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Released
1957 · FILM

Attack of the Crab Monsters

From the depths of the sea... A TIDAL WAVE OF TERROR!

Directed by
Runtime
63 min
HorrorSci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

A group of scientists travels to a remote island to study the effects of nuclear weapons tests, but they become stranded after their airplane mysteriously explodes. The team discovers that the tests have produced crabs mutated into intelligent, impervious, telepathic giants that aim to increase their numbers by breeding and then travel to populated areas to feed, showing no intention of being stopped by their discoverers.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Charles Gross JrShot by Floyd CrosbyScored by Ronald Stein

Box Office

1957 · Box office

Produced on a $70K budget

Production budget

$70K

Also known as

  • L'Attaque des crabes géantsfr
  • L'assalto dei granchi gigantiit

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