Featured Audience Ratings

• Bruce B

  
  Was really great to see this movie come out on DVD. I remember seeing this when I was growing up on Long Island. As a teen I used to enjoy going down to local waterfront and doing some crabbing, after seeing this I was a little wary and you would catch me down on the docks after dark… More
  Was really great to see this movie come out on DVD. I remember seeing this when I was growing up on Long Island. As a teen I used to enjoy going down to local waterfront and doing some crabbing, after seeing this I was a little wary and you would catch me down on the docks after dark for quite some time. This was a great drive in movie, The crabs were kind of cheap but all in all a good movie for the sci fi era. 3 1/2 stars 3-21-13

• Christopher H

  
  For a second-rate creature feature, "Attack of the Crab Monsters" manages to be a decently entertaining watch if viewed on a lazy afternoon. The film was directed by Roger Corman, who directed 55 movies in his career along with producing around 400, most of the film's… More
  For a second-rate creature feature, "Attack of the Crab Monsters" manages to be a decently entertaining watch if viewed on a lazy afternoon. The film was directed by Roger Corman, who directed 55 movies in his career along with producing around 400, most of the film's he worked on were very low-budget B-movies such as this one. Originally released as a double bill with another Corman sci-fi feature "Not of this Earth", the film has very bare-bones production value but juggles enough interesting ideas (such as the crabs absorbing the knowledge of it's victims) to make it respectably entertaining on it's own right. The acting is pretty standard for the character archetypes each one of the them is assigned to and the screenplay contains some really silly science but the film moves at such an efficient pace that it never fails to keep the viewers attention. The effects for the giant crabs are very cheap-looking and cheesy, which is probably why the movie sticks to mostly showing their arms or showing the whole crab in quick-edit shots. Overall, it is a decently entertaining 50's creature feature, but not the best.

• Matthew Y

  
  Roger Corman has directed 50 extremely low-budget films and produced nearly 400. You're gonna cover a lot of B-movie genre ground in that list. Attack of the Crab Monsters was his answer to the Giant Mutant Creature phenomenon of the 1950's. These films were mostly all… More
  Roger Corman has directed 50 extremely low-budget films and produced nearly 400. You're gonna cover a lot of B-movie genre ground in that list. Attack of the Crab Monsters was his answer to the Giant Mutant Creature phenomenon of the 1950's. These films were mostly all awful and the best was 1954's Them! and it wasn't even close. Attack of the Crab Monsters is exactly what you'd expect, poor acting, corny screenplay and wishy washy creature effects which you only see in quickly edited brief glances. Corman's films were always about making cheap B-movies on practically no-budget and turning a profit. Roger Corman's a great director and managed to make a few high-quality features despite the production limitations. Why he never branched out into mainstream films I'll never know but he did established his own underground empire of low-budget moneymaking film productions. Attack of the Crab Monsters is simply one of the more forgettable ones.