The flesh eaters movie posters from movie poster shop. Jul 17, 2015 the flesh eaters 1964 unrated 87 min comedy, horror, scifi 18 march 1964 usa a group of young adults are trapped on a desert island only to find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh eating organisms. Overview of the flesh eaters, 1964, directed by jack curtis, with martin kosleck, rita morley, byron sanders, at turner classic movies. Mckinney has restored my faith in the zombie genre. The flesh eaters seemed like the best film for me to write about for the film preservation blogathon, whose theme this year is science fiction. The flesh eaters 1964 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Blumberg, celebrates 100 years of cinematic zombies with an analysis of how night of the living. The flesh eaters is a 1964 american horrorscience fiction thriller, directed on a low budget by jack curtis and edited by future filmmaker radley metzger. Film editor radley metzger found his own way as the director of numerous soft porn films in the 60s and 70s. There were rockin clubs and cafes with cool jukeboxes, teen poolside parties with local bands, sometimes it was a seedy bar with a sleazy torch singer, a beatnik coffeehouse, maybe dancing somewhere in outer space. Martin kosleck, byron sanders, barbara wilkin, rita morley, ray tudor. Blumberg, celebrates 100 years of cinematic zombies with. Watch the flesh eaters 1964 full movie free online. Flesh eaters turns this convention on its ear by disposing of the character in graphically morbid fashion. The flesh eaters uncut version 1964 rare movie collector. The great rule of low budget films is invoked here. They are the most prominent of the bands which have showcased the compositions and singing of their founder, punk poet chris desjardins, best known as chris d.
Longtime fans of the film with find these neverbeforeseen outtakes both fascinating and titillating. That kind of graphic gore is what really separates the flesh eaters from other horror films of its era particularly the above mentioned pre alien 1979 chest buster. Get the best deals on horror creaturesmonsters super 8 movie film stock when you shop the largest online selection at. The flesh eaters 1964 unrated 87 min comedy, horror, scifi 18 march 1964 usa a group of young adults are trapped on a desert island only to find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh eating organisms. A theater had a display of stills and kmen 129 radio bombarded us with creepy ads consisting of a scream, some horrible boiling noise and a voice with a german accent saying something like, it only eats flesh. Simply put, the flesh eaters offers everything one could want from a drivein flick of this era. This is one of my favorite movies that used to be shown on chiller theater when i was a kid. This fun, endearingly trashy bmovie gem is one of the bestkept secrets in cult movie fandom. The tiny flesheating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money and lives. Flesh eaters is a short film about an impressionable catholic boy who faces his first communion confused about the implications of eating jesus flesh and convinced. This thoroughly weird but truly inspired monster flick is one of the earliest gore films to splatter across drivein screens in the years prior to herschell gordon lewis notorious blood trilogy. The film was released on dvd by mpi home video on oct 25, 2005. While desjardins is the groups only continual member, the flesh eaters lineup has drawn from some of the most famous bands of. The flesh eaters 1964 unrated 87 min comedy, horror, scifi.
The water surrounding a desert island is very nippy, as a group of trapped travelers finds out when violent water creatures start eating them alive. Sure, its not citizen kane, but its probably the citizen kane of killer microbes versus buxom blondes on an island with a german scientist movies. The flesh eaters is a highly entertaining exploitation film one where jack curtis has managed to tap all the things that make such films. Those little tiny microbes eating their way through the victims flesh made an indelible impression on me. Usa when a hurricane forces a small plane to land on an island, the pilot and his two passengers find themselves trapped there with a mysterious scientist.
The flesh eaters can be called one of the first true gore films. Watch the flesh eaters full movie in hd visit movie 42793 an alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are d. For a bmovie, the acting is actually all quite good, with kosleck all but stealing the show. Talk is cheap, action costs money, as there is a great deal of talk. The flesh eaters 1964 article 2717 by dave sindelar viewing date.
