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The Flesh Eaters (1964)

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The Flesh Eaters with a big lovecraftian monster with a Nazi connection The Flesh Eaters (1964) A black and white low budget thriller that was shot mostly around Montauk, NewYork.  It's gruesome death scenes done by crude special effects make it one of the first gore films.  With a cult following, this film influenced other gore films later.  A drunken over the hill starlet hires a pilot to take her and her assistant on a trip, only to be forced by the weather on a secluded island.  Strange skeletons of fish and a person appear on the desolate beaches.  They are met by a reclusive scientist who claims he is working on a science experiment.  Soon it is revealed that he is a Nazi scientist is conducting experiments on creatures that can devour flesh quickly. The girl who gets semi nude and dies and the beginning for modern slasher horror films...it starts here. Predating the slasher films by decades, we are introduced to characters such as the beatnik who are one dim