Track of the Moon Beast

1976 "The Rising Moon Creates a Monster"
2.3| 1h30m| PG| en
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Professor "Johnny Longbow" Salina, a man who really knows his stews, introduces Paul Carlson to the practical-joking Kathy Nolan. Paul and Kathy seem to hit it off rather well but, during a meteor storm, a meteorite fragment strikes Paul, burying itself deep in his skull, which has the unpleasant side-effect of causing Paul to mutate into a giant reptilian monster at night and go on murderous rampages. It turns out that this sort of thing has happened before, when Professor Salina rediscovers ancient Native American paintings detailing a similar event many centuries ago. Kathy, however, still loves Paul, and tries to save him.

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Also starring Leigh Drake

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ada the leading man is my tpye
Diagonaldi Very well executed
Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
O2D Watching these movies is such a mind numbing waste of time.As boring and terrible as this movie is, I still can't help but notice how similar the plot is to Bride of the Gorilla.The only difference is that Perry Mason got poisoned by a native and the fool in this movie gets whacked in the dome with a meteorite.The rest is the same.They go out at night and kill and we never really see what the monsters look like.But the similarities are only in the plot.Everything else about this movie is inferior.The acting is terrible, there's no action at all and almost everything that happens doesn't matter.The only good thing is that there is a hot chick that always wants to make breakfast.How can you not like that?Two stars, one for the hot chick.
bkoganbing An old Indian legend comes to life when a visiting professor gets bopped on the head by a moon pebble during a meteor shower. Or was it an asteroid pebble, I'm not sure.An asteroid collides with the moon and that sends a lot of space debris from the asteroid or the moon flying into space. This poor guy gets hit with a pebble from one of them and he gets his DNA mixed up with his pet komodo dragon and turns into a Moon Beast. This occurrence rings a bell with some of the local Indian tribes who have a legend about such a thing.This film is so bad they don't even try to come up with a rational science fiction type explanation for this. And it was released without any end credits. I guess everyone wanted to keep their anonymity if possible rather than be associated with this.
jfgibson73 The reputation this movie has is deserved. It is slowly paced, badly acted, and poorly filmed. I saw the MST3K version and it was still a chore to sit through.While studying minerals in the desert, a young, handsome scientist hooks up with a Native American professor and a young, beautiful reporter. While doing research, the central character is hit by a piece of meteorite, which lodges into his body. This causes him to turn into a giant lizard monster at night. We don't really see much of the monster, robbing us of one of the only fun things the movie had going for it.Probably the highlight of the movie is the concert footage, where they characters go to watch a folk band perform a ridiculous song called California Lady. The MST3K segment where they do a fake "Behind The Music" on this group is one of the more memorable bits from the show's history.I think the movie ends with the main character getting killed, but I wasn't really paying attention. I had to find other stuff to do while it was going on just to get through it. Plenty of bad movies are still entertaining. This one was mostly boring.
Seb Track of the Moon Beast has a simple story to tell you, a meteor falls turning a man into a lizard beast when the moon is full. At the start some jokers make a howling noise in the hills to mildly surprise their friends. When they emerge after this merry jape they gobble up about ten minutes of screen time explaining the whys and wherefores of this little gag. But it doesn't end there, the entire film is littered with explanations of things you neither care about nor really need to know. Oh remember when you did this? What about the time this happened? Show it, or shut up about it! Most of it isn't relevant anyway.The acting in this one is just horrible and the script is full of moments where they all laugh and share a warm moment that excludes the audience because what they are laughing about isn't funny and what's going on is really drab and boring. The monster is a joke, day turns to night and night to day randomly and the whole thing alternately looks like it was filmed about six inches from the sun or inside a black hole depending on whether or not they remembered to turn the lighting on before shooting a scene.This is one boring pointless movie, so little happens that within fifteen minutes of it ending you'll be hard pressed to remember one significant scene. Even bad movie fans will struggle to find anything entertaining with this one.

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