Attack of the Beast Creatures

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I LOVE a good low-budget horror movie. Thing is it needs to be good. Here, we have a movie that looks like it has a budget of $250 and yes that includes the FX. We enter the story as a group of people have been shipwrecked and so they drift aimlessly through the water in their lifeboat named Obelisk. Soon they hit land after the credits end and due to brutal lighting what looks like angry, spoiled sausages attack them in the night. By first light we see they actually look like ravenous, haunted dolls. Time to try and stay alive. The music by John P. Mozzi is actually quite effective and way better than this movie deserves. Super bad acting by almost everyone in this movie. Might be good to sit down with a good friend with some of your favourite beers and/or whiskey and get some good laughs. Otherwise steer clear.

Man, sometimes a film does turn out to be as good as you've been told, and this is one of them. If you're in the mood for a low budget horror film involving tiny, but deadly creatures attacking a cast of bad actors, you can't go wrong here. Set in the 1920s, we find our unlucky lot escaping a sinking ship and ending up on a strangely tropical island (in the North Atlantic!). One of them is badly injured and left on the beach while the others head inland to find food and shelter. At first this place looks like a good place to wait for rescue, but it soon becomes apparent that the group have to stay on their toes, as one guy, thinking he's found fresh water, dips his face into what turns out to be highly corrosive acid, with gory results. The rest of the group are now treading lightly, although they manage to find food and camp down for the night, things take a turn for the worst as they are attacked by the title creatures – tiny beasts with razor sharp teeth (who look like miniature death metal fans!). This is where the film really takes off as our group of folk have to fend of constant attacks by these little nut-cases, who put the bite on all of the cast (leading to hilarious shots of various actors fighting off these little models). For some reason, even though these creatures are badly made models who have movable arms and teeth, still manage to come across as quite menacing as there seems to be an infinite amount of them. Such a sight watching these things run through the undergrowth, growl at the cast from trees, and swing from vines like Tarzan. While not overly gory, the film does expand on the creatures' attacks as they employ traps to catch their prey so it doesn't become a mere exercise is the cast being stalked. This is the kind of film you'll either love for it's cheapness and bad acting or you'll hate it for the same reasons. It gets a recommendation from me.

I'm back with another review and boy do I have a movie for you guys and gals. If you are into grade Z flicks that are so bad there good look no further than Attack of the Beast Creatures!!! This flick really lived up to what I had heard about it lets take a look. The movie starts off with a ship going down with a group of people who survive taking a rowboat and landing on the worst possible island they can land on "Beast Creature Central". The people try to find a way to signal in another boat or plane to rescue them. From there things get crazy as the BCs attack, fun ensues for the audience. The first 30 minutes of this movie is the worst part of the film as it lulls around with bad acting and so called "character development" and despite one cool sequence where a guy decides to bath in an acid pool, which I would not highly recommend, much of nothing happens. However once we get past this and the night falls on our rejects from Survivor some of the coolest action in Z movie history hits the screen. BC's jump,run,bite,claw and do anything they can to take down our castaways. The cool thing is that some of the effects are just downright funny. The coolest to me is watching those little guys go. When they run they move their arms back and forth in the most crazy way...you have to see it to understand. Not only do these guys do all that I've mentioned above but they can set traps (which plays a key factor on 2 of our members late in the film). Man I love these little guys!! If they were real id want one as a pet (tamed of course). Anyway as far as some of the other sequences well....who cares this movie is not about its sub par cast but those darn BCs. If this movie was graded on acting alone this would be a bad, bad movie however this is not what this film was made for and on a Z grade budget you have to give these guys some credit...kudos to the effects guys on this one. Though the BCs looks like someone is throwing them when they're jumping and when they latch on to their victims it looks like the victims are latching on to them it just doesn't matter its what is all apart of this flicks charm!! In the end what can I say I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. If you like pint sized horror, like the last story of the made-for-TV movie Trilogy of Terror, or are just into so- bad-there-good movies give this movie a look. Though it is VERY VERY hard to find it will be worth your hunt!! 6/10 Cult Classic.....If only that first 30 minutes could have been better this would have gotten an even better review however it is one of the best Z grade flicks I've seen give these ankle biters a try!!! No DVD release has been given to this film (and who knows if there ever will be) however if you can get in touch with the guys at CryptFlicks who specialize in hard to find movies (usually they are at horror conventions and the like) their copy looks very good considering it was from a VHS source.

