Most intriguing is the tissue's consistency. It proved impossible to cut, knives passing through the flesh leaving no mark.
8 seconds sound clip from the Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:10:52.524 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- 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.
- With this section as a measure, the wormlike creature would be more than five feet in length.
- Fire was applied to the tissue, and the calorie result...
- Well, it's getting very late. Why don't we work out tomorrow's schedule and then get some sleep.
- What about that five foot nightcrawler?
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