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An astronaut comes back to Earth and crashes in a field, incredibly irradiated and wreaking havoc. Just as they have him cornered, he disappears, and the "real" astronaut is found 7,500 miles away in the Pacific Ocean, "alive, well, and of normal size."
Movie Tagline:
The picture that comes complete with a 10-foot-tall monster to give you the wim-wams!
Also Known As:
Terror at Halfday
Title: Monster A-Go Go
Release Date: July , 1965
Runtime: 70 mins
Genre: Sci-Fi
All Genres: Sci-Fi, Horror
Languages: English
Country: USA
Colors: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB Rating: 1.4
Buried.com Rating: 2.4 - (Rate This Horror Movie at Buried.com)
Category: Horror Movies Starting With M
MPAA Rating: TV-PG
Director(s):
Bill Rebane
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Cast:
Phil Morton ...Col. Steve Connors
June Travis ...Ruth
George Perry ...
Lois Brooks ...
Rork Stevens ...
Peter M. Thompson ... (as Peter Thompson)
Robert Simons ...
Barry Hopkins ...
Stu Taylor ...
Lorri Perry ...
Del Clark ...
Art Scott ...
Leonard Gelstein ...
Aviva Crane ...
Dean Tompis ...
Jim Bassler ...
Rick Paul ...
Henry Hite ...Frank Douglas / Monster
Herschell Gordon Lewis ...Narrator (voice)
Bill Rebane ...Radio Announcer (voice)
Remaining Cast:
Producer(s):
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Henry Marsh
Bill Rebane
Writer(s):
Jeff Smith
Dok Stanford
Bill Rebane
Herschell Gordon Lewis
More Movie Taglines:
- The picture that comes complete with a 10-foot-tall monster to give you the wim-wams!
- How did a 10-foot-tall monster get into that little bitty space capsule?
- You've Never Seen a Motion Picture Like This -- Thank Goodness!
- A way-out tale of a far-out monster!
- An astronaut went up
- a "guess what" came down!
Movie Quote(s):
- Narrator: Suddenly there was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called Douglas to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness. With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size some 8000 miles away in a lifeboat.
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Movie Trivia:
- Although Henry Hite (who plays the monster) was 7 foot 6, the director still wanted the monster to be 10 feet tall so Hite was shot at an upward angle to make an already very tall actor look even taller.
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The film had a troubled production. Director Bill Rebane began shooting the film in 1961, but the production ran out of funding before it could be completed. Years later director Herschell Gordon Lewis was looking for a movie to play double feature with his film Moonshine Mountain (1964) when he bought the shot footage for Monster A Go-Go from Rebane. Lewis filmed some additional footage for the movie and added a voice-over narration (Lewis himself was the narrator) and released the film in 1965.
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The film was featured in a 1993 installment of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" (1988). The cast and crew of the show considered it to be the worst film they had featured until the infamous Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966). Monster a-Go Go (1965) is still considered one of the worst films ever to be featured in the series history.
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The reason that most of the characters simply disappear from the film without explanation was the original cast from the 1961 shoots couldn't be re-gathered for the completion of the film which occurred four years later.
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Keywords:
Astronaut, Space Capsule, Narration, Radiation, Secret Formula ...[more]
Keywords All:
Mysterious Death, Helicopter, Alien, Laboratory, Countryside, Civil Defense, Isolation, Scientific Military Collaboration, Microscope, Edited From Unfinished Film, The Twist, Giant, Murder, Experiment Gone Wrong, Mutated Human, Shrivelled Corpses, MST3K, Missing Person, Sewer Refuge, Giant Man, Low Budget Film, Independent Film, Shock In The End
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Rating: 2.4 out of 10.0 - 58 votes cast total
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