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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jun 15, 2006 21:58:34 GMT -8
Cast (in credits order)
Marilyn Hanold .... Princess Marcuzan
James Karen .... Dr. Adam Steele (as Jim Karen)
Lou Cutell .... Doctor Nadir
Nancy Marshall .... Karen Grant
David Kerman .... General Bowers
Robert Reilly .... Capt. Frank Saunders/Frankenstein
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Alan Browne .... Spaceman (uncredited)
Bruce Glover .... The monster (uncredited)
Susan Stephens .... Blonde Surf-bather (poster girl) (uncredited)
what a fun movie, tho we could use a bit more of Frank fighting the monster!
aliens invade Puerto Rico, stealing our women for their breeding. accidently stopping them is our unlikable Adam Steele and his creation, who is far more likable.
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Post by Torgaman on Jun 16, 2006 9:16:35 GMT -8
That film is crazy.I remember watching it and thinking it was filmed by amateur actors who worked at a local tv station.Hehehe
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Post by RedKing on Jun 16, 2006 9:32:25 GMT -8
This is definitely a nutty, fun movie! I started a thread on it a coupla months back after I watched my dvd-r of it one night. Did anyone get the legit disc? The movie is supposed to be widescreen, but David said it's one of those stupid cropped ones! I suspect it probably is as well as I doubt the movie was filmed in widescreen to begin with!
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jun 17, 2006 14:57:45 GMT -8
i must have missed your review! darn it all.
the film is 'boxed' at 1.85:1 or so, but i didn't notice any cropping of the picture. of course, i haven't seen a fullscreen version in years, so i could be way off about it.
the picture and sound are nice, tho there are a few missing frames of sound here and there, causing some skips. this is on the Dark Sky disc. it's nice. plus it has the trailer!
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Post by amphiboid on Jun 18, 2006 22:52:45 GMT -8
I just watched the new DVD release this evening, and had a lot of fun with it. The movie looks great! Very clear. Classic cheese-ball!
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Post by RedKing on Jun 23, 2006 10:35:52 GMT -8
Hmmmm, I can't find the post I started on this. I thought it was in sci-fi flicks, but i could be mistaken. It was just about 2 months ago too. Anyhoo, the Dark Sky disc sounds pretty good. I'm going to rent it to compare to the high quality dvd-r I have. I bought my copy a couple years ago and it's a "professional bootleg" disc with an actual motion menu and it has all the same(or most) extras as the Dark Sky release, but it's fullscreen. I'll post results as soon as I get the disc from Netflix. Of course, as I'm thinking about this, all this work and attention is really more than the movie itself deserves! hehe  But someone needs to investigate these things, for duty and humanity!  |
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jun 25, 2006 19:33:40 GMT -8
i enjoyed it, and thought the disc looked fine. i'll be interested in hearing your comparisons of them though. i do wish there had been more fighting between the title characters, a couple skirmishes before the big battle at the end.
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Post by hman on Jun 26, 2006 2:38:05 GMT -8
I only saw this movie for rent once, and that was at Blockbuster Video over 13 years ago (back when Blockbuster was actually a good place to rent movies at). I didn't get it because it didn't interest me...besides, I rented the first Godzilla movie and Godzilla vs. Gigan that night (both for the first time).
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Post by amphiboid on Jun 26, 2006 8:04:53 GMT -8
As I recall, Ken Films (I think it was them??) had a Super-8 200-foot version available? Or am I mis-remembering. Man, to think that a person could have easily purchased a condensed film version of this and watched it on a wall....now that's whacky.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jun 28, 2006 18:59:52 GMT -8
i think you are correct about that. it always looked so cool, Frank zapping the monster with a ray gun. of course, that doesn't happen in the movie, but it's quite a ride!
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Post by RedKing on Jul 1, 2006 5:34:18 GMT -8
OK-I've had the chance to review the Darksky disc against the fullscreen dvd-r of mine and I'm happy to report that the DarkSky print is an actual widescreen copy. There is a slight cropping of the image at the top of the screen, but the image loss is really negligible and may be from the source print itself. The DarkSky print looks very nice compared to the old fullscreen one as well. A very nice disc indeed! As for the old 8mm version, I'd love to get a copy of it. I bought a regular 8mm projector at a garage sale a couple years ago for 2 bucks and it works fine, so I've since gotten a handful of 8mm movies for it and they are really great.For Halloween this year I'm planning to runn them against the garage door like a drive-in theater.
