A giant caterpillar, that I think is also supposed to be a big snail of some sort, rips the heads off of 1950's military personnel, The great thing about 50's monster movies is that they're usually pretty short. The bad news here is this thing drags on for almost 90 minutes which is way too long for this kind of deal. Luckily heads do get chomped off with big pincers every once in a while so that's nice. Also the monster has super dumb-looking googly eyes so that's something to laugh at. Besides that though there's lots of boring dialogue and science chit-chat. Probably woulda been cooler if this caterpillar-thing turned into a giant butterfly but we have to wait for 60's Japan to give us MOTHRA for that spectacle.
My problem is that the lead, Tim Holt, is so unlikeable, and I don't understand how he develops a relationship with Audrey Dalton/
ReplyDeleteHe does seem pretty lame and uptight. He is handy with that fire-extinguisher though. I guess ladies back in the 50's went for that sort of thing?
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