Yes!

* * 1/2
This is my kind of movie. A great creature feature from the '60s. Black and white. Bad acting. Bad special effects. Bad dialogue. Shotguns. Moonshine jugs. Rednecks. Plus, it was one feature on a double-feature DVD, that also has a yet-to-be-watched movie, The Wasp Woman, that sounds just as entertaining as this one.
Roger Corman was notorious from the '50s to the '70s for producing and directing cheap movies in a quick time frame. What he usually ended up with was movies like this one: poorly made movies. But its good in that Plan 9, Robot Monster sort of way.
When an adulterous couple are snatched by something from a local lake, things begin to run amok. A naturalist who is in the area destroying illegal hunting traps doesn't beileve that there is something in the lake killing people and will not let anyone throw dynamite in to "see if any bodies float up from the bottom." This essentially leads to a gang of rednecks searching the local swamp for the giant leeches, which they eventually find. Of course, the leeches aren't giant by Eegah! standards. More like giant compared to regular leech sizes.
So, the giant leech. When I first saw them, I couldn't help but laugh. Who wouldn't? It basically looks like a garbage bag with suction cups stuck all over it. As you see the leech moving underwater, you can see whoever is in it's legs and arms flailing inside the bag. Classic movie special effects.
I have seen better b-movies than this one, but it is still enjoyable to watch. Released in 1960, and with a running time of 66 minutes, it doesn't take long to watch, so if you like the b-grade beauties, check it out.
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