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The original Attack of the Giant Leeches is a classic "bad B-movie" horror film that isn't scary but you will definitely laugh at it and enjoy it with friends. This movie just takes advantage of the fact it is a public domain movie, steals the title and story and literally (pun intended) leeches off of that film with this. The problem is zero effort went into it. The sound and picture are so bad I barely could sit through the whole film. The acting is terrible. They clearly didn't care about the movie or viewers at all, just about getting enough screen time on camera to cash in on the original's title. This is shameful. Worst of all it's not even bad the way you can still enjoy and laugh at it, it's just a shameless and very, very boring waste of two hours I will never get back.

This is definitely one of Pryor's better performances. Maybe not his funniest but on the drama side of things the movie is thoughtful and touching at times because of his performance, and he's still funny when he needs to be. The director/writer I think overreaches in the end but this is definitely worth watching for Pryor's performance if nothing else.

What can you say about a classic seventies comedy that has both Richard Pryor and George Carlin in it? It definitely needs more of both of them, especially Carlin who really just appears in what is basically just a cameo in this movie, but they're still great and the movie is still decent and funny when they're not on screen. Worth checking out.