![]() (Barbara Turner) accompany them into the region known as Green Hell, where a mutated race of giant wasps, spawned from Quent and Dan's original astro-wasp, are terrorizing the natives. ![]() Lorentz' assistant Arobi (Joel Fluellen) and his daughter Lorna There they pick up guide Mahri (Eduardo Ciannelli) but cannot reach their main contact Dr Lorentz (Vladimir Sokoloff) before the man gets killed while out looking for the monsters himself. A few days later the two scientists leave their desert lab to see if African reports of giant monsters are true. One such rocket goes haywire and gives its wasp passenger forty hours of gamma exposure before landing off course in Africa. Scientists Quent Brady (Jim Davis) and Dan Morgan (Robert Griffith) are shooting small animals into space to see if gamma rays produce mutations. Writing credits Endre Bohem and Louis Vittes Griffith, Eduardo Ciannelli, Joel Fluellen, Vladimir Sokoloff Starring Jim Davis, Barbara Turner, Robert E. I'm assuming that if you've read this far, you're ready to find out more!ฤก957 / B&W / 1:37 (looks best matted to 1:78) / 71m. On the other hand, She Demons has enough salacious and ridiculous content to make us shake our heads in disbelief, a reaction that passes for entertainment at this level of production. Savant can't resist the unadulterated awfulness of Monster from Green Hell, even though it consistently puts me to sleep (who needs pills?). Is either any good? Well, it depends on what entertains ye. Two new Image releases this week, from the ubiquitous Wade Williams collection, are Monster from Hey, I cried at the emotional ending of Teenagers from Outer Space, if that helps you understand where I'm coming from here. Savant's interest is pure nostalgia for the movies, yet also for my own childhood, when I went to the theater to see Missile to the Moon and had not the slightest notion that there was anything 'bad' about it. These are the kind of quickies cult fans go for, making all kinds of excuses for their interest. With so many low-budget '50s fantasy films coming out, the selection is quickly reaching down to the lower levels, where the so-bad-they're-good movies dwell.
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