It's fitting that a movie as sleazy as this movie is number "69" this year. Seriously, the characters in this movie are all so trashy I think I got herpes just from watching it. I've seen this before, but something keeps dragging me back to this horrible little flick.
The movie is about a lake in a small town where some brutal deaths occur, and it turns out that the lake is infested with giant leeches (well, "infested" is a strong word, since I think there's only two of them). The movie does8even really try to explain how the leeches grew to giant size. There's a throwaway line about how "radioactive activity" could affect animals and make them giant (ok player) but wouldn't that have made all the leeches giant, not just two of them? Whatever.
Soon the sleazy residents of the town are disappearing, and the town drunk tries to tell everyone about the giant leeches, but no one listens to him. The sherriff is particularly useless. He does nothing but scoff and make wisecracks about how stupid the scientist is when he suggests that the leeches might be real. He offers no alternative explanation, though, so whatever dude.
The special effects are really really bad. Like I mean REALLY bad. Like black garbage bags with "suckers" made out of cardboard and egg carton cups bad. Like I cod probably make a better CV costume when I was drunk. The cool bit is how the leeches drag their victims alive into an underwater cave (wait, what? That makes no sense!) Ok, so the plot is stupid, but imagining the leeches keeping their victims alive and feeding off them for days is really creepy. And seeing the lifeless bodies floating up to the surface of the lake is actually kind of creepy. So yeah, this movie is horrible, but it's a FUN kind of horrible.
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