Directed by Bill Rebane and Herschell Gordon Lewis
Written by Jeff Smith, Dok Stanford and Bill Rebane
1965/US
B.I. and L Releasing Company
First viewing/YouTube
[box] Narrator: What you are about to see may not even be possible, within the narrow limits of human understanding.[/box]
Well at least the poster colors match Christmas! Unfortunately, not recommended at Christmas or any other time.
A space capsule lands on earth but its astronaut is missing. There are no signs of his body but a highly radioactive field in the area. At the same time, a ten foot mutant monster roams the streets wreaking havoc. Is he the missing astronaut or is it all just a coincidence?
The monster barely shows up at all and when he does could not outrun a small child. The rest of the movie tries and fails to be hip. 90-minutes that just drag out interminably. Watched the MST3K version after the original and the badness is only intensified.
Clips
There was a time in the 1990s when I was a watching a lot of bad movies and I remember there were several films that made me realize that there were really really bad movies floating around that created a whole new level of badness that I never knew existed.
Monster-A-Go-Go was a HUGE revelation to me.
I remember Robot Monster made me realize that Ed Wood wasn’t even close to the worst director of all time.
And then Monster-A-Go-Go made Robot Monster look like Yojimbo or Wild Strawberries in comparison.
And then Red Zone Cuba made Monster-a-Go-Go look like competent filmmaking.
I’ve never seen anything that made Red Zone Cuba look good.
Red Zone Cuba I believe is coming in 1966! Can’t wait. Enjoy the winter holidays.