I'm watching this on AMC (American Movie Classics) as I type this. It seems like its more fit for a tv show, the outer limits maybe, more than a feature film. It's not too bad, although I don't expect much at 4 am. Seems like only a few people have seen it so i figured I'd say something.
shareI watched it, too. It was either horrible or hilarious, I don't know which. If ever a movie cried out for Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary...it really was quite bad, but I enjoyed it. (Ladies and gentlemen, presenting MR. Shirley Temple!!!)
shareI tuned in just in time for the taxicab scene. Hilarious! (The driver seems more upset that a "black" man has jumped into his cab than by the fact that a poisonous rubber monster is getting angry at him...)
Poor John Agar stumbling around in his big puffy-faced mask (he looks like a crunchy Dizzy Gillespie, crossed with a toad with a goiter) and floppy gloves stuffed into a trenchcoat and hat (good thing his feet didn't swell up too), arghing and rarghing down streets full of people who don't notice him?!?...and the endless music score! Constant droning "lounge" music that continues unbroken until the final frame! Gah! The horror! (I was amazed to see "Twentieth Century-Fox" in the end title card; this looks and sounds like something put out by one of those extinct no-budget studios that gave us junk like "Killers From Space.")
The movie even ends with a comment about rubber sheets. Oh my God, they couldn't make this thing sillier if they MEANT to.
It frightens me to think that this--with the swollen ugly monster trying to hide himself with the trenchcoat and hat--might have been the inspiration for The Thing of "The Fantastic Four."
I have SO gotta watch this from the beginning next time...
Hahahahaha! Good on ya' mate!
The non-stop beatnick lounge music was getting to me too! I half-expected some dude in a black turtleneck with a goatee, sunglasses and a beret to jump out at somepoint and just say "Chill, daddy-o!"
And, ironically, the Thing of the Fantastic Four predates this monstrosity by a year, so it was probably the other way around!
Wow1 I just saw this little gem last night. Where in the hell was this hiding? I laughed out loud at you description of the monster. I loved the beatnik/lounge/theremin music- unique! I'll be looking for this on DVD.Classic!
shareWatched it on AMC this morning. How very, very sweet it is to see John Agar kill Joe Besser to a bongo-and-Theremin score before 7 a.m.
Laurel
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.--Jean Genet
Happened to be updating my info & saw your posting. Just thought I'd say hello. I'm not really sure why, since I've spent the last three years trying to pretend you don't exist.
Rick
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Did you not get my reply to your last e-mail? I looked for updates to your page, but they don't show yet.
If you're not sure why you're contacting me, maybe you shouldn't. I always hoped we could end up friends. This ball is in your court, not mine.
I wish you all the best in your life and career.
Laurel
Hey, what's going on? I mean, since you're being all "public" & stuff...
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I wish I could find more films like this......
Such a fantastic piece of history to come across!
I need to be schooled on on some old sci fi flicks ya dig. Ha
Find these books: The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film and The Psychotronic Video guide. If they don't school you, nothing will.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.--Jean Genet
A divorce. Move along, nothing to see here. Loved you in Trainspotting BTW.
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.--Jean Genet