It gave me nightmares!

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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Flesh Eaters

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Allie-Oop — 21 years ago(November 14, 2004 08:23 PM)

I saw this film with my Dad and my brother one Saturday afternoon at the local movie theater when I was 8 years old - a long time ago. My father watched the film and laughed at all the horrible scenes. My brother boo'd the bad guy and yelled at the next victim to "watch out" - but they never did. Me, I covered my eyes with my hands in terror. I dreamt of the flesh-eating sea creatures flooding the streets up to my front door - leaving me stuck and stranded. That year I had trouble swimming in the lake on summer vacation and wouldn't go into the water until I was sure it was safe. Even though I knew then that the film was lame, I'd like to see it again. How funny it is that I remember the film that gave me nightmares in such an oddly endearing way.

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Squashpants — 21 years ago(December 08, 2004 05:38 PM)

Cool.
I think I know the answer already, but I gotta ask.
Did the version you saw as an 8 year old, have the Nazi laboratories scenes in it, naked girl guinea pigs and all?

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fifthstreetman — 18 years ago(November 18, 2007 02:32 AM)

You know that chick in the bikini at the opening of the film was pretty sexy too. She looks pretty hot, in a modern kind of way, in that skimpy two-piece. She's probably a little old lady now!!

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Squashpants — 18 years ago(December 08, 2007 07:34 PM)

Yes, a reasonable observation. For the time, this would have been responded to something like a topless scene in a movie nowadays.
You may notice a fair amount of skin (rather tame by today's standards) in this movie, enough to make it interesting, particularly to male audiences of the day. I felt rather ambivalent about Rita Morley's jello-y cleavage in some of her wardrobe, but I found her secretary's decolletage in her push-up demi-bra quite sexy.
You may also note that future porn director Radley Metzger edited this pic (and did a fine job with what he had).

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cool302 — 18 years ago(February 21, 2008 10:23 AM)

it is on amc on early fri/sat at 4:45 a.m. will watch this movie, too bad they haven't showed 20 million miles to earth, rocketship x-m, conquest of space and target earth, those movies are on dvd.

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gnome-5 — 17 years ago(July 09, 2008 11:45 PM)

Back when I was in grade school, a girl let me borrow her copy of a Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine with The Flesh Eaters on the cover. Now, the artwork doesn't match anything in the movie it's a close-up of a man's screaming face as he's consumed from within by writhing tendrils But it was such a strong image that it stuck with me for decades even though I never saw the movie.
Anyway, I saw it recently, and of course, there was no way it could live up to that impression stored away by my fevered adolescent brain too bad