Reptilicus (Full Screen)

Living in the ruins of once was a frosty, nordic version of Plesentwille, I may be quite inhabil to give a truthfully review about the dokosoap of CPHdestruktion.

The sad facts is, this film is the very reason why danish films forever after is doomed to dwell among the chruel shaddows of realism!

Cant understand why Reptillicus failed to hit blockbusterlevel: Exellent acting ( If you could understand the exact dialog and level of voices your feet would crumble), super special effects ( if you blink very fast you almost can't see that the monster is manuvered around the streets on top of a constructionvagon!) and even SINGALONG-SONGS!!! Whoa! This was a strict demand from Scala studio ( a former major danish moviestudio who amazeing enough produced the movie ) cause in 1940-70 there had to be songs in EVERY danish film.
The "funny-carakter" in the movie is, belive it or not, the most fameos danish comedian at that time, and they had to put him in the movie, horrorfilm og not!
The film flopped totally, and at Scalastudio you litterelly speaking got fired to mention this film! True!

But anyway, patriot or not, I love this silly film. Just the scene from "Langebro" ( name of the bridge that goes up ) is a masterpice. Lots of totally unpripered ekstras ( not stuntmen, mind you!) is going faceforward down the icy wather, no safty just do it. Yep, welcome to the nonexisting stuntschool of Denmark!

So dont mind my lousy spelling, just run to get it, your view of monsterfilms will never be the same again!
Patrick Leis

The film begins with Danish copper miners exploring for mineral deposits and finding some strange reptile flesh, which when taken to the laboratory eventually transforms into Reptilicus, a lizard with a nasty attitude. The UN spends the last half of the film chasing him around with tanks, ships, etc.; only when scientists and the military get together can they find a solution to their infestation problem.

This is typical early 1960s fare: silly monster, silly dialogue, lots of padding (yes, even musical interludes) and ludicrous special effects (especially the 'acid slime' and the farmer getting eaten scene) combine to make this a classic. Considering when it was made and the novelty of it being from Denmark, this is a decent drive-in movie. It is a little more ponderous and stuffy than some of the contemporary monster movies from the US, so it doesn't rate five stars for camp value, still, a pretty fun picture to watch with the right frame of mind.