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monster until you see it.” Entering the theatre, you are handed a clear plastic packet of cherry Jell-O, labeled “Instant Blood—your only protection from the monster.” Consumer Union considers The Flesh Eaters a pretty rough film. When The Flesh Eaters opened in Philadelphia, Curtiss realized that there was an opportunity to use the original monster for publicity purposes. The monster was stored only 100 miles away in a warehouse in Forest Hills, New York. So after repairing the giant eye in the monster’s head, which had been damaged, Curtiss strapped it on top of the station wagon and began the drive down to the City of Brotherly Love. After a peculiar incident at the tollbooth to the New Jersey Turnpike, which Curtiss would rather not talk about, they finally did get to Philadelphia, monster intact and ready to knock ‘em dead. Loudspeakers were installed in the station wagon and Curtiss and Company drove around Philadelphia announcing the coming of The Flesh Eaters. The claws wiggled, the fangs moved, roars periodically came from the top of the station wagon and a woman driver drove onto the sidewalk and slammed into a telephone pole. Life with the The Flesh Eaters is coming to an end however. Curtiss is in New York directing some new pictures, and Rita Morley, a heroine, is filming television commercials. Drake has gone back to writing Superman comics and Ray Tudor, a good guy in the movie, is currently on Broadway with the show Oliver. Byron Sanders, another good guy, meanwhile, can occasionally be found at the Neapeague Ocean Colony where he vacations with his wife and family. For him, The Flesh Eaters was just the way in which he discovered a beautiful piece of Earth called Montauk.
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bartering, he sent them a tape recording of the required narration. This was added to the film made in New Orleans. With this final afterthought scene, the addition of a 40-piece musical accompaniment, and the considerable amount of trick photography, the film The Flesh Eaters was finally finished and ready for national distribution. To date, The Flesh Eaters has played in San Francisco, Cleveland, Houston and Philadelphia, and to get to see it, one must wade through a good deal of super publicity. “The most horrible movie you will ever see,” the streamers proclaim. “You cannot believe the
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ed in the dark room. At one point in fact, author Drake added a whole new flashback scene narrated by the mad scientist that was not in the original script. “But we’ve already finished filming,” Curtiss argued when Drake told him about it. But then he saw it and realized that the flashback, to Nazi occupied Norway during the Second World War, was too good to leave out. Curtiss found a Chemical Laboratory at Tulane University in New Orleans, persuaded the chemists there to let him use it as a “Nazi” laboratory and then spent two weeks filming the flashback. The mad scientist, Kosleck, however was in San Francisco by this time, playing Goebbels in another Nazi war movie. He was contacted by mail about the additional scene and, after some
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