The flesh eaters is a 1964 american scifi horror film. Whatever you want to call it, doesnt matter in the slightest. It constantly mixes sex with death, and breaks four or five taboos per chapter. The grand allinclusiveness in the kingdom of rawk, a playlist by flesh eaters on spotify. A seaplane, piloted by grant murdock, is chartered by alcoholic film. The film tells the story of a caribbean island cursed by voodoo, whose dead residents rise as zombies to attack the living. It can be described as outbreak meets gilligans island.
Fulllength with nazi experimentation scene personally readded spliced into the film by me at the point which i thought it best and obviously belongs. An actress, her assistant and their pilot are stranded on a deserted island by a storm. A playlist featuring the flesh eaters, the animals, van morrison, and others open. Some of the castaways meet with untimely, and often viciously ugly. Film editor radley metzger found his own way as the director of numerous softporn films in the 60s and 70s. With james lemire, gia franzia, david rosenhaus, jessica alexandra green. 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. Although the gore is rather tame by todays standards, for a film thats over 50 years old, it was pretty shocking in its day. Editorialized or obnoxiously long titles will be removed, use exact titles per imdb. You see, a mad scientist has been doing experiments to make flesheating creatures and sell them as biological weapons. Christopher drake in the flesh eaters 1964 the flesh eaters 1964 byron sanders in the.
Considered one of the first gore films, the flesh eaters is surprisingly entertaining, despite special effects that couldnt have been very convincing even in 1964, but which deliver on the promise of lots of blood and exposed bone. The flesh eaters can be called one of the first true gore films. Isle of the flesheaters trailer 2007 from abyssmal entertainment pro. Ah, the mighty zombie flesh eaters aka zombie, aka zombi 2, and apparently aka woodoo. The flesh eaters 1964 feature comedy, horror, scifi. Hinzman, who wrote, produced, edited, directed and starred in the film, is best known for playing the cemetery ghoul in george a. The 2006 dark sky films dvd, however, promises that its 87 minute print is the definitive cut.
While sprinting zombies were briefly exciting back in the early 2000s, the shuffle zombie will always reign supreme and this is a shining example of the genre. The flesh eaters is a 1962 released 1964 american science fiction horror feature film directed by jack curtis from a screenplay by arnold. The flesh eaters stylish visuals were clearly influenced by comic books. The gigantic ones and their showdown with the hero at the end requires much suspension of disbelief but the monsters are also quite nastylooking which makes for fun viewing if youre into seeing giant monsters. When you scratch emulsion with a pin, youre doing it deep enough that the effect is a white scratch as opposed to a black one, which is caused by a light scratch refracting light in a different direction. The flesh eaters 1964 feature comedy, horror, scifi video. That film would be shot during the day, after which fragrasso, who had hardly any sleep during the two week shooting schedule you have to admire his passion if nothing else would shoot zombie flesh eaters 3 in the same place at night, and using even the same camera. Three people crash land on this island and are befriended by the prof, but they soon discover his secret and the deadly flesh eaters.
Over 500 songs comingling all different kinds of pop, rock, punk, blues, jazz, oldschool country and vintage movie soundtrack music. The flesh eaters is an american horror film directed by jack curtis. The tiny flesh eating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money and lives. Back to the real film, and bartell explains a nazi submarine unleashed a sample of flesh eaters off the florida coast in the latter stages of the war, only for the release mechanism to fail. Night of the day of the dawn of the son of the bride of the return of the revenge of the terror of the attack of the evil, mutant, alien, flesh eating, hellboun.
The film is notable for being one of the earliest examples of. It was written by arnold drake and produced by curtis, drake and curtis wife terry van tell. Night of the day of the dawn of the son of the bride of. It would be interesting if someone would remake the flesh eaters today. Fulllength with nazi experimentation scene personally readded spliced into the film by me at the point which i. The flesh eaters 1964 is regularly identified as the first gore movie actually, it was beaten to the punch by the japanese jigoku and h. 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. These unfortunate people happen to be stranded with a mad scientist. The distributor had them change it so it wouldnt be confused with this film. I havent shared this playlist i curate in a while, so here you go. Film noir history horror miscadult musical mystery romance scifi sport thriller war western rules for posting. In spite of its financial constraints, it manages to be inventive, entertaining, and often hilariously funny. The flesh eaters is a fascinatingly obscure b movie from the 1960s. The flesh eaters buys into the eras fad for nazi mad scientist films, which also included the likes of she demons 1958.
