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Nice to see it on AMC-HD, but it was terribly edited and shortened. Violent scenes were cut, the famous red colorized scene was not there, and the Nazi flashback was totally eliminated.

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me too. lol

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This was one of our fav summer monster movies on Armed Forces TV back in the 70's. We used to scream like crazy when they showed the skeleton on the raft.

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this is what i do when i'm not getting a piece of ass, i get sucked into movies like this one.
the only difference between Lucifer and I is that I was allowed back into heaven.

One of the best b-movies of all times.I love how he kills the hippie scum.I'm watching it right now as well.
But this time no useless heroics.

Laura Winters has a nice tail.

o man, i just started watching this and its unbearable, hopefully it gets better.but i doubt it knowing old horror films

cynsemele true but i can just buy the dvd on line dude!

When AMC reran this, I videotaped it, so I don't have to fret about a DVD player yet. I'm afraid I won't be able to hook up the thing and still use my beloved VCR. I am soooo tech-challenged!
So, I now have "The Flesh Eaters", at least AMC's version, however clipped it might be. I'd still love to see a complete version.
Blu Ray?! I have no idea what that is, let alone understanding the rest of it, so I'll have to steer clear and try for the old-style DVD player, with hopes of someday finding "TFE". Thanks to watching Off Beat Cinema (Channel 18), my "want list" is expanding, what with them showing commercial-packed versions of such wonders as "The Crawling Hand" and "Mesa of Lost Women".
VHS tapes unwatchable?! I have tapes that are 25 years old and still hold up, even for being taped-over. If I should lose my collection of films and TV series, I'd be heartbroken! So, just in case Knock on wood!!!
MystMoonstruck
Evie (tipsily): "I know what you're thinking: What's a place like me doing~~in a girl like this?!"~The Mummy

You don't own a DVD player yet? WOW! You can buy a decent one for less than $70. I've owned 6 or 7 DVD players/recorders in the last 8 years. I'd buy a Panasonic and give my JVC to a friend or relative.
I've heard that Blu Ray Players can play regular DVD's and convert them to semi 1080i(very sharp video quality). I hope that's true because I own a ton of DVD's and it would be a shame for them to go to waste. I should watch my VHS tapes, too. In 10-15 years, they'll be unwatchable!
Blu Ray Players are still kind of expensive. The most afforable ones(as of April 2008)are around $400.
I've heard that HD DVD players are going to be discontinued.

I just saw this on AMC, and I want a copy soooo much! I kept thinking that this film might have inspired filmmakers. When the huge creature picks up the guy, who then shoots the blood into its eye, I thought of Treat Williams in "Deep Rising". The opening, with the topless girl in the water, made me think of "Jaws", with Susan Blacklinie's nude swim in the shark-infested waters. Maybe I watch too many movies, but other films kept coming to mind with various scenes.
I'm really impressed with this one! For a low-budget film, it came across far better than many others that had more money and a name cast to work with. For example, I re-watched "Village of the Damned", the color remake, and had my opinion of it verified. I really tried to give it a chance, but "The Flesh Eaters" is better! Martin Kosleck made a very good villain, which isn't so surprising.
I admit to liking low-budget, bottom-shelf films. If there's a cult following for this, I'm joining up! I'll watch AMC listings so that I can videotape it next time. If I ever get a DVD player, this definitely is going into my collection!

I watched it last night on AMC. It was worth staying up until 3:30 to see the ending. Sure, it is not without its problems but it is also strangely compeling.
After reading one of the reviews and some of these postings about the making of the picture and some deleted scenes, it is all the more interesting. As one reviewer has already stated the camera work is very fine. A regular "Citizen Kane". It really tries to do something with the camera.
It also reminded me of other movies as another expressed, "Attack of the Crab Monsters" and "She Devils".

The Low Budget bottom shelf ones are the best
I love watching this flick it is considered one of the first gore films
the opening is great I wish that Joe Bob Briggs was hosting AMC's Fear Friday

I just saw this on AMC, and I want a copy soooo much! I kept thinking that this film might have inspired filmmakers. When the huge creature picks up the guy, who then shoots the blood into its eye, I thought of Treat Williams in "Deep Rising". The opening, with the topless girl in the water, made me think of "Jaws", with Susan Blacklinie's nude swim in the shark-infested waters. Maybe I watch too many movies, but other films kept coming to mind with various scenes.
I'm really impressed with this one! For a low-budget film, it came across far better than many others that had more money and a name cast to work with. For example, I re-watched "Village of the Damned", the color remake, and had my opinion of it verified. I really tried to give it a chance, but "The Flesh Eaters" is better! Martin Kosleck made a very good villain, which isn't so surprising.
I admit to liking low-budget, bottom-shelf films. If there's a cult following for this, I'm joining up! I'll watch AMC listings so that I can videotape it next time. If I ever get a DVD player, this definitely is going into my collection!

I saw the last twenty minutes of The Flesh Eaters on AMC and I saw the whole film on DVD. The DVD preserves the letterboxed format. There's a gruesome, deleted scene where the flesh eating bacteria are tested on nude women! I've heard that there are alternate versions of TFE. In one version, there's a red tint added to the blood injected into the crab/octopus monster.
Spoilers:
The AMC version is missing the scene where the Nazi professor shoots himself in the head before the flesh eaters can finish him off. It was deleted for violent content, obviously.

Sorry, you have to settle for AMC. I watched it on the Monster channel, part of the Dish Network HD package. No commercials, no distracting on-screen logo and in HD, Barbara Wilkin looks even better, if that's possible.

Jan Letterman(Barbara Wilkin)is a cutie pie. I wish she was my girlfriend.

Cheesily compellinga wonder that it did not end up on MST 3K..or, did it???
cheers,Jerce

this ovie has a weird plot
First, the mad scientist is against them all and out to use them as guinea pigs
But then they all band together?
Makes no sense

The guy on the raft is awesome. I gotta finish this movie.