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This is an article from
the magazine Video Eyeball in the mid-90's.
Eyeball
Awards
IT CAME
FROM THE GARAGE
Five Unbelievable
Monsters for Non-Discerning Viewers:
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5. REPTILICUS ('62)
- A painfully obvious dinosaur marionettte (dubbed "Ridiculous" by AIP head
Samuel Z. Arkoff) spews toxic vomit and gobbles up Danish farmers as it
mounts a feeble attack on old Copenhagen. From the director of Journey
to the Seventh Planet ('62), another hard-to-believe drive-in flick.
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4. THE GIANT CLAW
('57) - A giant squawking space fowl terrorizes New York, destroying several
toy stores' worth of jet planes before laying an egg on Quebec (we can't
make this stuff up). Flying on highly visible wires, this turkeyneck
accomplishes the impossible by making Reptilicus look pretty good by comparison.
With Jeff Morrow of This Island Earth ('55) and Mars Corday (Tarantula,
'55).
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3. THE BRAINIAC ('61)
- A Satan-worshipping Spanish baron is bburned at the stake and returns
300 years later with Halley's comet to wreak vengeance on his inquisitors'
ancestors. Landing in a papier mache meteor, the Baron periodically
turns into a hairy, long-nosed monster with a pulsating head (think: Jamie
Farr) and an enormous forked tongue, with which he sucks out his victims'
brains.
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2. THE CREEPING TERROR
('64) - An alien spaceship yields a pair of hideous shag carpets with enormous
yarn heads topped with vacuum hose attachments that creep very slowly
around Lake Tahoe on several pairs of gym-sneakered feet and break up a
fishing trip, a hootenanny, and a dance before being blown up. If
you think the monsters look bad, watch when victims have to push themselves
into their "mouths" to look like they're being eaten.
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1. BLOOD FREAK ('72)
- A biker (director Steve Hawkes) eats ppoultry filled with experimental
preservatives and becomes the stupidest looking monster in world cinema
history, bar none : a bell-bottomed, gobbling turkey monster that craves
the blood of drug dealers!
- Paul
Gaita
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