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Gluttony
06-03-2004, 03:30 PM
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

A fat refugee from the KGB is run down and mutated by an atomic explosion... becoming the beast! Then there are some people who get choked to death... a naked lady... getting choked to death... and then Tor Johnson dies. The End!

If you like cheese, this is what the world was created for. Though not as outright enjoyable as Plan 9 From Outer Space and Robot Monster, this movie is seminal for the genre. The movie was recorded without sound, so there isn't much to listen to besides fifteen lines of dubbed dialogue, a melodramatic musical score, and director, Coleman Francis, reciting some of the most blow hard narration ever written down. I think Ed Wood would be SO proud!

I suggest this film to only those without a weak heart, the sheer badness is overwhelming even in it's scant 54 minute running time. There are logical errors every where, the opening is never explained, the ending is abrupt and unconvincing, and Tor doesn't make much of an antagonist when the worst deed he does is choke people to death and slowly run after kids with a big stick. Truly hilarious, but not much else.

6 out of 10

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Elgyn
06-05-2004, 12:15 AM
I saw this movie.....on MST3K.:p :p :p


It`s really just Tor Johnson wandering around the desert in a torn-up suit.

the dead one
06-05-2004, 03:58 AM
Good ol'e Tor Johnson...It's really kind of funny when you look at his whole career(As short as that was) he was a wrestler turned actor!! The ROCK says! Some things never change.

But I do dig TOR, his visage went on to become the most popular selling halloween mask in the world! Plus, he appeared in many Ed Wood Classics.

Elgyn
06-05-2004, 10:52 PM
Originally posted by the dead one

But I do dig TOR, his visage went on to become the most popular selling halloween mask in the world! Plus, he appeared in many Ed Wood Classics.



Oh yes, I own one of those masks!

Ever seen the Tim Burton documentary "Ed Wood"? The guy they got to play Tor Johnson (wrestler George "The Animal" Steele) looks JUST like him! Great movie too.