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Post by amphiboid on Jul 3, 2006 9:00:12 GMT -8
Ah! You know, everyone remembers Super-8 but very few people remember Regular 8. For a little while there was a lot of "dual 8" equipment that could run both (projectors, editors). I miss all that great stuff. Back then, having a movie you could show was a really big deal. Now there's all this incredible video in widescreen and surround sound, but it's so commonplace...back in 1977, if someone had told us about the video stores and DVDs the future would bring, we wouldn't have believed it! Nowadays people go down the street and come back with a stack of movies and don't even think twice about it.
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Post by RedKing on Jul 9, 2006 12:40:58 GMT -8
How true! Back in the early 80s, just before vcrs, from about 1981 to mid 1984 when we got our first vcr, I used to tape record movies with my old portable tape recorder. Kids today just take all the home video technology for granted. Remember having to stay up to 3 am if you wanted to see a favorite movie-there was no setting the timer or just renting the video of it in those days! As for the old 8mm movies, the regular 8s are fewer and harder to find than the Super 8s. I'd love to get a Super 8 or dual projector sometime, but seeing as the projector I have only set me back 2 bucks and it really works great and is in really good shape, I'm not complaining! I have 5 or 6 movies for it, which I bought in the first month or so after getting the projector. I'll probbaly try getting some more from ebay sometime soon -if you look really carefully, you can find ones for 5 or 6 bucks rather than the 25 or more some dealers on there charge. Franky meets the space monster is definitely one I'd love to get!( Like how I got the post back on topic there? ) |
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Post by Zone Fighter on Jul 9, 2006 20:33:09 GMT -8
Before VCRS I had a mono audio cassette recorder I used to tape tv sound tracks and songs off the radio. I wish I still had those tapes. There's a song from a Zorro tv series I'd like to hear again. I've tried looking for it on the web but I can't find it.
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Post by amphiboid on Jul 11, 2006 17:58:54 GMT -8
Good golly, I used to do that too! The first movie I did that with was "Ghidrah, the 3-Headed Monster," back in the mid-70's...didn't get the whole movie but I had about twenty minutes of it...it was the first thing I thought of doing with the clunky old Hitachi tape recorder which was modern and cool at the time...just put it next to the TV speaker while the movie was playing. Later on I did that with several other films--most notably the Universal monster movies. But yeah...I remember listening to Ghidrah and Godzilla noises on that little tape deck...it was a natural thing, I guess, wanting to "capture" the monsters in some way...I suppose we just couldn't deal with the idea of the movie playing on TV but not giving us any souvenirs?
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jul 14, 2006 18:38:55 GMT -8
i taped lots of stuff as well- then didn't realize that the batteries would run down, which slowed the tape down. upon replaying it, the Chipmunks then took over talking about Godzilla!
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Post by RedKing on Jul 14, 2006 19:57:55 GMT -8
I taped alot of Universal movies too with my old Panasonic recorder. Then my local UHF channel started running the AIP Japanese monster library in early 1984, and of course, finished up just before we got our first vcr! I actually continued making tapes well into the early 90s, until the first bootleg tapes of the soundtracks became availible, and then the actual CDs themselves. I liked being able to hear the sound effects and roars along with the music sometimes instead of just the music.
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Post by RedKing on Jul 24, 2006 20:01:35 GMT -8
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Post by stareater on Oct 1, 2006 8:09:16 GMT -8
This used to be on a New York station (Channel 5) here in Connecticut two or three times a year when I was a kid. I always had fun watching it. I can't tell you how many times I filled out that coupon in Famous Monsters magazine for a Super 8 projector and this reel, along with many others. I never mailed away for them, but must've filled 'em out about a hundred times.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Oct 1, 2006 15:36:45 GMT -8
when you think that it was $2.95 for a 50' reel and $9.95 for a 200' reel- that's a lot of money in 1970s dollars! there were a TON of movies i always wanted from Ken films, but never ordered, what kid had that kind of money? that's gotta be close to $30 in today's money.
and now we can get complete movies for $10 or so.
this DVD has a great booklet in it, so i recommend it.
David
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Post by amphiboid on Oct 2, 2006 11:19:32 GMT -8
Yeah...yeah, I used to go through that Ken Films catalog a lot. I only actually ordered, I think, two or three movies from them. And generally these were the little 50 foot versions, which came in really cute little boxes, if I may use such language. They had color sound versions of some films, and I would see those and think, "Gahhh!" because a sound projector was way wayyy too expensive to think about. But I remember ordering a couple of Super-8 silent 50-footers, and it was the most mindblowing thing, at that time, for the UPS guy to drive up with a puffy envelope with a little movie in it. Jeez, to think of it!
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But someone needs to investigate these things, for duty and humanity! 
