"Helmed by one-time director Jack Curtis (better known for his voice work in such 60s animated favorites as “Speed Racer”), THE FLESH EATERS is an independently-made science fiction/horror masterpiece that’s everything a low budget film should be. It’s original, creative, well acted (that is, well overacted), and directed as if it was storyboarded from an old EC comic book. Known for its early use of gore effects in the days before they were common, the term “cult classic” is an understatement for THE FLESH EATERS, as it was one of the most bootlegged videos of its type, and naturally, one of the most desired films of its type to be released on DVD.
On the city docks, Jan Letterman (Barbara Walken) makes a generous cash offer to pilot Grant Murdoch (Byron Sanders) if he’ll fly her and her employer, alcoholic stage and screen actress Laura Winters (Rita Morley), to Provincetown. In spite of a threatening storm on the way, Murdoch agrees, but they are soon forced to land the plane on what looks like an uninhabited island. The trio quickly comes face to face with the island’s only inhabitant, a marine biologist named Peter Bartell (Martin Kosleck), who claims he’s there to study shellfish. But skinless skeletons and tarnished fish remains cause them to believe there’s more here than meets the eye, and that Bartell is hiding something. All around them, flickering organisms christened “flesh eaters” are living in the ocean and are able to devour human skin faster than a piranha. Soon another character, a free-spirited beatnik named Omar (Ray Tudor) nearly gets eaten alive before he makes it to the shore, and with their plane now drifted out to sea and no means of rescue in sight, our five castaways are in life and death situation, not only in fending off hungry monsters, but also in trying to withstand each other.
Like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD some years later, THE FLESH EATERS is a tense little black and white horror flick that exceeds the constraints of its budget with more than enough thrills and remarkably innovative bloody effects. The plotline, dialog and acting are deliciously over the top, so anyone searching for logic or Shakespearean performance search elsewhere: this is sheer entertainment of the utmost “chiller theater” variety. The “flesh eaters” are mainly seen as round organisms drifting in the water or attaching themselves to human skin. This effect was created by physically pinholing the film’s negative, and the results are pretty unforgettable. These little critters later develop into two separate (and huge) beach ball monstrosities with crab-like arms and a gooey singular eyeball. All this was shot on location in the New York area, most of it in part of Jones Beach, not at all too far from where I reside on Long Island. Filmed over a period of several years in the early 60s, it was not released theatrically until 1964." - George R. Reis, dvddrive-in.com
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