Surprisingly effective low-budget horror film about a creep (Martin Kosleck) on an isolated island trying to replicate Nazi experiments with flesh-eating organisms. A pilot transporting an alcoholic actress and her assistant is forced to make an emergency landing on the island and business picks up from there. A good B horror flick with some nice cinematography and special effects that were gory for the time. Despite its budgetary limitations it's pretty neat. Most of the movie takes place in one location, on a beach. Several moments of unintended hilarity, such as Byron Sanders' character talking about his ex ("I actually loved that little tramp.") or every scene involving Ray Tudor's beatnik (I'm comin', my people, I'm comin'!"). Sexy Barbara Wilkin has a nice scene taking off her shirt to help bandage Sander's wound. Tame by today's standards of course. Martin Kosleck is good fun as the mad scientist and the rest of the cast is enjoyable enough. Worth a look even if it isn't going to change your life.

I love this film! Well paced and brisk B-movie, incredibly gory for its time. It is NOT a "comedy-horror" as shown in the listing, but it has at least one unique comic relief character: a hippie raft drifter named Omar is warned not to come near the island shore, teeming with Flesh Eaters. "Yeah, gimme the love, man!" But the Hero shouts back, "Shut your big mouth before you end up a skeleton!" Omar is totally befuddled. "Hey, I feel the love dryin' up, man."Martin Kosleck is, as always, a quintessentially sadistic villain, using victims as guinea pigs for bacterial warfare experiments. *SPOILER ALERT*: In the most sadistic scene, Kosleck drops a flesh eater into Omar's drink that chews a hole through his stomach. Kosleck tape records his agonizing death screams, and sets Omar's corpse back onto the raft with the tape playing.My only gripe is that I wish they had restored the deleted scenes back into the original print, rather than show them separately as an extra. Nor does it have the original red-tint color scene, but I've only seen that from old 16mm transfers. This print offered on the DVD is very clean and well worth the price. And that music score - just perfect. Highly recommended for b-movie monster fans.

Like so many actors who were refugees of Hitler's Germany who specialized in playing Nazis, Martin Kosleck I'm sure found film roles few and far between. It's the only explanation I can think of for why the poor man took on a mad scientist role in The Flesh Eaters.Since the film was shot on the Eastern end of Long Island, I assume that's the location. Three people an actress who drinks too much, her personal assistant, and their private seaplane pilot have to make a forced landing because the carburetor ices up. There they run into Kosleck who's your typical mad scientist. Kosleck's created these creatures who glow in the dark and devour flesh and leave a nice intact skeleton.In this mess of a film, the writers didn't bother with several inconsistencies about how the Kosleck creatures can and are eventually dealt with. Wouldn't want to spoil it for anyone caring to take a look. The special effects are laughable, it looks like it was shot with an old Bell&Howell camera.Yet Kosleck actually tried to give a sincere performance. Poor foolish man, he should have played it for laughs.

You know they say that sometimes a movies is so bad, it's good. Well, I can assure you that this film does not meet that standard. The acting was so bad that it hurt. For what is rumored to be the first "gore" horror, it really disappoints with cheesy acting and a monster that is right out of Plan 9.This film has a collection of weirdo, including a mad scientist (Martin Kosleck), a ridiculous beatnik (Ray Tudor), and an aging drunken has-been actress (Rita Morley).It may be of interest in those who want to check out the oldies, or who are trying to get in the spirit of Halloween, but there are better films to do both.