Dolls?! No beast creatures. An island tribe. Looking no bigger 30cms high. With long black stringy hair. Sharp pointy teeth. Howling screech and growl. Piercing eyes that glow in the dark. Persistently quick off the mark and these nasty critters love the taste of human flesh. Tasty! Well a group of survivors of a sunken cruise ship soon find out that had a better chance taking the odds of staying alive on the water, than what they encounter on an uncharted tropical island. "Attack of the Beast Creatures" is a limited on the cheap production that feels at times like nothing more than a made on the spot home movie, but it's charmingly fun and rather unpleasant in details. The odd story is slight and considerably basic with a stretched out feel… it's a survival outing. Wander here, get attack. Wander there, a nasty surprise waits. Aimlessly wander, get attack… but despite the repetitiveness and slow-pace it's actually well catered for its z-budget. The punchy attacks are quite savage and hysterical, if a little too drawn out that it can be humorous watching the actors struggle about fighting off motionless dolls gnawing away at them. But the crusty make-up FX creates some unbearable images of cheap gore (just watch what acid can do to you!) and creatures (which do look great!) are extremely well presented and photographed when in action. Plenty of lurking POV shots. Sometimes the pacing would stall with padded out dialogue exchanges (where the characters would open up to each other), but the amateurishly raw performances (falling on the bland side, but still admirably committed) don't invoke all that much from the stilted script. As for that whimsical electronic music score, it might have been schlock but it really did grow on me during the darker moments. The locations that were used (Fairfield, Connecticut masquerading as an island) makes good use of the situation, cementing a remote and disorienting spell with its thick, rugged terrain that simply saps the life of the survivors. Defects aside, it's enjoyable minimalist film-making worthy of its cult status.

With a title like ATTACK OF THE BEAST CRETURES you're certainly not expecting CITIZEN KANE but even with very low expectations this is a dreadful movie and what let's it down is the technical aspects . " What technical aspects Theo? " Exactly . From the very opening frame of the film you know you're going to be watching a shipwreck of a movie In fact everything about the film can be summed up by the opening . We have a totally inappropriate soundtrack played on a synthesiser . Michael Mann's THE KEEP also a bizarre soundtrack that feels it belongs to an entirely different movie but at least that film redeemed itself by some great cinematography and camera work . Here it seems the director took his mates on a day trip to the beach . Everything about the movie screams amateur film maker Perhaps the most noticeable thing is the acting or rather the lack of it . I genuinely thought this was an Italian movie badly dubbed in to English . It's certain ly got that vibe where any emotion or inflexion in the voices is totally negated by other people calmly talking their lines as in " Oh no I'm being attacked by a horde of monsters mercy me " in the same sort of tone you'd expect someone to read out their laundry list The only saving grace - and I'm being totally charitable here - is the eponymous beast creatures themselves . It would be very easy for the director to get a bunch of extras to don wigs and pretend to be flesh eating monsters . Here we have what effectively fairground gonks that attack the cast and who are less wooden than the cast which means this movie gets three out of ten instead of two out of ten

Bunch of shipwrecked travelers - who all left their acting capacities aboard the sinking ship - wash ashore an unmapped island that isn't entirely kosher. First and foremost, it's a tropical island even though they were supposed to float in the North Atlantic. Secondly, the still water on this island causes people to dissolve painfully! Quite an alarming little fact, if you ask me, but the assembly of middle-aged castaway survivors remain pretty damn calm at the sight of one of their buddies bloodily melting away in a puddle of water. "Well, I guess this means we all have to be a lot more careful from now on". That's it? Thanks for the grief and compassion, dude! Anyway, it's not over yet, as the island appears to be inhabited by some sort of creatures that can eat all the flesh off a human body and leave only a clean skeleton in just an hour of time. Overnight, the group gets virulently attacked by an army of tiny, flashy-eyed satanic creatures (very reminiscent to Karen Black's Zuni doll in "Trilogy of Terror") and "Attack of the Beast Creatures" promptly becomes one of the silliest, cheesiest and most ludicrous horror flicks of the entire 80's decade. These things are so cute! How they stampede, the squeaky sounds they produce, their admirably sharp little set of teeth … I swear, if you see one, you'll want to have a toy version to decorate your living room with! You can say a lot about "Attack of the Beast Creatures", but definitely not that it's boring! One out-and-out crazy sequence follows the other in a massively fast-paced filming style and you don't even have too much time to contemplate about the stupidity factor or to expect any sort of explanation. The film properly follows Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians principle; meaning the characters kick the bucket one by one and in a structured and orderly fashion. The group also contains all the required stereotypes, like the selfish bastard, the hysterical broad, the young lovers and the fat bloke sacrificing himself. There's a joyous sequence paying tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" when one of the characters wanders around and the critters surrounding her in up in the trees gradually increase in number. First there's just one specimen scrutinizing her. Then three. Then seven. Then when she looks up there are literally dozens of little demons watching down on her. "Attack of the Beast Creatures" may not exactly be a masterpiece of film-making, but it's tremendously enjoyable 80's baloney with loads of gore, outrageous outbursts of laughter, inane dialogs and not the slightest bit of good taste.

