Movies and Beer Night

Professor Fether here. Last night Dr. Tarr and I sat down in front of the TV and popped in the 1965 psychotronic classic "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster." Oh yeah! What a movie! This flick fits right in to our kind of movie. It has everything: a space monster, a cyborg astronaut, a "butchy" princess, an effeminate henchman, a couple of songs, one music montage (using stock footage obtained from NASA), and lottsa girls in bikinis! See what I mean? As Dr. Tarr so aptly put it, "You'll laugh. You'll cry. You might even throw up!"

Here's the plot: When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet’s women, it’s up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties.

Yeah, that kind of sums it up. It doesn't mention that this movie is reputed to have the most stock footage of any movie ever made. Talk about yer padding! They do, though, actually manage to make good use of the stock footage...well, as "good" as anything about this movie.

Probably the funniest character in the movie is Dr. Nadir, played by Lou Cutell. His makeup job is a very bad imitation of the vampire Nosferatu, and he camps it up big time. He even manages to look at the camera a couple of times during his dialog. Cutell also appeared in numerous TV shows and movies, his latest appearance a supporting role in "The Wedding Crasher." he was also the Amazing Larry in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", one of our favorite (good) movies.

We really enjoyed this movie. We couldn't stop laughing. And the copy we watched, produced by Darksky Films, has one of the best insert booklets every included in a bad movie. It's absolutely hilarious and is worth the price of the DVD ($11.99) alone, if yer interested in movie-making history.

The good doctor and I give this movie 4 severed thumbs! You gotta grab a copy, sit back and laugh yer ass off!