Leeches

My take on this flick is that it's intended as a parody of some of the sexploitation movies of the 1970s, except that it's primarily focused more on young adult males instead of chicks. Since the director is said to be a gay male, this isn't much of a surprise.I doubt the director's intention was ever to consider it as a serious horror movie, but just to poke fun at some of the bad horror flicks from the 1970s, which used attractive young women as victims instead of males.I think many viewers will find this flick amusing, so long as they have a good sense of humor, instead of expecting to see a serious horror movie.

This is a very bad, truly horrible horror movie devoid of terror, suspense, or drama. The acting is subpar, the script is limited, there’s generic background music, and the uncomfortably close closeups are annoying. The strobe lighting for the death scenes is bound to be a problem for some. I had to turn away to avoid the flashing white light…signifying―what? It had no purpose.The plot featured steroid use, or as one character put it, “gym candy.” The bodies were piling up, but no one seemed to notice. If it was meant to be a comedy I might have given the filmmaker the benefit of my doubt. But. It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t scary, and it wasn’t even entertaining!

What a scream!!! The ultimate in campy teen horror, whether it is meant to be or not. Frankly, I cannot imagine the filmmakers did not know very well how funny and innocently erotic this film can be. The leeches virtually caress and enjoy their beautiful young scantily clad toy-boy victims before horribly devouring them. Ain't love grand!! A definite party piece.

This movie was a little corny, but entertaining and never boring. The actor who played the coach did not do a good job of acting. I think the word "OVERKILL" best describes his performance. The ending was a total surprise. I never thought it was conceivable.I would not call this a gay movie though. The fact that the director is gay, seems to be emphasized in all of his movies. The leeches were a bit 70s-ish. The actors did not do their best work when the leeches were sucking them dry. The movie is a fresh departure from the normal slasher flick. Not the best, but just a good movie.

�Leeches� is a horror movie of superleeches attacking and largely wiping out the Lakecrest College men�s swim team.Swimmer Stevo Robbins (played by Matt Twining of �The Frightening�) pushes steroids onto many other team members, partly to help the team win its competitions. Jason (played by Josh Henderson), Tony (played by Stephen Swan), Hank (played by Mark I. Miller), and Fish (played by Greg Lyczkowski) have all received drugs from Stevo. One day the team swims and parties at a lake. Stevo and Jason run back to the showers while carrying rather large leeches on their backs. The guys pluck off the steroid-engorged leeches and toss them onto the shower floor. Later, Tony kicks these leeches down a drainpipe, where they grow bigger and meaner.The first leech attack is on an incapacitated showerer, Doug (played by Trevor Harris), who gets a mouthful. Doug goes home, vomits up a huge leech (the best effect of the movie), and dies. The leech goes on to the next victim, Brian (played by Mike Cole). The superleeches multiply and are soon all over the campus.In general, the women are the consciences of the group. Girlfriends Sarah (played by Alexandra Westmore), Sabrina (played by Charity Rahmer), Casey (played by Stacey Nelson), and Angela (played by Maya Parish) resist the take-drugs-to-win positions of the men. Dr. Alice Manning (played by Julie Briggs) finds steroids in the blood of a dead swimmer and wants to test the whole team, but she doesn�t live long enough. Sarah is especially brave about touching leeches and their slime.The other counterpoint is science student/swimmer Steve (played by Michael Lutz) and his study-buddy (played by Tyler Sedustine). They hit the books while the others party.Of the fifteen credited characters appearing onscreen, twelve die over the course of this 85 minute movie. That�s once every seven minutes, which suggests there is a lot of action but not a lot of character development. The early kills are people we hardly know. The later the kill, the more we tend to know and not respect the character. There is a surprise at the end.At a higher level, the movie portrays the bad side effects of tinkering with our bodies and of putting the wrong chemicals out into nature. Booze and steroids figure in the ends of most. Steroids make the leeches larger and more aggressive. Being a studious scholar-athlete is not a complete answer either, as will be made clear.At a lower level, the movie displays male skin galore in swimming, bondage, and sleeping situations. The girlfriends go no further than brief bikini shots at the lake. All the men, other than the study-buddy and Coach Foster (played by Tony Carroccio) have lots of time in their swim suits. There is no [alternative]angle; all relationships are straight.Producer/Director David DeCoteau has created a rather good movie, much improved over Brotherhood III. The camerawork, lighting, and pacing are excellent. The leeches are acceptable, although some unnaturalness of motion is apparent. The acting is average overall, although I liked Matt Twining�s Stevo, Julie Briggs�s Doctor Alice Manning, and Alexandra Westmore�s Sarah a bit more than the rest. The director�s commentary is very good, filled with interesting points. There are various plot holes, but these come with the genre.There are very few naturalistic horror films with lots of handsome, male college boy skin. This is as strong an entry as there is for that niche. 3.5 stars, call it 4 for daring.

Good movie if u dont mind a "B" movie with lots of hot male bodies.

the leech sock puppets are a hoot campy "B" movie to a "C".

This movie is very graphic lol that's all I'm going to say