Why 1920? Who said that would be a good Idea? Why does nothing about this movie make sense? Was this movie meant to be seen by humans? I have some more questions regarding Attack Of The Beast Creatures. But I'm certainly not holding out for any answers. I'm not sure what I was expecting from this one, but the type of peculiar offered here kind of caught me off guard. Now I've seen a lot of interesting/unique/obscure/terrible Z-grade cinema in my day. Hundreds, in fact, but something tells me this one's one of a kind. The ineptness of it all. The fakeness of those... things!! But really, what I find most peculiar about Attack Of The Beast Creatures is that I actually kinda loved it. We begin with the survivors of a sunken ship, who barely make it to an uncharted Island. This island appears to be quiet, and empty, so their only concern now is to quickly find water and nourishment, any water they manage to find turns out to be acid (the bad kind) and on top of that, this island isn't so empty after all. This Island is the home of hundreds of vicious, little fake-looking/flesh-eating creatures, who have recently discovered the walking buffet, who have unknowingly invaded their territory. That's right, Beast Creatures. Nothing, and I mean nothing about these damn things say "I'm a living being." Just a bunch of little dolls with red skin, and white eyes, that people behind the camera toss towards the cast, who unconvincingly pretend the things are biting them. despite being alive, the cast is even less convincing than the Beast Creatures. I don't know if they thought people had brain-damage in 1920, or these people were actually brain-damaged, in that case, I suppose we should be impressed, other than that, I don't know, there's just something a little "off" about everything in this one. Kinda like in Troll 2. If you haven't seen that one, see it!! nevermind the first one. Anyway, I only speak negatively of this the beast creatures because the negativity is more than obvious. It's all in good fun. The truth is, complete and utter cluelessness of Attack of the Beast Creatures intrigues me to no end. And it's hilarious. Yeah, I'm one of those people. Can't help it. As soon as I read about it, I knew it would be amazing. Lucky for me, I still have a VCR. How about a DVD release? Maybe with some Joe Bob Briggs audio commentary. I think that would be keen. If hearing of the awkward ineptness of this freak-of-nature doesn't scare you off, then you're probably feeling a little curious. If that be the case, go with it. Definitely worth the search, and the price. You won't be sorry... Well, maybe a little. 8/10

The plot of "Attack of the Beast Creatures" is relatively simple:a group of castaways land on a mysterious and deserted North Atlantic island with trees and deadly acidic water.The island is inhabited by flesh-eating critters that promptly start killing survivors.Badly acted and amateurish horror flick that is strangely compelling and entertaining.There is a lot of walking in "Attack of the Beast Creatures",so patience is needed.The dialogue is outrageously banal,but the attack scenes are hilarious and bloody enough.The tiny wooden dolls are cute and they provide plenty of campy entertainment.They hide in the trees and run through grass like crazy in pursuit of their screaming victims.Nasty little natives,I kid ya not.Give this obscure little creature feature a look.8 out of 10.

I have in the past seen terrible reviews of this flick, I could never figure out why. I can see via other comments that this movie isn't as hated as I once thought. True the budget is almost non-existent, but considering the results, the director is a genius. The film is generally creepy throughout, some of the scenes don't work...But surprisingly most do. You will be entertained, and really who could ask for more than that? A group of ship wreck survivors lands on an island in the middle of no where. Much of the islands water will cause their flesh to dissolve!! A tribe of creepy, hungry little folk inhabit this island...And want to devour the survivors! Not a good day. Get this movie if you can and give it a watch. 7/10