Christopher drake in the flesh eaters 1964 ray tudor in the flesh eaters. Strangers searching for a young womans missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead. The flesh eaters is a 1964 american horrorscience fiction thriller, directed on a low budget by jack curtis and edited by future filmmaker radley metzger. This thoroughly weird but truly inspired monster flick is one of the earliest gore films to splatter across drivein screens in the years. The flesh eaters was a renegade indie production directed by voice over actor and occasional cinematographer jack curtis. Downtrodden pilot grant murdoch byron sanders agrees to fly actress laura winters rita morley and her assistant, jan letterman barbara wilkin, to provincetown after she offers him three times the usual stipend. On the most evil night of the year, a beautiful blonde woman and a hit man find themselves trapped in a forest haunted by bizarre, flesh eating demon zombies. A white scratch would show up as a black one in printing, and the flesh eaters, as i recall, are white squiggles. The flesh eaters 1964 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Arrows blu ray had an option to choose which one you want when you fire up the disc. The film contains moments of violence much more graphic and extreme than many other movies of its time, making it one of the first ever gore films. The flesh eaters 1964 directed by jack curtis genres. A washedup actress and her assistant are forced by a storm to land on a small island, which is inhabited by a united states government agentturnednazi scientist who has bred a species of microbes capable of devouring a human within seconds.
Movies like the flesh eaters if you like the flesh eaters you are looking for scary, offbeat and serious movies about with survival, island, zombie, androids and robots, plague, mutant and evil alien themes of horror and scifi genre shot in usa. On the most evil night of the year, a beautiful blond woman and ruggedly handsome archeologist hitman find themselves trapped in a forest haunted by bizarre flesh eating native american demon zombies. Watch night of the flesh eaters full movie free online. The flesh eaters 1964 downtrodden pilot grant murdoch byron sanders agrees to fly actress laura winters rita morley and her assistant, jan letterman barbara wilkin, to provincetown after. The story starts with a hunky hired charter pilot byron sanders flying. The plot finds a besotted movie star rita morley and her entourage trapped. They are the most prominent of the bands which have showcased the compositions and singing of their founder, punk poet chris desjardins, best known as chris d. This fun, endearingly trashy bmovie gem is one of the bestkept secrets in cult movie fandom. A zombie is found aboard a boat off the new york coast which belongs to a famous scientist.
Severed limbs bites to the jugular bites to the face skin evisceration topless diving eye impalement cannibalism partial decapitation w brain exposure fullfrontal headshots director lucio fulci is a visionary of genre. With james lemire, gia franzia, david rosenhaus, jessica alexandra green. The plot finds a besotted movie star rita morley and her entourage trapped on an island surrounded by aquatic fleshmunching amoebas represented by scratches on the film emulsion created by mad scientist peter bartell. At its heart, it is an old fashioned voodoo zombie film. A few seconds later she starts screaming as we see her flesh being eaten away. Released 1964, the flesh eaters stars rita morley, martin kosleck, byron sanders, barbara wilkin the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 32 min, and received a score of out of 100 on metacritic. The original graveyard zombie from director george a. A hardbitten, downonhisluck charter pilot byron sanders is hired by an alcoholic movie actress rita morley and her nubile personal. Trailer for jack curtis scifi thriller containing moments of violence much more graphic and extreme than many other movies of its time, making.
The story starts with a hunky hired charter pilot byron sanders flying a middleaged alcoholic actress rita morley and her young. I know it goes by 3 names most commonly zombie flesh eaters, zombie, and zombi 2. Romeros night of the living dead returns to stalk a group of funloving teenagers taking a halloween hayride. Ah, the mighty zombie flesh eaters aka zombie, aka zombi 2, and apparently aka woodoo. The flesh eaters 1964 trailer comedy, horror, scifi. Written by arnold drake 1964, region 1 ntsc, 87 minutes, not rated dvd released on october 25th, 2005.
The plot finds a besotted movie star rita morley and her entourage trapped on an island surrounded by aquatic fleshmunching amoebas represented by scratches on the film emulsion created by mad scientist peter bartell martin kosleck. When the film opens, the camera follows a taxi driving on a wide highway in new. From the sleazy video nasty vaults comes a movie so stained with controversy and moral indignation that the very mention of its name sends shudders down the spines of the weak stomached and censorious. The flesh eaters lands square in my wheelhouse, independent blackandwhite, low budget horror. The flesh eaters photos view all photos 3 movie info. As jack curtiss sole directorial movie he died in 1970 at 44 of.
