Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

classicsoncall Maybe a little bait and switch going on with the title? I didn't see any beast to speak of, and the million eyes? Sorry, just one big one at the end of the picture framing what might have been a bat. But at least my perception of the alien space ship was seconded by many other reviewers for the picture - it looked to me like a tricked out coffee pot! You know what was really bizarre? After that lengthy conversation between Mom Carol (Lorna Thayer) and daughter Sandy (Dona Cole) on why they call the creepy looking caretaker guy 'Him', because they didn't know what his name was and the poor mute couldn't tell anyone, guess what? It must have been a secret Dad Allan (Paul Birch) didn't share with anyone because all of a sudden he began calling the guy Carl. What was that all about? Well I don't go out of my way to see a Roger Corman film, but if one shows up on TCM or any other cable channel I'm not about to let it pass by without a look. This one had the same kind of dystopian feel as Corman's later picture "The Last Woman on Earth", with the same minimalist trappings and scant cast of characters. But then again, where else would you find a German Shepherd, a cow, some chickens and a bunch of birds all going berserk at the same time. Well wait a minute, I wonder if Hitchcock ever saw this film.Catching this picture on Turner Classics the other night I was surprised to see host Ben Mankiewicz conducting a short interview with Roger Corman himself! I don't know when that segment was originally produced but Corman looked absolutely great (ninety years old this year!) and not at all like I pictured him. Among other things, Corman explained what it was like making pictures on a limited budget, his preference actually because the bigger the budget, the more accountability there was to the studio financing the picture. This one looked like there was no accountability at all.

Hitchcoc The movie starts out with a pronouncement from some alien presence that he/it is going to take over the world, piece by piece, creature by creature. He manages to rein in a German shepherd and a cow, but the humans seem to be a lot more complicated. A family of three are living in a house in some desert area, growing something (not quite sure what). The guy's wife is fed up with their desperate condition and longs for her lost youth. Their daughter (no great prize as film stars go) wants to go to college but mom is filled with hatred for her unlimited potential. They also have a large man of limited mental capacity (and mute as well) helping them on the farm. He lies on his back in his room and looks at magazines. He also follows the girl to the swimming hole when she gets into her bathing suit. They have determined he is harmless and treat him much like the German shepherd. One day a high whiny sound is heard and the glassware and china is broken. Suddenly the animals become vociferous, attacking their owners. Apparently the problem is a Proctor-Silex percolator that is sending out signals. By influencing the animals and the slow guy, they will take over the house in the desert. Well, I suppose one needs to start small. This is every bit as bad as it sounds. The acting is horrible and there are really no special effects. Let this one drift off into space.

gavin6942 A dysfunctional family operating an isolated date farm in the California desert is threatened by the arrival of an extra-terrestrial.This film was made by American Releasing Corporation, the company that later became American International Pictures. This puts it firmly in the realm of Sam Arkoff, John Nicholson and Roger Corman. Corman produced this picture, and allegedly he helped direct it. Furthermore, it was apparently done on a budget of only $29,000 and using a tea kettle as the monster. A tea kettle? Yes.Sadly, it is rather disappointing as nothing much happens. Not even throwing Dick Sargent in the mix can save things. For Corman or AIP enthusiasts, it is a must see, but beyond that it does not have all that much to offer.

lemon_magic As Bill Warren has remarked elsewhere, the thing that distinguishes Corman's products (I have a hard time calling them "movies") is a spark of intelligence and inventiveness in the initial conception of whatever the movie is supposed to be about. You can almost always tell a Corman flick from other cheaply made exploitation flicks because there is just enough strength and imagination somewhere in the screenplay, and one or two of the actors are just barely good enough, to keep you from burning the print and assaulting the person who showed it to you.That's certainly the case here. The basic plot, about a disembodied alien life force beginning its takeover of Earth in an isolated, lonely desert community and taking over the minds of the lower beasts and birds to serve as the vessel of its wishes...well, it's an intriguing idea. However, the execution this time around is bad enough to make Larry Buchanan and Herschel Gordon feel good.The hero is a good looking (if somewhat stout) fellow with a heavy, halting, lugubrious delivery of every...damn...line...of...dialog that wears out its welcome in the first 10 minutes. The wife and the daughter are even worse - neither of them can maintain a consistent screen persona for more than 30 seconds at a time. These short-comings could have been corrected by a competent director, or maybe one with a budget that allowed for a couple of retakes, but that didn't happen here, so it's like watching community theater actors in a town of 600 struggling with a script written by a 14 year old who saw an Pinter play once.My fried Dave Sindelar, of sci-film.org fame, put it very well - it's as if they brought 70 minutes of film to the editors and asked them to create a 75 minute film. The animal attacks that might have made this interesting are unconvincing cuts between shots of animals posing and actors reacting in fright...it's painfully obvious that no one involved with this thing knew how to wrangle animals or stage a fight scene (the one between a young, unfortunate Dick Sergant and the mute farm hand wouldn't pass muster in a high school play). There are endless shots of actors running off into the distance. There are a couple of disconcerting sequences where the background music takes over in scenes where there should have been some dialog, and it's heavy symphonic stuff that doesn't really match the on screen action.Mostly, it's just a bust. Having seen it once, I can see where "American Releasing Corporation" (soon to become AIP) developed its house style, so there might be a little historical value to it...but otherwise, don't expect much from "Beast".