Attack of the Beast Creatures
Attack of the Beast Creatures
| 12 July 1985 (USA)
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A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. A living hell breaks loose when the survivors encounter gruesome, flesh-eating Beast Creatures!

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
gpeltz Oh my, it's the, Attack of the beast creatures, (1985) Directed by Michael Stanley, and written by Robert A. Hutton. Spoiler Alert ahead. Not long ago, I was trying to define Cheesy, when it came to movies. I think I've got it. This effort might as well acknowledge the Truth in packaging laws, and call itself, Attack of the puppet hunter dolls. OK, the gimmick worked in Trilogy of Terror (1975) so now we have an island full of them.I have to hand it to this rag tag group of actors, putting their best to make this nonsense, So what have we here? A lifeboat with a handful of survivors, Five guys and Four woman. A usual bland assortment. None of them are schooled in survival skills, nor in self defense. There are the good guys; Robert Nolfi plays John, pals with Case and Phillip, as played by Robert Lengyel and Frank Murgalo, We can tell they are the good guys, they wear ties, halfway through the production. Nobody likes Mr. Morgan played by Robert Furgelusky, No one player memorable, How could they be, given the material they had to work with. I pity the fools. Same could be said for the woman. Underwritten and devoid of personality, save for Mrs Gordon, played by Kay Baily, who everyone likes. The other woman, Cathy and Diane, played by Julia Rust, and Lisa Pac, mostly are called upon to scream and run. Did I mention banal dialogue? "Look, there goes Bill running down the hill, No, don't Stop" They manage to pull off the non monster sequences, hoping that when it comes down to it. the effects won't look as phony as the toys they have to work with. They spin around with these rag dolls taped on them, and act like they are fighting off a savage attack. I am reminded of Lugosi fighting off the rubber Octopus prop,in a swamp. The gore scenes are blatantly phony. This could be said for all the effects in general, I saw the puppeteers hand manipulating the dolls, The "attacking dolls" are tossed haphazardly at the actors, while the sound artists try to figure out what these little hunters battle cry, should sound like. The effects do not match the look of the dolls, we hear the pitter patter of running feet, and the screechy sounds, none of which seem to fit the action. All the while the synthesized soundtrack by John P Mozzi, tries to find a tune to fit the picture, and fails miserably. . Cavernous sounds well up, Rick Wakeman style, and inappropriately. The organ does what a good soundtrack should not, it calls attention to itself, over the action. So this is cheesy On the plus side, the Acid water was an interesting display of originality, what was it doing here? A similar device was used in "The Life of Pi."(2012) The film constantly challenges common sense, and in that it is consistent. that is why the film makes compelling viewing. You find yourself wondering why the girls are still wearing jewelry so late in, why the men don't make weapons, or at least carry sticks. Why they don't find a strategy to fend off the attacks, Nothing nunca, none of the above. I give it Four out of Ten "Inane" Stars
Coventry 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.
slayrrr666 "Attack of the Beast Creatures" is a lot better creature feature than it should be expected.**SPOILERS**Crashing in the Atlantic, John Trieste, (Robert Nolfi) Cathy, (Julia Rust) Case Quinn, (Robert Lengyel) Phillip, (Frank Murgalo) Diane, (Lisa Pak) Pat, (Frans Kal) and Mrs. Gordon, (Kay Bailey) wash ashore on a deserted island and try to figure out where they are. Exploring the island, they find that it is inhabited by a strange creature that none of them have seen before. Frantic to get away after a particularly brutal attack, they soon suffer repeated attacks as their quest to get off gets more desperate. Finally finding a way off, even as their numbers go down, they to implement it before the creatures attack.The Good News: This here wasn't anywhere near as bad as expected and is a lot of fun. The film's biggest plus is the fact that it's creatures are relentless and absolutely unafraid to launch attack after attack. The last half of the film is pretty much a gigantic assault, since they never really leave and are constantly in the faces of the victims, and the sight of seeing them launch themselves again and again onto their victims is what is needed to make creatures with as much height difference between them into viable threats. After a while, it begins to wear on that something could as dangerous as those that are in the film, due to the relentlessness and their ferocity in the attacks. These here are pretty much adverse to trying anything, from surprise attacks when they drop from the trees to the suspenseful type where they all converge to attack them and then proceed to swarm. That also leads into the brilliant tactics, since they do swarm a few victims but are also content with trying out the bite and run style, which leads to a recurring gag with one victim where they continuously target one specific body area and just bite into it whenever they want to, and the continuous use of that tactic gives them a lot more intelligence than expected. The gore here is also quite nice, which builds from what they are capable of and really looks quite nice. In addition to several of them being continually swarmed, leading to numerous bite marks and wounds all over the body, one is tripped up and lands stomach first on a sharpened branch sticking out of the ground, another has their leg bitten off, another has their body continually bitten into and devoured, one is found eaten all the way down to the skeleton and the big one is when one decides to wash their face with acidic water, melting their skin off and turning their face into a gigantic pile of red crimson goo that looks incredibly disgusting. The last big feature is the impressive atmosphere, since this one does have some great scenes built around that. The jungle search early on is really great, since there's always a feeling that something is going on but it plays the suspense off in the search to discover what is there. That is a great tactic and is done perfectly. A later scene, where the creatures first attack, is a stand-out, due to the fact that they are first seen with just the glowing eyes appearing in the distance, and slowly it becomes obvious that more and more eyes are showing up, and it really builds up expertly. From there the attack is launched, and it works due to the atmospheric build-up. All of these factors make the film so much fun.The Bad News: This here did have a few flaws with it, and most of those are centered around it's creatures. The little creatures in the film aren't that bad when they merely stand there and watch the events unfold, such as the scenes of them standing in the trees or before launching attacks, but the fact that they look terrible when in action is only confirmed to be little puppets that are nowhere near as threatening as the look suggests. As brutal as the gore is, it's only this way due to how ridiculously cheesy the creatures look in the film. The other flaw would be the cheese, which is mostly linked to the tolerance of the creature puppets. As they get a lot of screen-time at the end, it becomes even cheesier than expected, and that's due to how they look like in the scenes, which at times is laugh-inducing. These are the main things that keep the film down.The Final Verdict: This is a lot better than expected, though it's still a rather cheesy film that doesn't really have any right to be. It's there mostly for most of the cheesy creature feature fans out there, while this one will only turn off those who aren't that big on the style to begin with.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language
s_gerald This is one of the most horrid movies I have ever seen and we have had some real stinkers at my Universitie's bad movie night. Truly this ranks with such horrid cinematic effluence such as "Robot Monster" which at least had the benefit of being fun to watch, this atrocious affair does not even have that going for it, and the puppet animation has to be seen to be believed it is just that terrible. The acting switches from absent to way way overdone, and the setting is obviously Eastern US and not a tropical island. The film stock itself seems to have problems, and there is no lighting except for natural light sources in each scene so some parts of the movie have almost no light in them at all. To top it off filters are sometimes put on and removed from the camera in the same scene. Even if you are a fan of terrible films stay far far away from this film as it lacks the qualities that make other such films fun to watch.