<![CDATA[io9: attack of the giant leeches]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: attack of the giant leeches]]> http://io9.com/tag/attackofthegiantleeches http://io9.com/tag/attackofthegiantleeches <![CDATA[Attack Of The Giant Leeches Reboot!]]> Finally someone is remaking a scifi movie that I'm not terribly upset about. In fact I think I could watch numerous reboots of Attack Of The Giant Leeches and never get tired of the big, black, blood-sucking creatures. The 1959 Roger Corman classic is getting remade by My Dead Girlfriend indie director Brett Kelly, who promises to bring on the suckfest.

The story is simple: Giant leeches kill people. No release date yet, but I'm starting to think I'm going to throw a joint party for both the Giant Leeches and the Nazi Zombies from Dod Snow. My only quibble? I do wish they would have paid just a little more homage to the truly terrible leech suits from the original.

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[Brett Kelly via Bloody Disgusting]

]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059848&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[A Little Love from the Giant Leeches]]> One of the most demented things about Roger Corman's 1959 flick Attack of the Giant Leeches is the way the leeches seem to sort of make love to their victims. Trapped in the mega-leeches' slimy cave in Florida, the humans in this scene are being given the old gigantic suction treatment. And at least one of them sounds like she's moaning in pleasure.

Like all Corman monster flicks, Attack of the Giant Leeches has a lot of seemingly extraneous stuff going on outside monster's lair that's actually far more interesting than the rubber-suited menaces. (Not that I don't fucking adore these sucker-mouthed guys.) The woman you see being drained of blood here was having an affair with one of her husband's pals, which is how they ran into the leeches in the first place. Hubby had followed them out to their swampy borking pad and held them at gunpoint until they fled into the water . . . and were dragged away by leeches! The fake white trash accents and noir-ish sex triangle are insane and eyebrow-raising.

Not to take away from the glory of the leeches. I'm totally not doing that. Leeches FTW! [Attack of the Giant Leeches via IMDB]

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