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Giant Gila Monster [Import]

Don Sullivan (Actor), Fred Graham (Actor), Ray Kellogg (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: VHS Tape
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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The tranquility of a small Texas town is ruined when an enormous rear-projection lizard begins to terrorize the place! At first, the adults dismiss the kids' hysterics as nonsense. The sheriff is helpless and the adults fail miserably to defeat the thing, so it's up to the teenagers to take it on. Though this movie relies a little too heavily on plot and characters and not enough on giant lizards, it's still a fun slice of '50s camp. The lead character (played by Don Sullivan) sings some wildly inappropriate and goofy songs for some unintended comic relief. Rock & roll, hot rods, teenagers, huge monsters... all the elements are in place for this faintly ridiculous '50s funfest. --Jerry Renshaw

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dreck then, Dreck now April 3 2004
By Douglas Doepke
Format:VHS Tape
Golden Turkey Awards to the following: to Shug Fisher for proving that lovable town drunks are the real menace and should be locked away permanently, to special effects for proving that a single coupon to Toy's R'Us furnishes all the props a movie needs, to the luckless lizard for proving that a single narcotized expression gets you real screen time, to the composer of "Laugh Children Laugh" for turning an audience of nice Sunday school graduates into howling mad atheists, and finally, to the producers for believing this 70 minutes of unabashed treacle would actually convert switch-blade greasers into Pat Boone acolytes. The best way to view this 50's abomination now, as then, is passed-out in the back of a '57 Chevy. Some may call it camp -- it doesn't rise to that level. I still call it dreck.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Hokey 1950 Giant Monster Classic May 25 2004
By A Customer
Format:DVD
allthough the peeps below my review have their smart ellic remarks on this film i seem to like it.
i actually liked all the giant monster films in the 50's even tho im a 16 year old and wasnt ever around in those days i enjoy the movies today and if u want to pick the reviews of the idiots under me then its ur choice
i got my opinions and they got theirs
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2.0 out of 5 stars A movie saved only by its unintentional humor... May 17 2004
By Nancy A. Staab
Format:DVD
Where do I start on this turkey? The stupid story, the bad acting or the even worse singing. Yes, that's right, singing. This is the Sci-Fi movie that doesn't know if it's a story about a giant lizard or a vehicle to promote a new singing sensation. Well, they should have stuck with the lizard, because the singer was definitely not the next Bobby Darin. I awarded 2 stars because of the movie's saving grace: its unintentional humor.
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3.0 out of 5 stars average B-flick
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