Reptilicus (1961)
I quite like this rampaging giant reptile film as it seems to stand out from the rest of the giant lizards as it's a Danish film and lays waste to Copenhagen rather than the usual suspects of New York and Tokyo.
There's also a serious amount of hardware on show. I don't mean toy tanks either, the real thing. At one stage i thought it was stock footage from a huge budget war movie but it obviously isn't. IMDB buffoons say it's stock footage yet it's the same film stock as the rest of the movie...Well the rest of the movie when Reptilicus isn't on screen, because sadly, the green monster is quite poorly rendered but after a while you get used to it, or at least i do.
Reptilicus isn't the finest example of sixties monster movies but it's one i always enjoy. It also, surprisingly for a cheap as chips MGM Four set dvd , looks really good upscaled as do the other films - The Amazing Transparent Man, The Neanderthal Man and The Brain That Wouldn't Die. |