10 WTF Animal Horror Movies You Won't Believe Exist

On the upside Leeches! turns a few horror tropes on their head focusing not on scantily clad young women but near-naked young men which makes a refreshing change of pace for us men-fancying horror fans. On the downside, however, the main antagonists are – as the title suggests – leeches.

The brainchild of David DeCoteau – noted director of Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper – the film follows a steroid-popping, speedo-clad college swim team who take a trip to a lake and attract the attention of the titular leeches.

After the leeches do what leeches do and start sucking on the swim teams’ skin they’re infected with their steroid-filled blood which, to the movie’s credit, is at least a vaguely plausible premise for what happens next which is the leeches mutating into foot-long, blood-hungry menaces.

Or at least they would be menacing if they weren’t blatantly rubber props being jerkily pulled along by not quite invisible fishing line.