Monster of the Day #3443

Updated on July 31, 2023 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

Who doesn’t love stop-animated animation? Sure, there was the occasional prop-created monsters that were terrific, like Them! Or fantastic suits, like in The Land Unknown. (Actually, Land Unknown had both great suit monsters *and* great prop monsters.) Still, stop-animated monsters just really scratch an itch like nothing else. I can’t imagine any kid of the day who wasn’t agog when you got a flick featuring one (or lots, later on).

I’m not sure why this release hired someone to create brand new poster art, instead of using the somewhat similar American art. But hey, I’m not complaining.

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  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    My French is not hat good. I think it says something about a monster ending my temp job at the amusement park.

  • The one thing I hate about this film (and it’s an unfortunately common problem with Monster movies) is how long it takes to convince the outside world the Big Guy exists. It’s not a believability thing, mind you. It’s my opinion that having the audience be ahead of the characters frustrates the audience. It’s not as bad here as it is in, say, Tarantula, when it takes most the movie before even the protagonists are on the same page as the viewers. However, I think it’s one of the reasons Beast is inferior to the likes of, say, Them, or Godzilla.

    The other problem it has is a distinct failure to properly utilize Kenneth Tobey. We’re not going to mention Lee Van Cleef, that’s understandable. But Tobey! How hard would it have been to change the main character from a scientist to a military man?

    All that said, I do love this move and its monster. My dad use to tell me that when Rhedosaurus eats the cop in his New York attack, he and his buddies would holler, “HAVE A BON BON!” I must confess it does pop up in my thoughts when it happens…

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I like how in “The Spider” sheriff played by Gene Roth is a skeptical and laughs it off but once he sees the spider and the death he is 100% all in. The do not waste time.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Oh, man Pee Wee. RIP Mr. Reuben.

  • Gamera977

    For my ‘something stupid’ this weekend I watched ‘Meatcleaver Massacre’ from 1977. Though ‘Meathead Massacre’ would be a more apt title. Some 40-50 year old college students (thought the movie police reports describes them as 20-22) kill the family of a professor with an interest in the occult.

    The movie then kills the audience with sheer boredom.

    I mean the professor summons an ancient Irish demon that whacks them one by one.

    Though the movie lovingly shows an awesome painting of the demon as a creature the size of a dump truck with green fur, giant fangs, and three eyes most of the murders are shown from the demon’s POV so they don’t have to construct a monster costume. Until the end where we get what looks like a fat guy covered in green makeup. The movie does a bunch of quick cuts so you can’t see it clearly. But it’s awful.

    Nevertheless; the entire film is so friggin’ dull it’s not worth watching this turkey to see the monster at the end. Really, watching paint dry or the grass grow would be more entertaining. The most horrifying stuff in the film are the cast’s nightmarish 1970’s fashions.

  • Eric Hinkle

    That’s something I hate in these films myself. When they have the movie’s monster rampaging down main street but the local authorities are refusing to admit it exists for some utterly moronic reason.