Queen Crab

****Please see comments below. I have been mistaken in my commentary about the special effects.****I watched this movie with an open mind and understanding that it is low budget and not meant to be taken too seriously. Even so, there are quite a few problems.The story is simple enough. It's about a young girl, who doesn't exactly love her parents, who ends up being orphaned after her scientist father accidentally blows up the house. A crab ends up growing to be a monster and the girl develops a psychic bond with the crab that lives in a pond by her house. The sheriff supposedly raises the orphaned girl. The girl seems to be able to do anything she wants, including shooting the deputy in the butt and suffers no consequences. This was probably an attempt at humor but it doesn't quite come across that way. The girl seems like a spoiled brat (she is living off her inheritance) and is a man hater so she comes across as a very unsympathetic heroine.The CGI was pretty good for a movie of this budget. I have no complaints about special effects with the possible exception of the ending. BTW..I don't want to give away the ending but they sort of botched it at least as far as the plan goes.Supposedly this movie was paying homage to old sci-fi flims of the 50's (which I'm a big fan of), Tarantula comes to mind, but if so, it fails in that regard.The acting is very poor. I'm not sure if they are working for next to nothing or nothing at all but they must be. From watching the trailers that are in the extra's I notice the same actor's and they are not very good. Not the worst that I've seen but I don't know why you would keep hiring the same actors that really aren't adding anything to the picture.Sometimes you take bad acting in order to add some eye candy but this is definitely not the case here. It's especially surprising to see that the producers couldn't even come up with a girl who would take their clothes off. I'd understand if they had a star who had some selling power but they have an unknown playing the part. In a day and age where there must be a million girls who would gladly remove their clothes for a starring role in just about any movie, they have a girl wearing a nude body suit. Of course it's possible they wanted to go with no nudity. But why would you go that route in a monster movie that is not rated? And why was she ripping off her clothes to dance naked around the pond anyway?You'd think they would probably want to save some of the crab eggs or even preserve the Giant Crab for scientific reasons...but then again...they never did that in the movies in the 50's either.Perhaps some of my questions will be answered in the sequel!

In Crabbe Creek, a small rural community, a young girl named Melissa adopts a precocious crustacean she names PeeWee. As it happens, her distracted dad is a scientist working out of a home laboratory, attempting to increase the size of fruits, vegetables and livestock, in hopes of combating world hunger. Ignored by her bickering parents, little Melissa starts feeding PeeWee some weird berries from her daddy's lab...Jump ahead about fifteen years, and Melissa's folks are dead, thanks to an unfortunate laboratory explosion. She lives alone in a cabin on her family's property, a virtual hermit. At night, the nubile young woman (Michelle Simone Miller) communes with her pet, now named "Goliath," and about the size of Sherman tank. Unfortunately, Goliath spawns a hungry horde of crawling killer offspring, and it's up to Sheriff Clarke (Ken Van Sant), his obnoxious deputy (Richard Lounell) and an investigator from the state Wildlife Commission (A.J. DeLucia) to save the town from the mighty Goliath and her voracious crablings.Shot on digital video with a tiny budget, QUEEN CRAB is a fun little monster movie that hearkens back to 50's sci-fi programmers, with a light tone, frequently witty script, and Old School special effects. The crabs are created via the magic of traditional stop-motion animation instead of CGI, executed with skill and style by Piper himself.The performances from the cast of semi-pros and amateur actors are inconsistent, to say the least, ranging from campy to wooden, but Piper's direction is brisk, and the creature effects are a genuine delight.Wild Eye Releasing's DVD is terrific, with a flawless, 16x9 widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 2.0 audio. The sound mix is admittedly underwhelming, with some brief instances where dialogue levels drop sharply, but overall, it's satisfactory. Jon Greathouse's musical score is mixed well, and is quite effective. The generous supplemental features include an audio commentary by Piper and producer Mark Polonia, a gag reel, three behind-the-scenes featurettes, an assortment of Wild Eye trailers, and a preview of Piper's next movie, TRICLOPS.QUEEN CRAB isn't a movie for everyone - the cheapness of the production is always evident and that can be hard for more cynical viewers to overlook - but it has a "let's put on a show!" earnestness that can be endearing, if approached with an open mind. Recommended.

A girl much ignored by her two spiteful parents finds the perfect pet, a crab, and sets about to make it BIG…by accident. Her parents die horribly and the girl inherits the perfect place to keep her perfectly humongous pet, who has issues with being shot at. It’s bad enough that her pet eats other pets but then a few pesky people get in the way and must be severely dealt with. It was totally not her fault, she was just doing what crabs do…I suppose.The best thing about this low-low-low budget epic is the giant crab. It demonstrated better acting skills than the actors did…and with no dialog! It’s almost funny enough that I found myself liking it in spite of it’s obvious shortcomings.

When it took place at Crab Creek, one knew what one was in store for. Melissa as a young girl finds this crab, and comes in to talk with her father, who is making things to make 'food' grow faster and bigger. He is so involved with his work, that he can't even see his daughter is holding a large crab. Then an explosion, and 30 years later. The dialogue is forced and stilted, and the actors aren't particularly good. But what is good is that no one in the movie takes anything seriously. There are goofy characters, which give this movie sort of an endearing quality. The movie has a moral: don't shoot crab eggs. This movie is like a traffic wreck. You know it is bad, but you cannot help but look.

So richtig glauben kann ich immer noch nicht, was ich da gerade gesehen haben.Cover:Die Krabbe ist nicht einmal halb so groß wie auf dem Cover dargestellt. Zudem stimmt der Text nicht, denn einen Meteor gibt es nicht, stattdessen wächst die Krabbe durch genmanipulierte Weintrauben. Zudem gibt es das erste Opfer nach genau 40 (von 73) Minuten.Schauspieler:Sind keine dabei, nur ein paar Menschen vor der Kamera, die man aber nicht als Schauspieler bezeichnen kann.Synchro:Von "na ja" bis "unterirdisch".CGITARANTULA von 1955 hatte eine weitaus bessere Tricktechnik, obwohl der Film 60 Jahre älter ist.Bei einem Budget von 75.000 $ (!) darf man nichts erwarten, aber das hier ist so dermaßen schlecht gemacht, dass es schon weh tut. Der Film ist noch schlechter als jeder Film von Asylum odet SyFy.Lieber Finger weg, ist nicht einmal 5 € wert.