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Domenica, Febbraio 28th, 2010
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The most fabulous thing about the she-monster is the very
well-endowed (37-26-36) outmoded stripper/nude model Shirley
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Kilpatrick’s slinky, sexy ride in her skin-tight, ravishing spandex
body suit. She looks almost naked, the suit is so form-fitting (not
surprising, since the novel title was going to be The Naked
Invader.) In fact, according to the liner notes, it was so tight she
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couldn’t sit down in it, and had to rely on a back-board to lean
against between takes.
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She certainly doesn’t eye like a “monster!” She has not a single
line of dialog in the film, not even a state or declare, fair a wail at
the climax. This movie was evidently not only her debut on screen
but also her final appearance. She doesn’t seem to have ever been
in anything else. I first saw this movie on late-night TV benefit in
the `60s, I judge, and she’s the only thing I ever remembered about
it! Well, that, and the final scene where star Robert Clarke reads a
lengthy, ludicrous speech from a shrimp scrap of paper!
The whole movie is ludicrous, with awful acting, inane narration and
dialog, humorous residence, inept direction, and homemade special effects
that Ed Wood would have been ashamed of, but it’s unruffled fun, a
perfect example of how an enterprising wanna-be film-maker can
borrow money (in this case unprejudiced $18,000!) and locations, and using
his friends and relatives and a few professionals, can churn out a
movie in a few days that makes a trim itsy-bitsy profit.
Writer/producer/director Ronald Ashcroft studied under the
master, Roger Corman, on Day the World Ended, and learned
how to do it. Actor Clarke learned from Ashcroft and he, too,
went on to try his hand with The Unsightly Sun Demon.
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This DVD edition has honest average image and sound quality, a
chapter index, and the theatrical trailer, but there’s also two pages
of liner notes by film historian Tom Weaver that’s very
informative, with quotes by Ashcroft. Add this one to your `50s
cult classic collection!
Here is a brief synopsis, followed by some of the other miscellaneous reasons I like this flick so much:
The AS-M (who kills with a mere touch) stalks a geologist, a ravishing socialite, and three kidnappers who are hiding out at the geologists’s isolated hilltop cabin during what may loosely be deemed “night.” Suffice it to say, some of them don’t live through it. Then there’s an ironic sort of ending that achieves absolutely no irony whatsoever because it is all despicable for a number of reasons. Essentially, it’s an extremely unpleasant man’s ‘Key Largo’ meets an equally impoverished man’s ‘Alien.’ Or you could sight at it as a precursor to ‘The Beast From Unnerved Cave,’ only quicker and sillier. (I guess I could add that it makes more sense than Conception 9, and is perhaps equal in coherency to Bride of the Monster. But somehow is more delightful than either, at least to me.)
The spaceship is represented in flight as a lit match; the actress playing the spacebabe split her skin-tight suit early during shooting, so she has to wait on away from the camera for the entire movie (actually, this is oddly effective) ; blaring chords sound when nothing is happening; people preserve referring to the resplendent alien lady as a bad monster; everyone keeps returning to the cabin for safety, even though the AS-M can and repeatedly does enter at will through a tremendous (and broken-out) window.
The funniest bit of all is revealed in the liner notes: the saga of the fill(s) primitive during filming. I won’t waste it for you, but it will invent me laugh and bawl forever. It is one of the most pathetically messed-up things I have ever heard happen in moviemaking, Battlefield Earth not withstanding.
If these things sound like a fun time to you, seize this movie speedy. Others beware.
I personally only wish I could have witnessed them making this movie at the time. That had to have been even MORE sharp.
P.S. The DVD transfer is unprejudiced OK, but I’m quite clear that’s only because the current film itself was heavenly shaky.
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