The Movie: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
What Is It?:
Roger excelled at making weird movies, so it’s no small thing to say that Attack of the Crab Monsters is one of
his weirdest. Nuclear radiation from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests not only
makes crabs grow to requisite 1950s sci-fi proportions but also makes them
absorb the brains of dead people, thereby acquiring intelligence, telepathic
communication skills, the ability to cause landslides, and bizarre human-like
faces. What makes this weirder than, say, The
Little Shop of Horrors or Creature
from the Haunted Sea is the seriousness with which it’s all played.
Why Today?: Today
is the first day of that crabby cancer
star sign.
