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      The Leech Woman

      1960 1 hr. 17 min. Sci-Fi List
      Reviews 12% 100+ Ratings Audience Score A scientist's (Grant Williams) wife (Coleen Gray) must kill men to make the serum that keeps her looking young. Read More Read Less

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      Blobbo X Not close to good but liked anyway. (No leeches were harmed - or figured in in any way in the making of this feature.) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/02/24 Full Review Josh G A thoughtful premise that's drawn out a bit too long with some run of the mill film making and standard performance is one of the most fun times you can have watching black and white, roger corman style film, It better on VHS, I've had a pretty good time watching It . Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/13/22 Full Review georgan g This film is so filled with stereotypes that it's laughable. And it takes place in Africa, so you can imagine the racism shown. One of those films that is so bad, it's good, in it's own way. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A few years before Mondo Cane would popularize the use of tribal footage, The Leech Woman takes scenes of African wildlife and tribal dances from the 1954 adventure movie Tanganyika to spice up its tale of a middle aged woman becoming young again by, well, becoming a leech woman. It starts off promising — a mysterious old woman named Malla (Estelle Hemsley, who was an early African-American star) claims to have been brought to America as a slave nearly 140 years ago and wants to be beauitiful and young for one more night, but only in her home country of Africa. To pay for the trip, she promises to teach endocrinologist Dr. Paul Talbot the secret of how she has stayed alive for so many years. Dr. Paul is the kind of jerk given to saying things like "Old women give me the creeps." Too bad that he's married to a woman ten years older than him. But after a trip to Africa, in which he witnesses a ritual in which a man is killed and his pineal gland secretions harvested and mixed with orchid pollen. His wife turns the tables and kills off Dr. Paul, using his glands to become young again — yet gets older every time it wears off — murdering people under the secret identity of her niece Terry Hart. She falls for a lawyer and tries to use the glands of his girlfriend, but it doesn't work, so she does what we all would: throws herself to a window, leaving behind a husk. Director Edward Dein also made Curse of the Undead. This movie was made so that Universal-International would have a movie to play with Hammer's Brides of Blood. That movie is magic. This perhaps not so much. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Recently gave the MST3K version a spin off the To-Watch Pile, didn't mind it at all. Rental? Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Far from the worst B-Horror flick, it still has little meat on the bone. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Steve Wright SciFiNow Despite being 56 years old, and obviously of its time in a number of respects (the portrayal of the African tribesmen is vintage Hollywood), The Leech Woman is equally light years ahead in others. Rated: 4/5 May 23, 2016 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A scientist's (Grant Williams) wife (Coleen Gray) must kill men to make the serum that keeps her looking young.
      Director
      Edward Dein
      Screenwriter
      David Duncan, Ben Pivar, Francis Rosenwald
      Production Co
      Universal International Pictures
      Genre
      Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 10, 2017