Nothing special, just another movie about giant mutant crabs who collect human consciousnesses and use telekinetic powers to cause geological disruptions. Really, nothing special, you've seen one, you've seen them all. Only Roger Corman (and his regular writing partner Charles B. Griffith) could come up with a movie about crabs who mutated after nuclear tests and obtained telepathic and telekinetic powers. Corman's exploits tended to use more original and outrageous ideas even compared bigger budgeted studio contemporaries. So, this time the monsters are not simply giant brutal killing machines - this time they are also intelligent. Film's running time is merely over an hour and almost every minute of it is filled with action - looking for missing companions in the caves, or fighting with the monsters, or running from them. The plot is simple - an expedition goes to the island to investigate what happened to previous expedition who got lost without a trace. The film's budget was $70.000 and it made a whole million back at the box office, thus making 'Attack of the Crab Monsters' most profitable film Roger Corman ever directed.It's title is classical 'That Monster From There' type they made tons in the fifties, but very few could get close in the department of originality. Corman had sense to add a twist to the film to make it more intelligent - that is making the Styrofoam monsters intelligent. With that turning simple monster movie into highly entertaining (and surreal) experience.What a fun.

Sadly, this is the best Roger Corman movie I have seen.It has all the things a normal Corman movie has like terrible acting, a worse plot and no budget but somehow it's not as bad as usual.Black and white was Corman's best friend, I bet he was mad when he had to start using color.So scientists with guns go to an island where they know other scientists have disappeared and then they all split up.You can guess what happens next.Of course Corman adds in some scuba diving, it seems to be in all of his movies.The Professor from Gilligan's Island is in this and he's by far the best actor.I really believe that never seeing a Corman film is the way to go but if you must see one, make it this one.

...........................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FL Nine Years Old…That's how old I was when CRAB MONSTERS was released! When did I become a B Movie junkie? Probably from age 7 or 8, who knows, maybe even 6! When the conversation turns to those schlocky B movies of the 50's and 60's, this Roger Corman classic is one of the first that comes to mind! Corman is King! He really knows how to pack a lot of action into 62 minutes! Yes, this 1957 Classic is barely over one hour in length! With this in mind, no doubt, CRAB MONSTERS gives us on screen fun within its first couple minutes…What is there to analyze about a classic Corman film? From the beginning, we all knew that the bad guys (In this case, the gigantic via radiation Crabs) would all get theirs in the end and the world would be safe…until the next Roger Corman film was released a couple months later!....Ah….Those were the days, right? Whatever your age bracket, you can get together with friends, some popcorn, snacks and some ….(?????) and have an hour of cinematic roller-coaster fun, from one of the most prolific names in Hollywood, who has been involved in about 500 FILMS…WOW! 8*.....ENJOY!/DISFRUTELA! Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most [email protected]

As a friend of mine pointed out, if someone gives Corman $60K to make a film, he'll manage to make it look like it had a budget of a million. Alas, if he gets a million to make a movie...it'll still look as if it had a budget of a million. Of course, this also means that Corman movies have a certain look and rough charm that lets the viewer identify anything he's done within a minute of starting to watch it, even if they start in the middle.AOTCM...well, it has its charms. As with all Corman films, there's a germ of an intriguing idea driving the screenplay, and there's mystery, intrigue,suspense,claustrophobia, and some hard working actors trying to sell the ludicrous dialog. They actually manage to get through some typically over-packed expository stuff in the beginning without bogging things down, and the screenplay cleverly lets us get to see the characters for a few minutes before introducing them by name. So "Attack" actually starts out pretty well.Alas, about 15-20 minutes in (I count it as the spot where the geologist decides to shimmy down into a newly created pit), the brains of the movie sort of leak out its nose and ears and things get turgid and pretty silly after that. Major plot holes start developing and are never plugged up, there's a couple of plot twists that don't really lead anywhere, at least two of the characters seem suicidally dumb, and the movie just stops dead at the end as if it were a Roadrunner cartoon.Still, I liked it for what it was and had a pretty good time. I was pleased to see Russell Johnson in the mix (his character actually has a wistful moment with the heroine which comes off pretty well), and the idea of telepathic crabs luring their victims to their doom with the voices of the crabs' previous victims has a certain zing to it.Strictly sci fi movie fodder, like most of Corman's output, but if you like his style, you'll like this.