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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:


 
  1. 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.
  1. 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).
  1. 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.
  1. 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.
  1. 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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