The flesh eaters 1964 stream and watch online moviefone. The flesh eaters came to san bernardino in the summer of 1964 it could have been 1965. Savant mostly ignored horror films when he was a teenager, preferring. An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad weather, where a renegade nazi scientist is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh. Sep 07, 2018 the new book journey of the living dead. Horror creaturesmonsters super 8 movie film stock for. The flesh eaters is a 1964 film about a group of young adults who are trapped on a desert island where the water is inhabited by a violent form of flesheating organisms directed by. It has scifi, horror, nazis, nottoosubtle sexploitation scenes, and laugh out load situations and dialogue complete. Done well enough, such a film can be as enjoyable as more the psychologically complex examples of the genre. The flesh eaters 1964 is a prime example of digging through the filmic wreckage and dredging up a low budget winner. The flesh eaters 1964 unrated 1h 27min horror, scifi 18 march 1964 usa a group of young adults trapped on a desert island find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesheating organisms. But the flesh eaters is an obscure monster movie in which the. The flesh eaters came to san bernardino in the summer of 1964 it could. Gate of flesh is a film about carnal desires and the interchangeability of pleasure and pain, the films title itself is used multiple times in the script to represent passing through the realm of.
Her drunk acting was terrible and the character was annoying talking to herself with terrible lines. Horror, science fiction, fantasy, spy, superhero, jd, thriller and noir films, thats what we like, and a recurring theme in a lot of those kinds of movies has always been music. Released 1964, the flesh eaters stars rita morley, martin kosleck, byron sanders, barbara wilkin the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 32 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. The plot finds a besotted movie star rita morley and her entourage trapped on an island surrounded by aquatic fleshmunching amoebas represented by scratches on the film emulsion created by mad. Buy the flesh eaters movie posters from movie poster shop. This level of grisly monster attacks, bloody gunshot wounds, attempted rapes and random brutality was unheard of in 1964. Unknown if hilter and his infamous nazi germany used radiation to create atomic daikaijus,but in the 1964 horror film,the flesh eaters,the nazi scientists used radiation to create sea creatures that rapidly consumed animal life within seconds,and exposure to electricity can turn a mass of flesh eaters into a huge giant mass of destructive. Film editor radley metzger found his own way as the director of numerous softporn films in the 60s and 70s.
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Flesh eaters is the third novel in joe mckinneys bram stoker award winning series dead world. A hardbitten, downonhisluck charter pilot byron sanders is hired by an alcoholic movie actress rita morley and her nubile personal. A group of young adults trapped on a desert island find the. I think they were simply scratched into the film afterwards, frame by. It can be described as outbreak meets gilligans island. All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. Fulllength with nazi experimentation scene personally readded spliced into the film by me at the point which i thought it best and obviously belongs. It later had a rerelease in 1968 which removed a flashback sequence showing the original nazi human experiments with the flesh eaters. With martin kosleck, byron sanders, barbara wilkin, rita morley. The flesh eaters 1964 downtrodden pilot grant murdoch byron sanders agrees to fly actress laura winters rita morley and her assistant, jan letterman barbara wilkin, to provincetown after. It has scifi, horror, nazis, nottoo subtle sexploitation scenes, and laugh out load situations and dialogue complete.
The film contains moments of violence much more graphic and extreme than many other movies of its time, making it one of the first ever gore films. The flesh eaters was shot on long island in montauk, new york between the 1962 and 1963 hurricane seasons. The flesh eaters 1964 trailer comedy, horror, scifi. The flesh eaters is a 1964 film about a group of young adults who are trapped on a desert island where the water is inhabited by a violent form of flesheating organisms directed by jack curtis. The flesh eaters was first released in phoenix, arizona on march 18, 1964. Engine trouble forces a plane down on an isolated island, where a nazi scientist is working on tiny sea creatures that eat human flesh. One reward for cult fans industrious enough to seek out flesh eaters on video is the restoration of several gory seconds of film usually excised from tv prints. Apparently there may be a couple of different version of the film the flesh eaters 1964 floating around, but this is the only one ive ever seen, so its the only one i can comment on.