Not as Bad


as "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" in that you could see through the giants and in this drivel the body of the beasts as well as melted face man were not transparent. Even so, typical nausea for the time. And to think, only 16 years before Lon Chaney, Jr. was actually worth watching.

Let it be unsaid: insignificance is the locus of true increpation.

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Eh, I liked Attack of the 50 Foot Woman better than this one. Yeah, she was only a giant for a few minutes, but the story leading up to it was more entertaining. It also had a catchy title and a really cool movie poster.

This film doesn't really get going until late in the movie either and everything about it either feels tacked on or thrown together. Lon Chaney Jr. may have hammed it up in this film, but he was clearly only in it to collect a paycheck and his performance was still the best one in it.

I will admit thought that I liked the makeup on the Cyclops.

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I have to agree with both of you but I can't decide which movie is the least irritating.

Some of the things they did in this movie defy logic. Like the part where they are flying along and Chaney's character demands they put the plane down NOW. When the pilot refuses (Because there is no place to set down safely) Chaney punches him in the head knocking him out. Yeah... that will get the plane down fast for sure.

The python fight was another thing. Instead of an angry, aggressive snake they have one that looks like all it wants to do is escape.

It's also obvious that the actor's make-up made him blind during the filming. We wind up with a monster that looks more like a man trying to grope for a flashlight during a blackout and angry that his children hid it.

It would be funny to see one of our modern day comics do a parody of this film.

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We have to remember that most of these types of movies were aimed at children.

Logic and reason don't matter.

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The monsters here were every bit as see-through as the 50 foot woman (especially during the lizard fight and when monster and girl are right outside the cave). Cyke grabbing the girl along with the background, makes this a special effects nightmare even when compared to the horrifyingly terrible 50 ft woman. 25 years earlier, King Kong had better effects than both of these films.

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For a movie that was probably made in a weekend or two on a shoestring budget, It works well. Keep in mind that this was probably filler for drive-in movie theaters. The actors were far from superb, but they didn't exactly have brilliant material to work with either.

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I agreed. I was only responding to the fact that the OP compared the effects in this favorably to Attack Of The 50ft Woman. It seemed clear (to me, at least) that the effects were terrible in both. The same quality (or lack of it) in both films, in my opinion.

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