Alicia I love this movie so much

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

ShangLuda Admirable film.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Greensleeves Chase Cordell and his muscular physique star in this monster on the rampage movie. You'll see Chase posing shirtless, ripping his shirt off and putting his shirt on. Chase in little white shorts and Chase in a very nifty pair of polka dot pyjamas. Occasionally he gets into a lizard outfit to terrorise all and sundry. The only possible reason for watching this effort is to let your gaze linger over his toned body but depending on your proclivities you may prefer to cast your eyes over the long legs of Leigh Drake. Those are the high spots folks! If you want good acting, a decent script, terrific special effects or anything else you'll have to look elsewhere!

Bloodwank I gather this film gained prominence through mockery on Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Understandable I guess, laughter is a quite reasonable defence against the coldness of the universe, its scorn for our trouble. Paul is a lonely man, we see him first biking to a ridge for mineralogical study, he finds some kind of relic and is assailed by howls and a ceremonial mask. A disturbance in the force we might think, man drawn inexorably to some ill fate but it turns out to be a prank. The tension lifts but respite is temporary, as he makes his moves upon a lovely new friend a cosmic cock-block strikes down to deny even brief pleasure. See, a meteorite has recently collided with the moon, unleashing a swarm of fragments, one of which becomes lodged in his brain. And hence he is doomed to become the titular moon beast, and even make tracks. Well one. What makes this film really work is the way nothing is urgent before it gets too late. No one gets too bothered about Paul's injury, so it takes a while before he goes to a hospital. There are improbable murders, but people just go with the flow at the even more improbable explanations. An folk rock tune appears (California Lady) and even though the plot starts moving again before the end of the song they keep playing it over the drama. Its a cracking song and I like that they kept it in. Paul's new gal is devoted to him even though they only just met. Photographer, blonde, only a couple of expressions and even that may be an exaggeration. They're nice expressions though and she's quite a sweetheart, I felt for her. Paul is something of a tragic character, I felt for him too. He doesn't have much presence on screen, but that didn't detract. Aren't we all pretty fleeting on the screen of life after all?Then there's Johnny Longbow, American Indian professor and all round cool customer, with a great soup recipe. He's awesome, and if there were any justice he would be the star of a chintzy TV series about his ongoing exploits. People keep cool and its all soothing and strange, but then the downers kick in. The horror set pieces are too short to impress so its difficult to get a bead on where the film is going for most of the way, but then it all becomes clear. To the vastness of space people are an irrelevance, the lonely even more, mere specks of dust for arbitrary games. And as things built to an end I became rather sad. Afterwards I tried to laugh but somehow it ain't coming. The sky is no comfort to the lonely ladies and gentlemen, so throw down your telescopes. B minus film, but worth a watch.

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.

bababear I wanted to like this. The people who made it worked hard and, bless their hearts, did the best they could. But it still is a mess, despite some promising material that just isn't developed.In the first act we meet Paul. As in most of the movie his shirt is off, and he's digging in the desert. He encounters Johnny Longbow, two of his students, and a photographer named Cathy who has blond hair and a low room temperature IQ.One of the few surprises is that the two students aren't future victims. They're just there.We learn that Johnny got his Indian name because of his skill with a bow and arrow. Hmmmm? Could that come into play later? At the same time a huge meteor is headed toward the moon, and a spectacular meteor shower is promised for that night. Paul and Cathy go up in the mountains to get a good view. A meteor lands very near them, grazing Paul's head. Considering its speed and temperature that should have killed him, but I digress.In the long second act Paul's relationship with Kathy becomes more intense (I can't use the word deepens here, just won't fit) and we learn some back story. Paul's parents are divorced, he lives with his mom and she's in Europe, leaving him to roam around a huge house. Johnny's Indian background and the world of science often conflict. OK.Paul turns into a giant lizard that looks a little like the one in THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE from the seventies. He kills off some people who have no connection to the story. Say a few lines of dialog, scream, dead. We find that a shard of the meteorite is lodged in Paul's brain. Worse yet, it's fragmented and is spreading, rendering surgery impossible and a neurosurgeon introduced into the narrative superfluous. There are a few attempts to deal with a twenty-four year old man's confronting his own mortality, but that goes nowhere.In the third act Paul runs off to the desert, Cathy follows him, as does the rest of the supporting cast. Johnny fires an arrow with an arrowhead made from a piece of moon rock, strikes the monster in the middle of the chest causing it to melt into a puddle.The acting isn't really bad, but it's acting. None of the performances feel natural. Their work would be considered good, even excellent, in a community theater group in a small town. But make a movie and you're playing in the big leagues.The worst thing about the movie is the sound. I think every scene was re-recorded because voices sound the same whether people are in the desert, a house, a museum, a hospital, wherever.The print of the movie on my DVD (a Chilling Classics box set of fifty movies I got at Best Buy for $20) was very worn. The night scenes were splotchy and there were imperfections in the film print. Sorry, but it reminds me how films with equally low budgets look great today because they're shot on digital video.That said, I'm sure that here thirty some years later everyone involved can open conversations with, "Hey, do you know I made a movie once?"