Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
mrquinella
The film is really, really bad. It is also laugh-out-loud funny! Like The Creeping Terror (which is hands-down, the worst monster flick of all time), this movie is so bad that it is good. The monster is fresh off the sale rack at Wal-Mart after Halloween. The sort of villainess enters and leaves the dungeon/prison through a standard door which, for some reason, the prisoners choose not to use to make their escape. And Tommy Kirk is shot in the abdomen midway through the movie, yet manages to fight off his 300-pound antagonist in the end. The flashbacks take up half the film. The gaffes are blatant...no decent film buff would even take any pride at spotting them. It is certainly among the top 5 of the worst movies of all time, and for that reason, it should be seen so it may be believed.
joebstewart
As others have said this movie is so bad that parts of it are good.I would say this is the worst movie I have ever seen. But it is good fun.I can see that it would play well on late night TV or in a drive inback in 1969. I liked the location shots and the crazy Mr. Greely. Andthe pretty blond. The monster was too lame for words. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen in a movie. Perod.But all in all a very campy movie. Pure trash. Reminded me of "The Thing" in Arizona. And "What is it?" South of the Border. A good play on tourist traps. A bit of a Psycho ripoff.
Woodyanders
Bickering couple Norman (stolid Corveth Ousterhouse) and Leilla (pretty blonde Shirley Bonne) find themselves hopelessly lost in some remote rural region. They seek assistance from deranged redneck farmer Greely (a game performance from beefy veteran exploitation picture regular Bill Thurman), who locks them both in a cave so he can feed them to his beloved pet lethal carnivorous reptilian humanoid monster (also played by Thurman). Flatly directed by legendary Grade Z schlockmeister Larry Buchanan, with a dull, talky, uneventful script, a sluggish pace, cruddy, washed-out color cinematography by Robert B. Alcott, a tedious drawn-out flashback that's just tossed in to pad out the running time, a generic film library orchestral mush score, a simply pathetic some-poor-zhlub-in-a-lousy-rubbery-suit creature, no tension or momentum to speak of, and a spectacularly fumbled less-than-thrilling explosive conclusion, this hilariously horrendous hunk of unmitigated junk possesses all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four-star stinkeroonie. Former Disney kid thespian Tommy Kirk seems asleep on his feet as paleontologist hero Wayne Thomas while Annabelle MacAdams does her best with the thankless role of Greely's scared and abused housekeeper Bella. Moreover, the misty cavern setting is genuinely cool and creepy. A tasty slice of prime celluloid Velveeta cheese.
emguy
I give this movie 1 star, but I mean it in a good way. ;-) How do you rate a hideously awful movie you have so much fun watching? It makes "Plan 9" look good. It makes "Manos" -- okay, never mind, not Manos. "Eegah" maybe, but not "Manos." This is one for the MST3K crowd. My brother and I had stumbled across it on TV many years ago. It was by far the worst movie we had seen up to that point, and we cracked up all the way through it.Years passed, and we had completely forgotten its title. I was on a slow quest to try to find the title again. Finally, finally, I described it in an online forum (before IMDb) and someone told me the title. The next quest was to find a copy. Time passed, and my lovely bride got me the DVD as a gift. We had to share it with our horrible-movie-watching gang.
