OK, so there are some goofy hillbilly types running around the swamp, getting bled dry by gigantic leeches. Yes, the leeches are grown men wearing plastic trash bags. The hero is a living Ken doll. So what?! The ONLY reason to watch this flick is to see Yvette Vickers (Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman) in her underwear! She dances! She prances! She applies body-lotion! She parades about like the free-spirit she is! Hallelujah! I remember seeing her in this movie 33 years ago. I was 9 years old. I never forgot her! Buy this movie now...

Fans of fifties creature features should enjoy this smarmy swamp saga about vampirish predators that keep captives in caves to suffer lingering, sucked-dry deaths. The monsters are fearsomely fun, the hero hairy-chested and handsome, the leading lady clingy and lovely, and the leading non-lady cleavaged and vampily luscious. The scripting is tolerably sensible, and the acting and direction are above average for this sort of cinema. In its day, this movie's gruesome mutants and waterborne dead bodies would have seemed more grisly than gleeful. But today, both adjectives can be applied in abundance!

Yvette Vickers and her tube of lotion make this a must-have.

This is a silly but fun romp where people close to a military establishment that dumps nuke waste arte taken away to ... ?

This is not a masterpiece like THEM or TARANTULA but it is a lot fun to watch.

Yvette Vickers is, to put it simply, gorgeous ! Tho it is uneven, there is a spooky mood over the movie. I have never been to Florida but there is something very creepy about the swamps and within the budget < which would get you a coffee and do nut today>, works well.

I can speculate and say it would be a minor classic had the leeches never been shown, but it was made fo r the drive in crowsd and the luckier ones were not interested in the movie by that point. :-)

Anyway, this i s a campy, fun film for the whole family and Yvette is certainly candy for the eye!

For B fans mostly but it does have some haunting moments. I am curious why swampland has not been used more often as a setting for chiiling movies. Shhhhhhh, don't tell! I just got an idea!