Producer by Gene Corman (Roger was ep) but directed by Bernard Kowalski and written by Leo Gordon. Yvette Vickers, everyone’s favourite late 50s sci fi tramp, plays a tramp married to a fat man but who actually is having an affair. There’s a do-gooder park ranger hero who comes up against hostile locals - was John Jarrat in Dark Age a homage to this? He’s a Ken doll hero, so it’s great he’s played by an actor called Ken.
This is not a bad film. Okay that’s relative – there is too much bad acting (the hero park ranger and his wife are particularly bland), the creature effects are a bit silly, and the climax underwhelming (you keep waiting for the wife to be threatened and it never happens). But the structure is basically sound, there is some decent drama – the bit where its revealed some missing hicks are in fact alive and being kept captive by the leeches is creepy
NB If I’m not mistaken that’s Roger Corman playing the silent role of a sheriff deputy around the 11 minute mark
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