Monster of the Day #3063

Updated on July 8, 2020 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

Nothing makes me lament where Hollywood in general right now than the fact that we can’t go see double bills of movies like Killer Shrews and Giant Gila Monster in theaters/drive-ins anyway. Anyway, GGM is a perfect little piffle and it’s now up on the Cult Cinema Classics on YouTube.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    This is the one with the song about mushrooms, right?

  • Ericb

    “Kenny! Supper’s ready! And if you’ve been playing with gila monsters again you better wash your hands twice!”

  • bgbear_rnh

    hah, laff, children laff

  • Eric Hinkle

    That’s a great picture of the best actor in the whole film.

  • An incredible accounting of a young singer’s rise to fame, all the truth, the drama, the compelling accuracy for the times, of what really happened to people in that region of the world in the fifties, utterly ruined by the needless addition of the kid actually singing.

    …

    …

    Anyway. No idea why I liked it, cause there ain’t enough of what I watch these movies for. But I did. I did.

    For those who care, the colorized version is also on You Tube. Me, i’m waiting for the no doubt in the making 3-d version. Oh, and from the Department of This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, Jim Wynorski remade this movie in 2012. Because of course he did.

  • Ken_Begg

    And, of course, it’s somehow far worse than the original.

  • zombiewhacker

    Jim Wynorski… perhaps one of the few Roger Corman proteges whose best work was produced *under* the Corman label… as opposed to afterwards like Coppola/Bogdanovich/Scorcese/Demme/Kaplan/Howard/Franklin/Towne/Matheson/Sayles et al.

    And even his best wasn’t all that great.

    (Speaking of which, Chopping Mall was just added to Amazon Prime.)

  • C-Moore

    What a great diorama shot! Those are more convincing toy cars than we usually see in these cheapo giant monster movies, probably because they don’t look like they’re new out of the box.

  • The Rev.

    Sir, I shall not put up with this libel about Chopping Mall. That movie is an unbridled work of art.

  • Gamera977

    I watched ‘Chopping Mall’ over the weekend. It promised killer robots whacking meatbags, it gave me killer robots whacking meatbags- so I’d call it a success. Why can’t movies like ‘R.O.T.O.R.’ get something so simple right???

  • Oddly it’s one I’ve first watched in the last few weeks as well. I thought it was pretty fun as those things go, and certainly better than the sort of dreck Wynorski turned out as his career progressed.