Sunday, February 1, 2015

Review 9- Monster a- Go Go (1965)

    Oh god, "Monster a-Go Go". More like "Monster A-No No!". This is officially the worst movie I've ever seen. And I use the term "seen" very lightly, because you can barely see anything in this movie. In matter of fact, Joel Hodgson said this is the worst movie he ever had to sit through, and the hardest to make skits about, so none of the host segments were related to the movie in their episode they riffed this on. Now, its time to tackle the big one, "Monster A- Go Go".


    The movie starts off with a really confusing shot of a man's dangling legs in space. Is he walking in space? Is he hanging out of a rocket ship's window? What is going on!?!?!? Then we see our opening credits, set to a song called "Monster A Go Go" that sounds like it was recorded with a cheese grater. The movie than officially starts with police officers looking up in the sky, at a person in a helicopter, with a narrator. Too bad I cant hear what the narrator is saying, but the sound is so terrible in this movie.

  Based on the research I did on this movie (I had to do research, because I couldn't hear the dialogue), the plot is about an astronaut named Frank Douglas (Henry Hite), who disappears from the sky. He is either turned into or been replaced with a monster that looks like a guy covered in band-aids. The military tries to capture him, but fails. They supposedly did, but their budget was too small to shoot that scene apparently. They get a telegram, saying Douglass is alive, which makes the entire movie pointless! We then hear the narrator rambling on about what the monster possibly could be, and we get the same confusing footage from the beginning.

   The directors Bill Rebane and Herschell Gordon Lewis should be ashamed. Even Lewis was smart enough to be uncredited. This was a painful experience I would never put myself through ever again. Terrible camerawork and terrible sound make this movie unbearable. I mean, I would've thought higher of this movie if I knew what was going on. Now, how about we follow the worst horror movie I ever seen with the worst ANIMATED movie I've ever seen?

My rating: 1/10  IMDB Rating: 2.4/10  Next Review: Tentacolino (2004)


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