater cave, and every once in a while they come up to grab humans and drain them of blood. A girl named Liz is cheating on her husband, Dave, and at the exact moment he catches her with her new boyfriend, leeches come and drag them both underneath. Now everyone thinks Dave killed them, and some idiot named Steve is sent to investigate the leeches story.
The humans being held prisoner and getting drained of blood actually borders on being kind of effective, but too bad every single character in the movie is awful and the leeches obviously don't look good. In fact, the budget appears to be so low that despite the title, there are really only two leeches. Not much of an attack, huh? This is a movie that both delivers bad monster effects and bad relationship drama. It's got everything!