Monster of the Day #3033

Updated on May 19, 2020 By Ken Begg 12 Comments

Not many films have a cheaper, mangier monster suit than The Snow Creature. It’s so bad that they really keep it in shadows, as seen here. And this was directed by W. Lee Wilder, Billy Wilder’s muuuuuuuuuuch less talented brother, who turned a proud spotlight on the aliens-with-ping-pong-ball eyes in Killers from Space. An awful slog-at-70-minutes ’50s film that still has a tiny modicum of that cheapie charm. It will posted later today on YouTube on the Cult Cinema Classics page.

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  • Gamera977

    Looks like me going a few months without a haircut…

    BTW: The local barber is once again open- I made an appointment Sat. for a trim.

  • Ericb

    There’s this one shot in the movie where the monster is walking forward against a completely dark background that the film uses over and over and over and over again. When they want to show the monster moving away they just run the clip backwards. If you turned the film into a drinking game where you take a drink whenever the clip is appears you’d probably die.

  • This is one of the few films where I actively hoped for the protagonist’s death. The man was scum. A jackass. Right at the end of the film as the Snow Creature got his hands on him I went full on Michael Moriarity Q on him: “KILL HIM! KILL HIM! CRUSH, CRUSH!”

    But if you like badly made monsters walking in and out of shadows and the same back alley in L.A. used over and over again, boy, is this your flick!

  • Ken_Begg

    From the drinking or from watching the movie?

  • Rock Baker

    Just to clarify, the Killers’ eyes were egg crate cradles, not ping pong balls.

  • zombiewhacker

    Ping pong balls would have put the movie over budget?

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I can’t decide which is worse, this movie or Phantom from Space. W. Lee gives you all these choices.

  • bgbear_rnh

    You are going to make Mike Nelson have to re-write half his riffs ;-)

  • Ken_Begg

    I have to buy some clippers. It’ll be a good long while before the Illinois governor eases the restrictions, and I already look like I’m in a production of Godspell.

  • Ken_Begg

    Phantom from Space, also on the Cult Cinema Classics channel!

  • Gamera977

    It’s going to be interesting. Call in your appointment, only one customer in the shop at a time. And both you and the barber wearing masks. Definitely interesting…

  • Ericb

    I got my hair cut the day or two before the shutdown. I was so out of touch that I didn’t even know that the shutdown was coming. Just lucky I guess.