Tuesday, June 21, 2016

366 Days at the Drive-In: Day 265


The Date: June 21
The Movie: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
What Is It?: Roger excelled at making weird movies, so it’s no small thing to say that Attack of the Crab Monsters is one of his weirdest. Nuclear radiation from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests not only makes crabs grow to requisite 1950s sci-fi proportions but also makes them absorb the brains of dead people, thereby acquiring intelligence, telepathic communication skills, the ability to cause landslides, and bizarre human-like faces. What makes this weirder than, say, The Little Shop of Horrors or Creature from the Haunted Sea is the seriousness with which it’s all played.
Why Today?: Today is the first day of that crabby cancer star sign.
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