The Leech Woman

1st Edward Dein Look past the cheap sets and the colonialism (and they are hard to look past, I know) and The Leech Woman is a cut above the usual B horror film of the era. In no small part, it’s thanks to the character work it gives Coleen Gray as June, an alcoholic…

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Director Edward Dein's enjoyably mean-spirited little 1960 horror flick is a lot of fun, especially the home stretch. Coleen Gray gives it her all, in a variation of one of those tragic 'youth potion' storylines. "Old women always give me the creeps." So in this one,…

Mandrakegray

Spoilers ahead. Much like Kurt Neumann's incredible She Devil from just a few years earlier, The Leech Woman is a horror movie about what happens when a woman gets control over the one thing that gives her power in society: her appearance. In both films, that control comes…

sakana1

“Old women always give me the creeps.” The Secret of Rejuvenation Drink your husband’s pineal gland fluid to become hot again! Woman with a drinking problem goes to see her rude endocrinologist husband who hates her face. A 140 year old woman goes to see the same rude…

Gentry Austin

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 VERSION: The Leech Woman is a middle of the road episode with some pretty decent riffs. This one took place in Season 8 about a season and a half after Mike took over as host, and shortly after Bill Corbett started voicing the part of Crow. …

Xeremy Hall 🟠🟢🔵

The stereotype of '50s and early '60s sci-fi tends toward either "Gee whiz" goofiness or Cold War paranoia, but I don't think the era gets nearly enough credit for sheer nastiness. There's a lot of great stuff from this time frame that's powered by bone-deep spite and…

Ira Brooker

While waiting for my house to sell....my massive 2000 plus DVD collection is boxed up and sitting at my mom's house....one of my son's stopped his Netflix account so no free streaming movies anymore.....I have seen all the movies in my local RedBox.....so what do I do? Go…

UltimateMovieRankings

A doctor with the worst bedside manner imaginable tricks his alcoholic wife into venturing into the African jungle with him so she can be, unbeknownst to her, a blood sacrifice to unlock the secret of immortality. Whatever the actual intentions behinds making The Leech…

MushiMinion

It is exactly as advertised. An easy target for Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Svengoolie over the years, but it’s really not a terrible movie, and it’s one of the first in the genre to address a very real horror: growing old.

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