Not to be confused with that stupid 80s vampire movie with the similar title, this one is a stupid 60s movie with a monster who looks like a gorilla wearing an alien mask running around killing swinging 60s teens. The mighty John Agar(from a billion other monster and sci-fi movies of the 50s and 60s) stars as the sheriff who has to figure out how many bullets it takes to stop this rampaging mutant animal who crash landed from space after being sent their in some kinda weird Noah's Ark experiment with a bunch of other animals. What the purpose of this space zoo was I'm not exactly sure(something about testing the effects of radiation?) but it makes for a good enough, if not goofy, excuse for what's going on as anything else. Pretty brainless but entertaining enough for a hungover Sunday morning viewing. Just expect a lot of very bad-lighting in many scenes which I'm guessing was to describe the very minimalist creature design. This is purportedly a remake of 1964's THE DEMON FROM DEVIL'S LAKE but that's an even more obscure film than this one, and that's saying a lot! This got re-released in the 80s on VHS over in England as E.T.N., THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL NASTIE to try and cash in on all that lucrative E.T. money that was going around at the time. I can only imagine how disappointed some kid woulda been back then thinking he was gonna see some gore-filled monster romp when this thing started playing.
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