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- From: donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan)
- Subject: Re: Season wrapup
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- Keywords: Tor Johnson, meet Elvis
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:25:29 GMT
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- In article <62949@mimsy.umd.edu> carson@cs.umd.edu (Mark Carson) writes:
- >Fresh from BBI, here's the current take on the remainder of season four,
- >enriched with kooky kapsule reviews (it always helps not to have seen the
- >movies before reviewing them):
- >
- >
- >421 Monster a Go-Go
- >[Rubber suit time again, guys. But it's short, real short. Inside note:
- >original footage by Bill Rebane, "joked" up by "Sheldon Seymour" (Herschell
- >Gordon Lewis)]
- >
- Joked up? Hell, Lewis took 6 hours of footage with nothing going on, shot
- inserts, walking shots, and all sorts of crap just to make it LOOK like
- a movie. Henry Hite plays the guy who returns from space as a giant. Hite
- died several years ago when his ankles cracked from supporting his 7' +plus
- frame. Story is the same as The Quatermass Experiment essentially. Lewis
- only created this to have a double feature for his classic hillbilly epic
- "Moonshine Mountain"!
-
- >
- >423 Manos - the Hand of Fate
- >[Fickle finger's big brother. Shouldn't that be ManUs?]
-
- Hey, this is one of the best films ever made by a ferilizer salesman from
- El Paso!! Poodles are tortured in low rent backyard temples. Weird, and
- funny, even on it's own.
- <Well, only one poodle, but there are lots of "Harem Queens">
-
- >
- >424 Bride of the Monster
- >[Tor Johnson, as you've never seen him before! Yeah, he still just lumbers
- >around, but this time in a tux. And talk about short, this one's the same
- >length as Bambi (69 min)! Essay question: what other similarities do the
- >two films have?]
-
- Attention Plan 9 from Outer Space Fans!!!! This one is written and directed
- by Edward D. Wood Jr., and stars Bela Lugosi in his last speaking role!
- Talk about cheap, Bela was paid $1,000! Tor is Lobo, a victim of strange,
- budget experiments. Check out the octupus from "Wake Of The Red Witch"
- with John Wayne!! Great use of stock footage too!
- Oddly similar at times to "The Unearthly", where Tor also played a lumbering
- guy named Lobo, the victim of cheapo experiments!
-
-
- >
- >It looks like Charro! is off the list. I heard Elvis showed up at BBI and
- >convinced them not to do it - he was worried about the effect on his
- >career.
- >
- >--
- >Mark Carson carson@cs.umd.edu 301-240-7348
-
- No, Timmy talked them out of it.
-
- A couple of choice selections on the way, looks like!
- Can't wait!!!!!
- Pax
- --Judex--
-
-