While investigating the disappearance of researchers who had been looking into atomic activity in the Pacific, a group of scientists become marooned on an island. Home Video Distributor: Shout Factory Exclusive Sure, it looks completely realistic - with a facial expression and everything else that goes along with mutated monsters - but the working of the dead scientist’s voice and their memories as they call out to the survivors works to create some great moments of fear and fun!Īttack of the Crab Monsters is only available through Shout! Factory’s online store. This fifteen-foot Atomic Age puppet - hysterical and haunting at the same time - is operated by Peyton’s Place Ed Nelson and, while the script called for two crabs, there was only one which constantly traversed back and forth across the island, picking off the scientists left and right. These crabs are on the prowl and it is world dominance that they are after because - once they devour their prey - they absorb their science-founded minds AND their voices (you know, to lure other scientists their way) and it is off the island they want. Cutting), biologist Jules Deveroux ( Mel Welles), Martha Hunter ( Pamela Duncan), and Dale Drewer ( Richard Garland) - muse about the possibilities of sea serpents and other weird anomalies able to rip someone’s head off, handyman Hank Chapman ( Russell Johnson, you know him as 'The Professor' on Gilligan’s Island) attempts to find a rationale explanation for all the tremors they are experiencing on the island.Īnd it all has to do with a giant pair of telepathic crabs products of the atomic experiments that have been ravishing the islands. Karl Weigand ( Leslie Bradley), geologist James Carson ( Richard H. Something is separating them from the outside world! They are more alone than they ever dare ask - especially after their seaplane explodes and their attempts to communicate with others is completely rattled by a lightning storm.

The joke here is that the man who gets decapitated is actually the film’s screenwriter Charles Griffith (who also wrote Death Race 2000 and was a frequent Corman collaborator) and, of course, it is an omen of things to come for this group of scientists who, arriving on an unnamed Pacific Island, have come in search of the first expedition that have gone missing. Produced and directed by Roger Corman, Attack of the Crab Monsters is a cult classic, atomically-mutated 63-minute blast through Z-grade territory and it begins with an edge of seat sequence in which a sailor, thrown overboard from a speeding raft, is decapitated by something HUGE just below the surface. That way the monsters will retread to the ocean and have enough time to plan their long-term attack on humanity, seeking to conquer the world and become the new dominant species on the planet.'Suspense! Action! And GIANT telepathic crabs! What more could you ask for in a B-movie?!?!' Using their psychic abilities to alter their surrounding geography, they have been slowly tearing down the island in order for it to sink, as this will destroy all the humans who know about their existence. The Crab Monsters consider themselves a superior species and plan to destroy humanity. On the other hand, bullets will pass straight through them without causing damage, and they can regenerate lost limbs in only a few hours. In spite of their physical strength, they can be dismembered and even killed with relative ease. Exposure to electric discharges causes their bodies to dissolve immediately. However, their disrupted molecules also result in some vulnerabilities. They also have psychokinetic abilities and can cause things to explode. That's why they can absorb the minds of the people they eat, as well as telepathically transmitting their voices and thoughts. This structure is such that anything the monsters consume is immediatelly assimilated into their bodies.

Their molecular structure has been described as 'disrupted', as 'there's no cohesion between the atoms'. The Crab Monsters have been mutated down to the atomic level. They have developed the ability to absorb the minds of people whose flesh they have eaten, and are capable of projecting their voices over long distances. The Crab Monsters are a race of intelligent giant land crabs, created as a result of radiation from nuclear tests on a remote island in the Pacific.

Attack of the giant crab monsters