Monster of the Day #3469

Updated on September 11, 2023 By Ken Begg 4 Comments

So we watched the Lou Ferrigno 1983 Hercules for last Friday’s Watch Party, and I think everyone enjoyed it. It’s just so damn goofy. Borrowing from Clash of the Titan’s (ahem) beloved Bubo, which itself “borrowed from” Star Wars, the film features a lot more space stuff than you might imagine, and all the beasts are robots. Here, for example, is the famous and mythology accurate “The Hydra, the three-headed guardian of Hades.”

It’s extremely fun. Check it out on Amazon Prime.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yeah, where the heck is MacFarland Toys with this film? It would seem a natural for them.

  • Ken_Begg

    Ha, you are right about that!

  • What I didn’t realize at the time is that this is the same director who did the 1989 The Black Cat, a supposed sequel to Susperia that is about a director trying to get a sequel to Susperia off the ground. Like Hercules it is incoherent as hell, but not as… I think charming is the right word.

    It didn’t surprise me that Cozzi did both films, as for some reason he keeps sticking pointless planets and space scenes in both movies. It’s like he would really rather do a sequel to Starcrash but no one will let him.

  • Gamera977

    This was the most fun movie since ‘Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow’.

    Funny, I’ve seen the second film several times but somehow this is the first time for the first one.