The movie overall is fairly well done but the ending is just ridiculous and kinda ruins the whole film. The flesh eaters is way nastier than any splatterpunk ive ever read. Today i went with another fulci classic 1979s zombie flesh eaters. 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 flesh eating organisms directed by. 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. As they flee the womans crime boss husband, who seeks to murder them for their. The original title of the classic zombie film night of the living dead 1968l was night of the flesh easters. Over all, if you accept the film for what it is, its quite entertaining. While desjardins is the groups only continual member, the flesh eaters lineup has drawn from some of the most famous bands of the l. Stream and watch night of the flesh eaters online in high quality. I saw a sinister cinema tape once that was blurry and had bad audio. It should be a mustsee for horror film freaks tired of crummy publicdomain quality dvds savant enjoyed the high quality for its own sake. Watch night of the flesh eaters movie online midnight pulp.
Peter bartell is an exnazi that has a government secret that he is experimenting with on a remote island. The flesh eaters biography, albums, streaming links. For a bmovie, the acting is actually all quite good, with kosleck all but stealing the show. Flesh eaters, the headhunters horror house wiki fandom. This popular movie is now available on midnight pulp. Lewis blood feast, and has been exhibited in a number of heavily censored versions. Flesheater, sometimes written as flesheater or flesh eater, is a low budget 1988 independent horror film, specifically a zombie film, by bill hinzman. They wanna be punished because of some guilt complex.
The film was scripted by comic book writer jack curtis the doom patrol, marvels. Dark and rootsy hoodoopunk band, often featuring the cream of the l. A 2001 remake of the 1964 original, directed by christo roppolo and shane m. The glowing dots in the water are voracious flesheaters, waiting to devour any unfortunate victim. Sometime around 1950 however, the flesh eaters escaped to chomp their way northwards along the. No film, before or since, has moved like this, seemingly on its own tropical lexicon of tactility and. A scientists daughter, a miss anne bowles played by tisa farrow journeys to this island after her fathers boat turns up in the new york river. Lucio fulcis greatest achievement in so many respects atmospherics, pacing, minutetominute disparity of composition and editing. It is written in the present tense, making all the dismemberment and pickling scenes far too immediate. In a bit of economic creativity the title monsters were created by carefully etching scratches onto the film s emulsion.
The strangest thing about the flesh eaters is, wellthe flesh eaters themselves. 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. The picture feels like were in a downtown manhattan projection room watching the first answer print out of the soup. A gangster and his goon head out to the deep woods to participate in the death of the gangsters cheating wife, and his now expartner at the hands of a mysterious and very. He collects a few of these flesheaters, and begins to experiment on them.
Classic track from their 4th album, forever came today. Zombie flesh eaters 1979 letterboxd your life in film. The flesh eaters themselves make for a memorable menace and the early scene with the two swimmers is an excellent bit of film making. Ill give them this if the flesh eaters effect was created by scratching the emulsion, they would have been black lines. The flesh eaters is noteworthy for such things as being a very early gore film one of the earliest not made by herschell gordon lewis and dave friedman, for inspiring a musical act of the same name, and for forcing george romero to change the title of his legendary night of the living dead, which was originally going to be called night of the flesh eaters.
On the most evil night of the year, a beautiful blond woman and ruggedly handsome archeologist hitman find themselves trapped in a forest haunted by bizarre flesh eating native american demon zombies. Film editor radley metzger found his own way as the director of numerous soft porn films in the 60s and 70s. The flesh eaters is pure exploitation trash of a particularly refined vintage. 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 scientist peter bartell martin kosleck. Night of the flesh eaters is a lowlow budget horror film. Its incredibly cheap, but kind of artful and handmade. It was released theatrically in the united states on march 18th, 1964. Director and cinematographer jack curtis storyboarded the entire film, utilizing deep focus shots and stylized compositions rarely seen in low budget indie films.
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