Attack of the Crab Monsters

From the depths of the sea... a tidal wave of terror!

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Overview:

Scientists become trapped on a shrinking island with intelligent, murderous giant crabs.

Released: 1957-02-10

Duration: 01:02:00

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi

Tags: Monster Horror, Kaiju

Keywords: Eumalacostraca, Bare Chested Male, Creature Feature, ...

Director: Roger Corman

Writer: Charles B. Griffith

Cast: Richard Garland, Beach Dickerson, Pamela Duncan, ...

Director: Roger Corman

Writer: Charles B. Griffith

Cast: Richard Garland Beach Dickerson Pamela Duncan Charles B. Griffith Ed Nelson Tony Miller Richard H. Cutting Mel Welles Leslie Bradley Russell Johnson Maitland Stuart

Genre: Horror Sci-Fi

Tags: Monster Horror Kaiju

Keywords: Eumalacostraca Bare Chested Male Creature Feature Headless Corpse Eating Brains Arthouse Malacostracans Pancrustacea Tactopoda Panarthropoda Nephrozoa Parahoxozoa Psychotronic Film Giant Crab Disembodied Voice Consolidated Pby 5 Catalina Decapitation Eaten Alive Stock Footage Wireless Telegraphy Hand Chopped Off Disappearing Without A Trace Pregnant Animal Mutation Mind Transference Mutant Creature B Movie Giant Monster 1950s Stranded On An Island Crab Brachyura Pleocyemata Eucarida Malacostraca Crustacean Tetraconata Arthropod Arthropoda Ecdysozoa Exoskeleton Protostome Protostomia Bilateria Eumetazoa Animal Decapod Hairy Chested Man Man Wears A Swimsuit Woman Wears A One Piece Swimsuit Woman Wears A Swimsuit Underwater Scene Low Budget Sci Fi Movie Natural Horror Crab Monster Giant Monster Sci Fi Cult Movie Animal Attack Island Monster Stranded Scientist Cigarette Smoking Tent Claw Speaking French Pit Microscope Climbing A Rope Exploring A Cave Laboratory Lab Rat Dynamite Playing Poker Manta Ray Scuba Diving Rock Slide Electrocution Oil Fire Electricity Trap Hand Grenade Poker Game Falling From Height Ghostly Voice Scuba Diver Mouse Seaplane Raft Man Overboard Hydrogen Bomb Nuclear Explosion Telepathy Investigation Electrical Engineer Journal Radio Sabotage Radio Tower Cave Landslide Earthquake Explosion Radiation Search Party Pacific Island Atoll Exploding Airplane Independent Film

Description

A group of scientists and their support crew of five sailors land on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. They are searching for a previous expedition that disappeared without a trace, and to continue their research on the effects of radiation from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests on the island\'s plant and sea life. The scientists on the expedition are led by Dr. Karl Weigand (Leslie Bradley), and also include geologist James Carson (Richard H. Cutting) and biologists Jules Deveroux (Mel Welles), Martha Hunter (Duncan), and Dale Drewer (Garland). Their party also includes technician and handyman Hank Chapman (Johnson).

Soon after their arrival, a sailor, Tate (Charles B. Griffith), falls in the water and is killed, his decapitated body floating to the surface. Two sailors (Beach Dickerson and Tony Miller) are left behind to guard the explorers, while the others, led by Ensign Quinlan (Ed Nelson), attempt to return to the mainland, but their seaplane inexplicably explodes.

The scientists are unable to report what happened due to a storm, so they decide to stay on the island and continue their research. They read journal entries written by the previous scientific team, which mention killer worm creatures. Martha and Dale later go scuba diving. That night, Martha hears \"McLane\", leader of the previous expedition, calling out to her. Carson descends into a pit that opened up outside during an inexplicable earthquake and falls, losing his footing.

The current expedition learns to their horror that the earlier group had been killed and eaten by two mutated, intelligent giant crabs, who have absorbed the minds of their victims and can speak telepathically in their voices. Members of the current expedition are being systematically attacked and killed by the monsters, which are now invulnerable to most standard weaponry because of their cell structure mutations.

The remaining scientists finally discover that both giant crabs are the cause of the ongoing earthquakes and landslides on the island; they are slowly destroying the island, reducing its size, by undermining it with tunnels. The scientists turn their attention to a way to stop the mating pair of monsters from reproducing. They are able to kill one of the giant crabs in a cave when their placed explosive detonates, shaking loose an overhead rock that crushes the head of the monster.

As the island continues to fall away into the Pacific, and after barely escaping from their collapsing laboratory building, the surviving trio of Dale, Martha, and Hank finally meet the remaining intelligent giant crab, Hoolar, who speaks to them via telepathy. Hoolar vows to go to the mainland with her fertilized eggs when the island is gone (and the three humans are dead) to feed upon even more people, absorbing those minds in the process. Hank then sacrifices himself by bringing down an electrically-charged broadcast tower directly on top of the giant crab, electrocuting the monster and her unhatched brood. Dale and Martha embrace on the small portion of what remains of the once large island.