Attack of the Crab Monsters

And the lord said,

"I will destroy man

whom I have created

from the face of the earth;

Both man, and beast, and

the creeping thing,

and the fowls of the air;

For it repenteth me

that I have made them."

Make that line fast.

Everybody ashore.

Strange.

We can only see a small part

of the island from this spot,

but yet you can feel

lack of welcome,

lack of abiding life, eh?

Yeah, I felt the same when I came

here before to rescue your first team.

I not only knew that

they were gone,

but that they were lost completely

and forever, body and soul.

Please, lieutenant,

some of those men were our

friends from the same institute.

Sorry, Miss Hunter.

I'm not so sure you are

right, monsieur Quinlan.

Maybe their bodies are gone,

but who can tell of

their souls, eh?

Maybe if I call to them

they will answer...

Their ghosts will answer.

McLane!

Hello!

McLane!

Where is the house, lieutenant?

You can't see it from the shore.

It's back in the hills, at

the head of that gorge,

just hidden in the cliff.

How fitting.

Might as well have a look at it.

Well, they're coming in

with the second load of

supplies from the plane.

I'll have it sent right up.

Hold your headway!

You're gonna broach!

Tate, sit down in there!

Well, get him up!

I see him. He's on the bottom.

What's the foul-up there?

God help us.

Cover him.

You know, I wish

they'd get back.

I don't like being out here all

alone with old Tate's rigor mortis.

Sam, how did a nervous guy like you

ever get involved in demolitions work?

Nervous? What do

you mean, nervous?

I'm not nervous, just a little

high-strung, that's all.

Come on... help me get

these pineapples inside.

You know, I don't know what we're

gonna use these for out here anyway.

Unless it's to practice pitching

to those babies out there.

Took his head off... his head?

I'm afraid so.

We're gonna take him back

to Enewetak for burial.

I hope that man's death is not

an omen of things to come.

Frankly, doctor, I wouldn't

care to stay here with you,

but if you run into trouble

or you need extra supplies,

you can always reach

the base by radio.

That is, if this rotten weather will

let us get back to the base at all.

Something in the air is wrong.

Can you tell me what

it is, lieutenant?

Well, I don't know, sir.

Maybe it's because

there's no sound,

no animal noises of any kind.

Well, looks like we got the

dynamite by mistake.

- Looks like it.

- I'll cart it back down to the beach.

Oh, excuse me, doctor.

That's quite all right.

Just call me Martie.

Okay, Martie.

You know, the navy boys

really fixed this place up.

I'm almost gonna

enjoy being here.

Yeah, you'd never think it was a

complete wreck a few months ago.

If you want to see a wreck,

take a look at my back.

Karl, it'll be dark

in a few minutes.

Want to come watch the takeoff?

- I'd like to.

- I'll get the others.

Lieutenant, I don't want to annoy

you again, but nothing was left?

Not a hair, nor a

fingernail clipping?

Only McLane's journal?

Well, that's all, doctor.

That they are dead,

I can believe possible,

but to vanish from the

face of the earth? No!

The navy thinks they

were all at sea

in their small boat

when the typhoon hit.

Lost with all hands

is an old story.

Yes, but...

Everybody okay?

- Yeah, it looks that way.

- You okay, Mac?

Yeah, nothing that getting off

this old pile won't cure.

See you in a month!

- One month, no more, oui?

- Oui!

- We'll watch you from the cliffs.

- Au revoir!

Did you hear those sounds

just before the quake?

What sounds, Mon ami?

A deeper booming and rumbling?

No, I'm afraid not.

Doctor Carson means

the explosions.

We should get up to the cliffs.

Hey, Hank, you're a scientist.

How come they need a demo team

like us on this hunk of dirt?

I'm no scientist.

I'm a technician and a handyman.

So, you still don't

know what's going on?

Well, you remember that

first big H-bomb test?

The one that blew Elugelab

Island right out of the ocean?

Who forgets that?

A tremendous amount of the

radioactive fallout came this way.

A great seething, burning cloud

of it sank into this area,

blanketing the island with hot

ashes and radioactive seawater.

Dr. Weigand's group is here to study

fallout effects at their worst.

Dr. James Carson

is a geologist.

He'll try to learn what's

happening to the soil.

The botanist, Jules Deveroux,

will examine all the plant

life for radiation poisoning.

Martha Hunter and Dale

Drewer are biologists.

He works on land animalism, while

she takes care of the seafood.

Dr. Karl Weigand is a

nuclear physicist.

He'll collect their

findings and relate them

to the present theories on the

effects of too much radiation.

We blow up mountains for

the geologist Carson.

But this is the second bunch

of brains to come out here.

What happened to the first?

They were here,

and a storm hit.

Then they were gone.

That's all anybody knows.

Doesn't anybody wonder?

Everybody wonders.

They just don't like

to talk about it.

Come on, we'll miss the takeoff.

Hank, get to the radio.

There's something.

It's a commercial station,

probably Manila or Samoa.

It's all from beyond the

area of disturbance.

I don't get a thing

on the navy bands.

Keep trying.

All those men killed...

We can't even send word

through this storm.

The navy'll send a

search plane, honey.

No, the navy will assume

that Lieutenant Quinlan

decided to remain here,

rather than risk the storm.

Enewetak's probably getting

as much static as we are.

Probably, which means

we can't do anything

until conditions improve.

So why don't we let

Hank keep trying

while we begin our own working?

We have to go over

McLane's journal

sooner or later, so it

might as well be now.

Then let us go into

the living room.

"Thursday, March 11.

"Today Dr. Ben Diaz'

culture failed to produce

"any sign of bacteria,

"though left for five

days in the open."

"Friday, March 12.

"This afternoon,

Professor Carter found

"a large piece of flesh

having the same composition

"as that of the

common earthworm,

"but measured 24 inches by 8.

"With this section as a measure,

"the wormlike creature would be

more than five feet in length.

"Most intriguing is the

tissue's consistency.

"It proved impossible to cut,

"knives passing

through the flesh,

"leaving no mark.

"Fire was applied to the tissue,

"and the calorie result..."

The journal ends there.

Well, it's getting very late

Why don't we work out tomorrow's

schedule and then get some sleep.

What about that

5-foot night crawler?

Well, excuse me for

being so stupid.

Me and that book you're reading.

We weren't laughing

at you, Hank.

It's just that McLane

didn't really mean to imply

that the flesh was

from a big worm.

He said, "from a

wormlike creature."

You know, it might've

been a sea worm.

They've been known to grow

much longer than 5 feet.

Well, excuse me for

shooting my mouth off,

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