Boring

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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 welcome!.....KissEnglishPasto@Yahoo.com

It's hard to believe that just three years before Roger Corman would begin his Edgar Allen Poe cycle of films that would bring him international acclaim, he made this - a dirt-cheap black-and-white radiation movie about giant crabs who can communicate telepathically with humans (yes, you read that right). Charles B. Griffin is on writing duties (who also worked with Corman on B-movie classics It Conquered the World (1956), Not of This Earth (1957) and A Bucket of Blood (1959)) and he delivers a humour-laden script that is well aware of just how ridiculous it is.After the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, a group of scientists are sent to a remote island to investigate the disappearance of a former party and further there research into the effects of nuclear testing on plants and wildlife. It soon becomes apparent that giant mutated crabs are responsible and have eaten the scientists that were there previously and have absorbed their minds. With the island collapsing before their eyes and with one of their group missing, they must destroy the crabs and escape.Corman manages to make the film just about as entertaining as it can be, given the budget limitations and the bunch of cornball actors (apart from Russell Johnson of Gilligan's Island fame). It runs at just 62 minutes, and every scene is filled with 'suspense' or 'action', two aspects that Corman usually demanded ran constantly throughout his movies. The crabs themselves look ridiculous and actually move forward - oh the horror! - rather than sideways, but watching crap actors getting hit over the head with a giant paper mache claw never gets old. Certainly an amusing way to pass an hour.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

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.