Monster of the Day #3056

Updated on June 26, 2020 By Ken Begg 21 Comments

After posting yesterday’s MotD, How to Make a Monster, I discovered that Amazon Prime has a really nice print of the same movie available. As I’ve mentioned before, Prime has really upped their selection of grade A (and Z) schlock. If you’re a subscriber, you could certainly spend a worse hour and a half this weekend watching the spectacular Super Inframan.

Have a great weekend, everyone.

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  • I love Princess Dragon Mom!

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I just watched the Brandon Tenold review of this. It really does sound kind of crazy.

  • Gamera977

    Oh yeah crazy ain’t the word for this- calling it crazy is like calling the Atlantic Ocean a puddle…

  • Gamera977

    I guessing Princess Dragon Mom is the dubbed version? She’s always called something else in my subtitled one.

  • Scopi314

    Since I first saw this I’ve seen a lot more classic Kamen Rider, and while I knew Inframan was a rip-off of that franchise, I didn’t realize how directly. Two of the monsters are near copies of early Kamen Rider monsters, and another one is identical. A lot of the plot is similar to Kamen Rider X (1974). Etc. Not that Shaw Brothers didn’t put their own spin on it — the Kamen Rider franchise has very few female villains, even after nearly 50 years — but it’s not very original.

    And if you think Inframan is crazy, you really need to see the original 1970 Kamen Rider series. As the first modern Japanese superhero show they were trying to figure things out, and is gets WEIRD. At times it leans into horror to a degree that seems downright irresponsible for a children’s show. David Lynch would watch the episode where Shocker sets up a fake wedding church to acquire women for their current mutant to drain of blood and say, “You guys need to tone this down.” There is a point during production where the main actor hurt himself so they wrote episodes around his absence, and people only talk about him, and his masked alter-ego appears, but he never does. It feels like the show is being haunted by the ghost its own main character. They replace the main character with a another character, and every couple months it seems like they retooled the supporting cast, so supporting characters appear and disappear and no one ever says anything about it. It’s just surreal.

  • Gamera977

    I’d love to see some of the Karmen Rider series. That and Ultraman too. There’s so much stuff though I’d not know where to even begin.

  • Yes, but it is the greatest dub name ever, so I am keeping it!

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ll have to watch this, just to see what Princess Dragon Mom looks like. Is she human all through the movie, or does she ever turn into an actual dragon?

  • Eric Hinkle

    Thanks for this heads-up, Ken. I gotta watch this one.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Talking weird stuff on Amazon Prime, they also have ‘Mighty Peking Man’. I’ve heard that film be mentioned around here a few times.

  • Humanoid at least. Now I really want a T-Shirt or something of her.

  • The tiny woman facing you in the silver bikini-skirt-thing revels in the not-quite-as-silly name of She-Demon

  • Scopi314

    The original Kamen Rider is currently streaming for free on Shout Factory, and it’s a perfect place to start. It really is the cornerstone of modern tokusatsu superhero programs, and includes many fun tropes that continue until today — surrealism, storylines driven by behind-the-scenes drama, product placements, meta-fandom, etc.

  • zombiewhacker

    Is this the original Inframan movie retitled or a sequel/reboot?

  • Eric Hinkle

    Over on TV Tropes they have this quote about the film: ‘Roger Ebert put it best when he said “When they stop making movies like this, a little light will go out of the world.”

  • Gamera977

    Oh awesome! Will have to check this out.

    Thanks!!!

  • Gamera977

    Princess Dragon Mom looks like a pretty blond Chinese woman.

    Yeah, blond.

    Blond Swedish women do not frighten me. Blond Norwegian women neither. But there’s something disturbing about blond Asian women (and men too).

    As to dragon yeah I’m guessing it’s her true form. It looks like something from a Sid and Marty Kroft kids show. Though it does prove to have a rather amazing defense against decapitation.

  • Gamera977

    I found my copy does have a dubbed version too. Though it’s mono and bad quality as compared to the subtitled version being stereo and much better.

    The ‘She-Demon’ is called ‘Witch-Eye’ there- which I guess makes sense considering her extra eyes.

  • Gamera977

    I watched it again Friday night. It’s just so much fun!!! I think my favorite male monster was ‘Mutant Drill’. I just love his bouncy walk and constant waving his arms around. And I loved ‘Princess Dragon Mom’ and ‘She-Demon’ for rather more obvious reasons…

  • Eric Hinkle

    Those dragon chicks are hot, huh?

  • Jamie B.

    One of my favorite movies!