Review of The Flesh Eaters

I just watched the new, good print, wide screen, DVD. What a trip. The following contains spoilers. I saw this movie back in the early 70s when attempts at shock were becoming more common. Herschell Gordon Lewis, etc. I suppose my viewing was a re-release that grafted on the "Nazi" experiment scene because I remember the bonus footage being in the film I saw at the Riviera Drive-In in Oklahoma City. Naked girls being skeletonized is something I hope I would remember accurately. I noticed Radley Metzger's name in the credit roll. Metzger soon made a name for himself in the more high profile Porn of the "Porn Chic" days. At the time of Flesh Eaters release it made one of the more memorable covers for Famous Monsters Of Film Land. The guy playing Bartok, Martin Koslek, played an identical scientist type involved with flesh eating fungus in Agent For H.A.R.M. He's very effective and has a number of great, leering, close ups. His totally heartless mad scientist gets to do some sick stuff. Sticking a microphone in the face of the hysterically screaming beatnik character Omar as the Flesh Eaters eat his guts. Casually carving large chunks of the heroes leg off to remove burrowing Flesh Eaters ( a great effect, lots of sick depth). See it to believe it.