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Gaseous vapors from an ancient mine cause the birth of a huge squealing embryo that is taken to the laboratory of a local mad doctor where it grows into a monstrous 8-foot mutant sheep. Meanwhile, the racist mayor of an historic Wild West tourist town attempts to thwart the efforts of a black man buying real estate by attempting to lynch him! Plans go awry, however, when the giant, wool-covered Lamb from Hell escapes from the doctor's lab and starts waddling across the countryside. Spewing an orange phosphorous gas, the semi-prehistoric Godmonster of Indian Flats terrifies the population, blows up a gas station, and even "dances" with a deranged hippie chick until it's lassoed by cowboys. The mayor then startles everyone by putting "the damaged mongoloid beast" on display as "The 8th Wonder of the World!"
Bonus feature: A crazed carnival geek escapes from a flea-bitten amusement park, joins the cross-country chase of naked stripper Josette Valague by gangsters and deputy sheriffs, and plays "Beauty and the Beast" with Miss Valague atop a rinky-dink roller coaster in The Girl and the Geek (a.k.a. Passion in the Sun), a riotous 69-minute Dale Berry horror nudie from 1964; 2 Bonus Nasty Nature Shorts: Rural Rat Control and Community Fly Control; 2 Bonus Oddball Shorts: E. Kerrigan Prescott in the musical number "You Cannot Fart Around with Love" from director Fredric Hobbs' Roseland, and hippie campers learn about the sex life of Sasquatch when they encounter The Geek; Gallery of Horror Drive-In Exploitation Art; Horrorama Radio-Spot Rarities
Review
As movie metaphors go, you aren't likely to find one as obtuse, or for that matter, as downright insane as Godmonster of Indian Flats. Part small-town political thriller, part environmental plea, part head movie, and part monster flick, experimental artist and filmmaker Fredric Hobbs' rarely seen final feature is a disjointed mess that misses most of its targets due to the impenetrability of its plotting. At its core, the film concerns the discovery of a mutant sheep embryo in a former Nevada mining town. When exposed to phosphorus gas, the mewling fetus grows into a huge monster and runs amuck. The town's unscrupulous mayor (Russ Meyer regular Stuart Lancaster) calls for the creature's capture, hoping to feature it as a tourist attraction for his newly revitalized town, which is undergoing an upswing thanks to some shady deals he's brokered with a major mining corporation. This secondary story line offers a few nuggets of dramatic interest, especially in the conflict between Lancaster and a black corporate representative (Christopher Brooks). But like so much of the film, these scenes quickly devolve into surreal weirdness, with the rep threatened with lynching by a masked vigilante group. Too earnest to succeed as camp, and too off-kilter to work as an independent feature, Godmonster of Indian Flats is, like its title beast, a visually memorable but ultimately ungainly animal. Image Entertainment and Something Weird Video's letterboxed DVD presentation is paired with some equally unusual supplemental features, starting with the 1964 oddity Passion in the Sun (aka The Girl and the Geek), which pits a blowsy stripper against an escaped carnival freak. An abbreviated, R-rated edit of the adults only sex-with-Bigfoot movie The Geek is also included, as are two '50s-era training films on pest control. A wealth of exploitation pressbook reproductions and vintage radio spots round out these enjoyable nature-gone-nuts extras. ~ Paul Gaita, All Movie Guide