The pair soon find themselves under attack from the zombies. The flesh eaters can be called one of the first true gore films. The budget was apparently painfully low witness the fact that the flesh eaters are represented by holes punched in the film, or by that other great standby, dry ice dropped in water. With tisa farrow, ian mcculloch, richard johnson, al cliver. Overview of the flesh eaters, 1964, directed by jack curtis, with martin kosleck, rita morley, byron sanders, at turner classic movies. While sprinting zombies were briefly exciting back in the early 2000s, the shuffle zombie will always reign supreme and this is a shining example of the genre. The flesh eaters 1964 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. They find a squalid, cramped interior aboard the yacht, filled. On the caribbean island of matul, white doctor david menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Byron sanders as grant murdock barbara wilkin as jan letterman rita morley as laura winters ray tudor as omar.
A hardbitten, downonhisluck charter pilot byron sanders is hired by an alcoholic movie actress rita. The flesh eaters 1964 unrated 87 min comedy, horror, scifi 18 march 1964 usa a group of young adults are trapped on a desert island only to find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh eating organisms. It can be described as outbreak meets gilligans island. Movies from the madhouse presents zombie flesh eaters 1979 duration. The flesh eaters is neither better nor worse than any other independent shocker of the time. A journalist travels to the antilles with the daughter of the scientist. With martin kosleck, byron sanders, barbara wilkin, rita morley. Tisa farrow, ian mcculloch, richard johnson certificate. The flesh eaters 1964 feature comedy, horror, scifi video. Zombie flesheaters strong uncut version zombie 1979. Zombie flesh eaters was made as an italian ripoff of george a.
Watch the flesh eaters 1964 full movie free online. Movies like zombie flesh eaters 1979 nazi zombies 2012 house of psychotic women 1974 dead alive 1992 platoon of the dead 2009 strangler vs strangler 1984 the brain leeches 1978 moonchild 1994 first vampire in china 1986 black mass of the nazi sex wizard 2015. Although initially funded to be an intentional ripoff of dawn of the dead and indeed marketed as. The flesh eaters 1964 unrated 87 min comedy, horror, scifi 18 march 1964 usa. Simply put, the flesh eaters offers everything one could want from a drivein flick of this era. A group of young adults trapped on a desert island find the water inhabited by a violent form of flesh eating organisms. Are there actually any differences in the footage between the three editions. Tisa farrow, ian mcculloch, richard johnson nasties. Arriving on the island are anne and reporter peter west who are looking for annes missing father. Or is just the title screen different between them, and the movie footage itself is the same. Romeros dawn of the dead even billed as a sequel in some parts but its influences go further back than that to the earliest days of zombie cinema, in fact.
Flesh eaters chapter colour scheme as displayed by a firstborn space marine little is known about the origin of the flesh eaters beyond their descent from the blood angels, save for the fact that they were already active at the close of the 33 rd millennium, when they joined the pentarchy of blood that ended the war of the false primarch by exterminating eleven rebellious chapters and razing. Arnold drake, an underappreciated but extremely talented comic book writer, crafted the screenplay. An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad weather, where a renegade nazi scientist is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh. Also appearing is barbara wilkin i saw what you did, rita morley the edge of night, and ray tudor, whose only other film credit is a movie titled five the. The inventive scenario does a great job of distracting the audience from the limited production values with a. The flesh eaters 1964 stream and watch online moviefone.
An abandoned yacht floats into new york waters prompting the harbour patrol to investigate. Fulllength with nazi experimentation scene personally readded spliced into the film by me at the point which i thought it best and obviously belongs. Usa when a hurricane forces a small plane to land on an island, the pilot and his two passengers find themselves trapped there with a mysterious scientist. Daily grindhouse doin the nasties zombie flesh eaters. As they flee the womans crime boss husband, who seeks to murder them for their illicit love.
There are also other optical effects in those scenes the glowing effect, so obviously those shots were taken to an optical house, which could have easily inserted the flesh eaters at the same time. The flesh eaters are the main antagonists of the 1964 american horror film the flesh eaters. The flesh eaters uncut version 1964 rare movie collector. While desjardins is the groups only continual member, the flesh eaters lineup has drawn from some of the most famous bands of. The tiny flesheating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money and lives.
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