In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

A horrible remake of a Corman flick.Attack of the Giant Leeches it's probably one of the worst remakes I have ever seen. Not only is it cheaper than the original movie (which was made by Roger Corman) but it manages to be even worse than the original and I am not a fan of the 1959 version, but at least you can enjoy it because of how bad it is, this one, not so much.It has some horrendous acting and editing, not to mention that the music its also pretty awful, but perhaps the worst part about it its the fact that they didn't even try to make it a "so-bad-its-good" movie.Overall, it's a pretty awful movie (not that I was expecting it to be any good to begin with).

Let us endeavor to conjecture and propose a supposition pertaining to a conundrum I am experiencing after viewing this atrocity. Variable one pertains to a Roger Corman. This is a man with an incredible propensity for the creation of films on a minimal budget and almost ALWAYS a profit on his investment. He truly is the king of exploitation films. This being a remake (probably due to the film being out of copyright date) is of a 1959 movie he made.So how does one create a movie to begin with on a minimal budget that still exceeds the product created decades later? Could it be an overwhelming plethora of non-talent?I have a great affinity for actors that do horrible hillbilly stereotypes with Canadian accents. The "Leeches" are hand puppets that can be misconstrued for earthworms on steroids. I did find the "rifle" that was supposed to be a shotgun but was a toy musket seen multiple times. They try to exploit young ladies which has absolutely no impact in sexually gratuity within the film. We get a few scenes of a marsh but the action takes place around a lake, no marsh or swamp. Our hillbillies are supposed to be comical relief while we wait for a meteorite to plummet to earth and obliterate them. The sheriff inhabits room 12 with crap being stored in some building somewhere. Let us examine one scene in particular. A search party has been gathered to attempt to locate two bodies. Several men follow the sheriff down the shore of a lake, not a marsh. All follow after the sheriff. Would it not behoove them to "Spread out" instead of following him and looking at their feet literally as they walk? One idiot is looking up in the trees where many a body has been known to be discovered. If only the Lockness monster would have interjected itself into the movie and consumed the entire cast, that would have been worth watching.The Corman version of this movie receives a 3.5 on the IMDb which sounds about right. If you view the MST3K riffing of the Corman movie then it is a 7.0 as this film rates a 1.9 and should be considerably lower.After viewing this movie I made preparation to invoke the great Cuthulu and the old ones to enter this dimension to rule but they declined because it is too dark and forbidding a place even for them and with absolutely nothing original that can be done in writing, films or art we are all in a pathetic Hell anyway.

I didn't know whether to think this was a fan-made version or an actual remake version of the 1959 classic. But regardless of what it actually was, then it stunk to high heaven.The storyline in "Attack of the Giant Leeches" was adequate, or well at least as it can be for a movie of this type.But it all snapped with the horrible acting, even worse dialogue and production value of the movie. You have to look long and far to find such an abysmal movie. They are out there, but luckily rare.IT was so difficult to take anything in this movie even remotely serious, aside from one thing; the leeches. Now, they could have been better, much, much better, mind you. But they were like pure gold compared to everything else in this movie.This 2008 version of "Attack of the Giant Leeches" should be given a wide berth. Some of us suffered through it so you don't have to.My rating of two out of ten stars is solely because of the leeches. Everything else in the movie wasn't worth the marsh in which most of the movie took place.This is a stinker, guys. You have been warned.

Attack of the Giant Leeches (2008) * 1/2 (out of 4) Remake of the 1959 drive-in cult classic has pretty much the same plot as giant leeches in the swamp are sucking the blood out of locals so a wildlife expert and his girlfriend try to figure out what's going on whenever they're not arguing. I guess I should start off by admitting that the original film is one of my favorite "B" movies. Yes, it's incredibly cheesy but I love bad or campy movies and I consider it one of the best out there. With that said, I was really looking forward to this remake just to see what they would try to come up with but this here is pretty much a scene for scene remake. Perhaps that's a bit too strong since this does run about sixteen-minutes longer than the previous film but while watching this you can't help but feel that the director made the entire cast watch the original and try to mimic it. If you're familiar with the earlier movie then you're going to notice that there are countless scenes here that have the same setting, the same build-up and even the same dialogue. I'm not sure if director Brett Kelly was doing this as some sort of homage or if they were just being lazy and not coming up with anything new. Either way, fans of the 1959 version will probably find it mildly amusing at first but others are going to probably want to blow their brains out. Yes, the production values here are incredibly cheap, the actors seem uncomfortable and there's really no point to this remake. I'm not sure what they were trying to do but it really doesn't work because this film never manages to get its own personality because every step of the way it's reminding you of the previous movie. Even if you're unfamiliar with that movie then you're probably going to hate this even worse as you're simply not going to understand anything going on.