Monster of the Day #1522

Updated on March 8, 2017 By Ken Begg 20 Comments

A shockingly risque poster for the day, I’d have thought. Needless to say, the film doesn’t live up to it. Although it would have if the ‘alien’ didn’t walk backwards away from the camera all the time. Famously, the outfit they gave the actress was so tight the backside split open.

This might have been the film to inspire The Hideous Sun Demon, which Robert Clarke said he made because he figured it couldn’t be any worse than the stuff he was already appearing in.

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  • Ericb

    I don’t know how I was able to live 53 years and never hear of this movie.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Our parents shield us from so many bad things.

  • bgbear_rnh

    the outfit they gave the actress was so tight the backside split open

    Olympic swimmers still have this problem.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I just Googled some stills from this movie. If that lovely lady was a ‘monster’, I have to say I’ve seen worse on trips to the supermarket. Or did they have her mask get torn off at one point to show how she’s all scarred and ugly and whatnot, like in that one film I forget?

  • sandra

    Eric Hinkle , You mean TERROR FROM THE YEAR 5000.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Where you learn you can carbon date metal.

  • Not my parents. Back in the Ye olden days of video rentals, my Mom would rent any movie that had a HOT sticker, on the assumption that sooner or later we’d actually get something good that way.

    Oh, the things I’ve seen…

  • Rock Baker

    Seems like it never got a lot of TV play, and I’m not sure it was ever issued on video back during the boom.

  • Rock Baker

    Shirley Kilpatrick, who plays the titular monster, was a busy figure model of the day (in fact, she’s on this month’s calendar page in my kitchen). Stunning as she looks in her She-Monster garb, she wasn’t the prettiest model of the period. I don’t know if it was she or another model who actually posed for this poster art, but I did run across the reference shot once. The model was actually nude. Reportedly, the original title was going to be THE NAKED INVADER, until the censors denied it.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Why Miss Kirkpatrick, without your clothes, you’re. . . you’re naked! ;-)

  • Ken_Begg

    No, like nearly all of the AIP horror / sci fi flicks of the day, they never got a DVD release. A few more eventually made it out on VHS, though.

  • Ken_Begg

    No, she’s just radioactive and thus her touch is deadly.

  • Flangepart

    Two words…Zsa Zsa. Hummm…
    Dictionary 3d says ZSA =

    Meaning: lily
    Origin: Hungarian
    Gender: Female
    Lily Lily Gabor…yeah, Zsa Zsa does sound better…

  • Flangepart

    Ya do realise, cast wise, ya gotta ‘Robert Clarke Duncan’ goin’ on here…

  • bgbear_rnh

    Zsa Zsa’s petals…Zsa Zsa’s petals! There they are! Bert, what do you know about that!

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yeah, that’s it. Thanks.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Darn it, it’s always something.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    That’s a great poster–and while she looks semi-scandalous, to the point where Mom would say, “I’m not going to let you go see trash like that!” there are enough lines around her legs and wrists so that Junior could say “But mo-om, she’s wearin’ a bathin’ suit, see? Plee–eese?”

  • Gamera977

    Captain Kirk would hit that…

    ‘Dammit Jim, how the hell did you get radiation burns THERE!?!?!?!! ‘

  • Gamera977

    Watched this over the weekend, there’s a sorta krappy but serviceable copy on YouTube. What a snoozefest- kidnappers and their victim are trapped in a geologist’s mountain cabin and the glowy radioactive space lady hunts them down and zaps them one by one.