Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

soulexpress THE GIANT CLAW contains damned near everything that makes bad '50s sci-fi so much fun: a goofy-looking monster; scenes of destruction with Styrofoam buildings, model cars, and HO-gauge trains; made-up science (my Google search of "masic atoms" turned up nothing); scientific equipment slapped together with whatever junk was handy; a female lead with a brilliant mind who nonetheless does all the "girl" things like serving coffee to the men; and the usual dollar-store acting.The story: a killer bird the size of a battleship (and with teeth) flies around the Earth on a swath of destruction. It is impervious to guns, bombs, and fighter jets, nor does it appear on radar screens. Scientific analysis of a discarded feather concludes that the bird emits a protective energy shield that makes it nearly invincible. Also, since the feather contains no elements known on the Earth, the bird must be an extraterrestrial from some anti-matter galaxy millions of light years away. (Don't you dare question it!) As the lady scientist deduces, the bird came here to build a nest and lay an egg. When the film's heroes shoot up the egg with rifles, it seriously pisses off the bird, which sets about trashing a cheap mock-up of New York City. (Did you know that buildings explode when a monster claws off a chunk of its top floors?)I watch films like THE GIANT CLAW for the same reason I listen to records by the Shaggs: they're fundamentally awful, but I can't help loving them.

manisimmati The Giant Claw – a huge, superfast bird thingamabob terrorizing the earth. They can't kill it with military weapons. But maybe there is hope, because Mitch (Jeff Morrow) and Sally (Mara Corday) work on a way to defeat the bird with the help of (dramatic drum roll) science!"Yet another monster flick", you might think – and you'd be perfectly right. Why should you watch this one? Because of the Giant Claw itself. It is a truly wondrous creature: a hideous puppet with a wrinkled face, off-standing hair and enormous pop eyes. As a movie monster, it's as ludicrous as it gets. Surprisingly enough, the movie itself is pretty okay. Director Fred Sears doesn't make as many catastrophic blunders as you'd expect. This isn't an Ed Wood movie, after all. It's just that the contrast between the fairly serious story and the silly bird is as pungent as it's funny. As a trash movie, it might be a bit underwhelming. Still, you haven't lived until you saw the amazingly ugly Giant Claw.

Hitchcoc While the producers were trying to come up with a plot (which they barely did), one could think they would try to put some quality into this film. As it turns out, it's a big rubbery bird, hanging on a string, terrorizing the populace. It is just a dumb monster movie,only the monster is downright laughable. It squawks, it yelps, it bounces in the air. The sad thing is that some real movies that could have been made probably didn't. It also has some actors who have been in reasonable films wasting their time in this thing. Oh well, if you just want to make fun of something, have a look. Maybe after a few beers. It's a mess.

AaronCapenBanner Fred F. Sears directed this science fiction/horror picture that stars Jeff Morrow as pilot Mitch MacAfee, who one day reports seeing a huge UFO flying overhead. He is not believed, but is later proved right when the "UFO" is identified as...a giant outer-space bird with big bulging eyes and a Mohawk which is composed of anti-matter, and proceeds to decimate the world! Oh Boy... Astonishingly(even staggeringly!) inept film has the most jaw-dropping, god-awful model F/X ever seen in a motion picture. Truly laughable and cringe-inducing at the same time. Actors were reportedly embarrassed by the big turkey when they saw the finished film, and who can blame them. Ludicrous plot and cheap production only makes this all-time worst film candidate even worse.