Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.

January 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 67

Total Comments: 30

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Attack of the Giant Leeches / USA / 1959

Nothing beats a straightforward horror title. If you sit down to watch Attack of the Giant Leeches you know you’re going to see some giant leeches, and you know they’re going to attack people. Awesome. Too few movies today allow themselves to be such pure, inane entertainment, and that is a shame.

True, the leeches here are obviously human beings draped in black Hefty bags, but when they rise up from their underwater cave to claim another victim, it’s hard not to feel a twinge of joy that someone actually bothered to make this movie.

And when the leeches are’t attacking, we still have plenty of entertainment fodder, including a bar full of superstitious locals, an ill-fated boating excursion, a cheatin’ wife and her rifle-toting husband, and talk of radiation, dynamite, and the ethical considerations of disturbing a government-protected nature preserve.

Sitting down to view this black and white treat with my family over the recent holiday vacation, I looked around the room at one point and realized that we were all riveted to the screen; everyone laughing at the leeches, the bad dialogue, and the dimly lit sets. In short, everyone was having fun. What more can you ask for?

by Thomas Scalzo | Source: DVD
07 Jan 2006 2:01 PM | Submit Comment

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