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Doctor Weigand (Leslie Bradley) and his team of scientists come to a
remote island which is supposed to have been touched by a nuclear cloud
and where another team of scientists has escaped from the face of the
earth. Soon enough, members of Weigand's party vanish as well, but not
only that, the whole island seems to be disappearing by and by - and not
only that either, the disappeared, probably dead, members of the group are
still able to communicate with the living, but only to lure them into
deadly traps. And as if that wasn't enough, giant crabs attack our heroes
as well, giant crabs who obviously are able to make the brains of those
they have eaten part of their brains and can thus telepathically (?) talk
to other humans. Eventually, Weigand and company find out the crabs can be
killed by electrocution, but since all the scientists are way too eager to
explore the caves that seem to be the cause of the on-going disappearance
of the island to take care of the problem at hand, they die like flies
until the survivors are down to biologist Martha (Pamela Duncan), her
college sweetheart Dale (Richard Garland), also a biologist, and
technician Hank (Russell Johnson), who is secretly in love with Martha,
but when he realizes it's hopeless and she'll never leave Dale, he gives
his life eletrocuting the last of the crabs and this way saving the girl
he loves. Now this film has a wild plot even for an atomic
scare sci-fi movie from the 1950's: Telepathic crabs that can assimilate
(in lack of a better word) human brains and take them over ... wow.
Unfortunately, this idea is just too wild to not be silly, and in this
case, the silliness does not work in the film's favour, and in this case,
Roger Corman, an at times ingenious low budget director, can do very
little to turn the ship around, making this one of his lesser efforts. But
be that as it may, especially for its silliness, this is at least a nice
party movie.
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