Not quite awful.


This movie is terrible. It would have to improve a bit to make it to the level of AWFUL. In the opening scene, men in a Jeep on a very rough road, carrying payroll for the local mining operation, one of the men holds a machine gun, the muzzle of which he has constanly pointing inside the jeep -- basically AT those who he is supposed to be protecting...The voice dubbing is horrendous and the maniacal laughter of The Mad Scientist is, well, Laughable. Apparently, the writers had a penchant for the name Burt/Bert for three of the main characters are named; Burt, Albert and Robert, which can sometimes lead to cunfusion in keeping straight who is who. The editing is abominable. When Eve (or Eva, depending on who is saying her name) does show up in the film, it's out of nowhere and you have no reference point to know who she is until later someone refers to her as The Sacred Monkey.
The music is strictly spaghetti-sci-fi-horror as well as the sound effects, that apparently everyone in the 60s thought the future would sound like, with the high-pitched whoo-whoo-whoo sounds.

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It's absolutely bloody terrible! But that's why I like it. Goddammit, I want a sacred monkey!!!

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