Marty examines the photo that Karl took of the second crab. Karl thinks that they are sending out waves of heat.
Hank asks how the crabs are destroying the island. Karl: “It’s as good a theory as any other to explain what’s happened.”.
Dale: “So that means the crab can eat its victim’s brain, absorbing his mind intact and working.”.Karl: “Yes, and their brain tissue, which after all is nothing more than a storage house for electrical impulses.”.
Marty: “Like the bodies of the dead men?”.Any matter, therefore, that the crab eats, will be assimilated in its body as like solid energy, becoming part of the crab.” Karl: “It’s like a mass of liquid with a permanent shape.Back at the lab, Karl finds that the crab’s molecular structure is “disrupted, with no cohesion between the atoms.” Jules’ voice proclaims that by killing the crab, they have destroyed McLean and all of that expedition. The creature is wisely kept in the darkness as much as possible. Everyone gathers to watch the plane take off, which doesn’t end well when the plane explodes. The first expedition was investigating until there was a storm and they disappeared. Martha (Marty) Hunter (Pamela Duncan) and Dale Drewer (Richard Garland) are biologists. Jules Deveraux (Mel Welles) is a botanist, Drs. Karl Weigand (Leslie Bradley) is a nuclear physicist and expedition leader, Dr. He describes the research team to the sailors: Dr. The island was in the path of radioactive fallout from the atomic bomb tests and the scientists came to study the effects. Hank (Russell Johnson) provides us with a quick exposition to set the stage. They are headed to the beach when thunderous noises start and the camera begins to shake. He is leaving on a seaplane and will pick them up later. Quinlan (Ed Nelson) comments that there are no animal noises of any kind. Meanwhile the scientists are setting up their equipment at the house. Two seamen, Fellows and Summers (Beach Dickerson and Tony Miller), are camping on the beach with demolition supplies and lots of (normal) crabs. One of the sailors manages to fall overboard and when they pull him up, his head is missing. The civilians head for a house on the cliff while another supply raft approaches. Maybe their bodies are gone, but who can tell of their souls, eh? Maybe if I call to them they will answer, their ghosts will answer. Jules : I’m not so sure you are right, Monsieur Quinlan. In response to an observation that the island seems desolate, we are treated to this existential statement (the first of several): McLean, that disappeared from the island. They are looking for a previous group of scientists, led by Dr. We begin with a voiceover quote from The Bible:Īnd the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them.” Genesis 6:7, King James version Ī raft comes ashore with both sailors and civilians, including one beautiful woman (it is the Fifties, after all). It's all you can eat crab legs, cheap but delicious for the seafood horror lover in you.An uncredited Paul Julian created the animated title sequences for many Corman movies. Played entirely straight, the thought of giant, telepathic crabs hellbent on world domination dares you to keep a straight face the duration of the "Tidal Wave of Terror" promised by the film's trailer. A lot more fun than you'd expect it to be due to the unapologetically ludicrous premise. There's action, some brief gore, and bad special effects aplenty. The Short Version: Seven years before he was marooned on Gilligan's Island, Russell Johnson was part of another expedition that ends up trapped on an island dominated by gigantic, atomically enhanced crabs with both the gift of gab and a taste for human flesh. James Carson), Beach Dickerson (Ron Fellows), Charles Griffith (Tate), Maitland Stuart (Mac), David Arvedon (voice of Hoolar the Giant Crab) Karl Weigand), Mel Welles (Jules Deveroux), Richard H. Richard Garland (Dale Drewer), Pamela Duncan (Martha Hunter), Russell Johnson (Hank Chapman), Leslie Bradley (Dr.
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