Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

whatsupdoc525 This movie has the dubious honour of being the absolute worst movie of all time. Too much to go into in detail......the awful acting, the plastic "monster" leeches moving as if someone is pulling a string, the "exploding" leech full of balloons, the awful and predictable plot line, etc, etc. However, this is nothing more than a soft-porn gay flick, disguised as a grade Z (worse than "B") sci fi horror movie. Slow panning shots of semi-naked boys' bodies, slow-motion boys emerging from the water or showering, leeches moving slowly up the boys' legs to their abs, to their chests, to their......you get my drift. Then, there are the "bondage" scenes with the young teenager tied to the bed, the hunky coach tied to the shower, and I could go on and on. Great movie if you're a gay male teenager and too afraid to go get a XXX movie from your local XXX shop. Enjoy it if you can.

Phillemos This movie is apparently someone's way of getting revenge on me for putting all my thoughts about the attractiveness of the females in all my IMDb.com horror movie reviews. "Leeches!" (as opposed to "Leeches?") is a hideously slow-moving movie that features a lot of bathing-trunk clad guys getting attacked in slow motion by mutated leeches in the shower stalls of their local community college, with pseudo-porn background music. Apparently one of the students had been messing with steroids and accidentally created the leech problems. Conversely, NOBODY involved in this disaster has been messing with script-writing, special effects or casting. I could live with the homo-erotic influences of this movie if it were not for the absence of actual horror movie scenes. The ending is incredibly dumb, too. They try to leave the door open for a sequel, but the way they do it with a plot twist that is just so silly you'll laugh. In conclusion, there is more modeling time by the male actors than there are scenes featuring the killer leeches. I can only hope that someday, someone will do a movie called "Gay Porn!" that will be about an invasion of killer leeches. A truly terrible movie.

Paul Andrews Leeches! is set in & around 'Lakecrest College' somewhere in California where lately hunky dude Jason (Josh Henderson) has been having disturbing nightmares. Together with his girlfriend Casey (Stacey Nelson) they come to the conclusion that the steroids he has been taking may be responsible, you see Jason is aiming to get a swimming scholarship & has been taking steroids supplied by his best friend Stevo (Matthew Twining). It's not like the rest of the swimming team aren't taking them is it? As Stevo & Jason take a dip in a river blood-sucking leeches attach themselves to their backs & start drinking. They eventually discover the leeches & pull them off but don't kill them... Having drunk steroid loaded blood the leeches mutate into, well, bigger leeches. As an important swimming contest fast approaches Stevo puts pressure on another team member named Tony (Stephen Swan) to take a whole bag of steroids for even better performance, unfortunately Tony ends up in the river where even more leeches feast upon his blood which has a seriously high steroid content. It's not long before Lakecrest College is overrun with giant blood-sucking slimy mutant leeches & the students are on the menu...Co-produced & directed by David DeCoteau, who according to the IMDb also has a small uncredited role in the film as Franklin the Walkie Talkie Voice(!), Leeches! is a very poor film throughout. The script by Michael Gingold could have been decent fun as a creature feature type horror but instead it's just lame, it's boring & has no depth as it skates over & all but ignores the drug usage issue. The character's are awful, the dialogue sucks & everyone is one dimensional teenage leech food & wouldn't you notice or feel a huge mutant leech crawling up your naked back? It's one of those films which has an outrageous premise & promises so much but in the end I simply couldn't wait for it to end, speaking of the end there's a 'twist' which comes from nowhere & seemed totally pointless. The body count is low & the leeches themselves are far from scary or threatening, in fact the real leeches used at the start are more effective than the stupid rubber ones.Leeches! was one of two films director DeCoteau made during '03, the other being Speed Demon (2003), so you can probably guess the sort of time & commitment spent on Leeches! First of all it's true what everyone says about Leeches!, DeCoteau uses & films as many half naked young guys as he can. I can't remember a shot where a guy actually had a shirt on to be honest, constant shots of young men in their speedos as DeCoteau's camera can't get enough of it! Surprisingly this was shot in a 2:35:1 aspect ratio (basically you will have thick bars at the top & bottom of the screen if you see it that way) which could have given DeCoteau the opportunity to make a nice looking & stylish film, he obviously passed the opportunity up. The violence & gore is as restrained as possible, someone coughs some blood up, a few leech bite marks & a decent bit where a wire slices through someone's throat. For some bizarre & highly annoying reason DeCoteau films the weak attack scenes with quick cuts & with strobe lighting effects which happen during the attack's but not before or after, the words cheap 'n' nasty spring to mind.With a budget that probably wouldn't cover a round of drinks Leeches! is a pretty shoddy production that was probably made with the video/DVD market in mind. Low production values, really poor special effects as the leeches themselves are mostly just glove puppets & are only filmed from half way up their bodies & Leeches! just has that cheap vibe throughout.Leeches! is a pretty poor film, to it's credit it's short & it moves along at a fair pace although generally speaking it's just poor. If you enjoy looking at half naked young guys then Leeches! is definitely for you, if you enjoy a good horror film then Leeches! definitely isn't for you.

anxietyresister In what is possibly the most unscary horror film ever made, college students are having the blood sucked out of them by the terrible creatures in the title. Er.. why not just stay out of the water, then? Unfortunately, this bunch of morons are the stupidest people ever to graduate.. so we get scene after scene of them diving in, despite being given plenty of warnings about the danger. In fact, it is impossible to care whether they live or die after a while, their behaviour is so idiotic and suicidal. So instead, why not sit back and enjoy the plastic toys that are supposed to pass for leeches and the worse acting you'll see outside pantomime. And this little treasure was made in 2003. The mind boggles.. 0/10