The Flesh Eaters is a 1964 American horror/science fiction thriller, directed on a low budget by Jack Curtis and edited by future filmmaker Radley Metzger.

[1] Jan Letterman, the personal assistant to wealthy, over-the-hill actress Laura Winters, hires pilot Grant Murdoch to fly her from New York to Provincetown, Massachusetts, but a storm forces them to land on a small island.

A series of strange skeletons wash ashore (human, then fish), since the water is inhabited by some sort of glowing microbe which devours flesh rapaciously.

By applying a large electrical shock to the waters surrounding the island, the survivors force the numerous dispersed microbes into forming a giant single organism.

The title was changed when its distributor, The Walter Reade Organization, expressed concern over confusion with The Flesh Eaters, released three years earlier.

[6] Dennis Schwartz on his website Ozus' World Movie Reviews awarded the film a grade C−, calling it, "A lovable but bad mad scientist B-film.

[8] Allmovie gave the film a positive review, writing, "This fun, endearingly trashy B-movie gem is one of the best-kept secrets in cult movie fandom.

Simply put, The Flesh Eaters offers everything one could want from a drive-in flick of this era: there are colorful characters, action, suspense, fun plot hooks, and a really cool monster".