EL MONSTRUO RESUCITADO.

     I looked for this movie for many years after seeing this poster. I have found it on You Tube not long ago.
     The mad scientist in the film does look like the man on the poster. The actor is wearing a mask. It's a pretty good mask but you still can tell it's a mask.

SHARK EXORCIST- Movie poster.

     I thought this was a joke but then I checked You Tube and found scenes from the movie posted there. Bad acting and bad taste.

THE ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER

     THE ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER is one of those movies with a great poster and a bad movie behind that poster.
     The only two features of this movie that are any good is A) The stock music which was also on the soundtrack of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS and B) the actress who plays the alien she monster. She wears a skin tight outfit and kills anyone she touches. In some scenes you will notice that she backs away from the the camera a lot. That was because the suit she was wearing was so tight that it split down the back and the actress could not turn around in it after that.
     There is no space saucers in the movie like the ones shown on this poster.
     Lead actor Robert Clarke was inspired to make the movie THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON after seeing that this bad very cheap movie made a profit.
     Clarke's movie is much better than this one.

GODZILLA'S STAR.

   
     I was in Hollywood CA yesterday and I was walking along the Walk of Fame where the names of famous actors are written unto stars that run down the sidewalk.
     I was surprised to see that Godzilla the monster star of many Japanese films had his own star on the Walk of Fame.

BILLY THE KID VS DRACULA

      I was thinking the other day about how exploitation movies, pulp novels, cheap horror comic books and cheap horror-exploitation VHS/DVDs  have a lot in common. They have catchy titles. Eye catching art and often the book/movie/comic book is a second or third rate work. But you don't find out that part until they get your money.

     BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA is one of those works. 

     I'm sure that no one went to that film believing that it was going to be seeing a masterpiece in cinema but it manage to be below par as both a horror film and a western. (That last line reads snobby. But sometimes I feel snobby)

    Once again John Carradine is brought in to give a third rate film some class and B movie star power. I always said that John Carradine was one of the greatest actors to appear in third rate movies.      In an interview he said this was the worst film he appeared in. I disagree since the film features him in a lead role. I think that his roles in THE VOODOO MAN and ASTRO ZOMBIES were a waste of his talents. I enjoy both films but he was wasted in them.

     Another film that wasted John Carradine was FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND. It was the last film of director/producer Jerry Warren. Carradine played the ghost of Dr. Frankenstein and I'm sure that all his scenes were shot in one day. He would appear out through the  film in double expose special effect shots and rant silly lines. It was like Lugosi's role in GLEN OR GLENDA.

POOR DEVIL- TV movie

     POOR DEVIL was a TV movie staring Sammy Davis Jr as a minor league demon who convince a man played by Jack Klugman (Best known for the ODD COUPLE) into selling his soul. Davis lets the man out of the deal at the end of the film and Davis' boss The Devil played by Christopher Lee put him to work shoveling coal into the pits of Hell as a punishment.
     This seem to be a pilot for a TV series but nothing came of it.

FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER.

     FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER is one of my favorite 3rd rate movies. 

     The film tells the story of a robot astronaut build by a scientist from human parts who encounters invaders from outer space. At the films end he rescues a group of kidnapped  women from the invaders and then fight space monster of the title.

     The film was known in England under the title of DUEL OF THE SPACE MONSTERS.