Attack of the Giant Leeches: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

When backwoods Florida shopkeeper Dave Walker discovers his hot but hostile wife Liz having an affair with his best friend Cal, he pursues the offending couple into the swamp with a shotgun. But before he can exact his revenge, the pair are dragged under the water by a couple of enormous slug-like creatures.

* [[Deep South]]: Quite a few side characters are played as total local yokels.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Dave hangs himself in jail when no one will believe he didn't kill his wife.

* [[Freudian Excuse]] / [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Liz blames her long streak of bad relationships for landing her in Dave's hands.

* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]: Verdict: Bad; the affair between Liz and Cal is not played sympathetically in the least, unless you count Liz's [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Police Are Useless]]: The local sheriff refuses to partake in Steve's search for Liz and Cal, preferring to believe that there are no monsters in the swamp and that Dave shot Liz and Cal in a jealous fit. He publicly maintains this attitude even after Cal's body is recovered and after an autopsy proves that he was killed by something like a giant leech, not a shotgun; he even goes so far as to (vaguely) threaten Steve for "poking around in other people's business". He is convinced only when he personally witnesses Liz's body rising from the swamp.

* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: In the end the giant leeches are destroyed, but with the cost of swamp's ecology. But then there's the below to consider . . .

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Nan

* [[Those Two Guys]]: The leeches' final two victims, who are captured even as they search for Liz and Cal.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Dave and Liz