Monster a go go has been ranked 2540 times, wins 15. The sound of music won the academy award for best picture. Synergy entertainment brings the film to us on dvd once again in a full frame transfer thats as good. A space capsule crashlands, and the astronaut aboard disappears. Nov 23, 2008 monster a gogo 1965 this one screams a glorious low budget and if mystery science theater 3000 hadnt done a version of it id have been seriously surprised.
Monster a go go 1965 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Lewis, who simply added footage to the half finished film, terror in halfday, which he had purchased to help him make a secondbilled feature to go with moonshine. This is the same monster ago go you can find on the something weird video release paired with the absolutely stunning psyched by the 4d witch or as part of the mystery science theater 3000 catalog. This scifi fantasy may well be one of the worst movies ever made and should provide great fun for lovers of kitsch and camp as it follows the exploits of an accidentally irradiated astronaut henry hite who mutates into a 10foot tall rampaging monster after his last mission goes horribly awry. A description of tropes appearing in monster ago go. We later find that frank has been swapped instead with a lurking, tall radioactive monster humanoid which seems to allude the authorities every time its captured. Numerous vintage monster movies are so bad, theyre good. If any one picture fit that description, its monster a go go, which the director himself. Monster a gogo psyched by the 4d witch special edition. Monster a go go 1965 psyched by the 4d witch 1972 directors. The 10 most unwatchable films featured on mst3k paste. Reel truth history documentaries recommended for you. Dec 29, 2014 1965s monster a go go is an astoundingly bad film, enough so to be a true separation from the rest of the imdb bottom 100.
The movie is a patchwork built primarily from parts of an unfinished product that was poor in its own right, and then supplemented with original footage filmed years after the fact to complete the movie. Nazis on drugs ww2 documentary history documentary reel truth history duration. Jul 31, 2018 universally accepted as one of the worst films ever made, monster agogo was released july 1965. Connors and company soon come to suspect that douglas has been. Monster ago go tvpg 1h 10min horror, scifi july 1965 usa a space capsule crashlands on earth, and the astronaut aboard disappears. You could easily make a case for monster a gogo as the worst film ever featured on mst3k. Lewis went on to complete the film, and later released it as monster a go go. In celebration of the film s 45th anniversary, a special dvd collectors edition of the iconic cult favorite monster ago go is being released just in time for halloween, oct. The film itself falls into the worst category with not only a lethargic presentation but with its oddpieced editing style. When swv markets their latest dvd double feature as a wayout double feature, you know youre in for a treat. The film features barely audible dialog, countless scenes featuring nondescript people talking endlessly in equally nondescript rooms, and several excruciating stretches of complete silence. The picture that comes complete with a 10foottall monster to give you the wimwams. Monster a go go 1965 frank douglas henry hite is an astronaut whose spacecraft disappears while returning to earth.
With philip morton, june travis, george perry, lois brooks. No, monster agogo isnt a monster piece of crud because truthfully the unfinished bill rebane project actually shows some potential. A psychological history of the modern horror film from the 1950s to the 21st century. The black and white is a little soft, lacking the sharp definition of a remaster. Enjoy a rich lineup of tv shows and movies included with your prime. Monster ago go eventually reached the drivein screens in 1965. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. If you like monster a go go you are looking for scary, offbeat and serious movies about with laboratory, countryside, alien, giant, radiation, astronaut and murder themes of horror and scifi genre shot in usa. A theater in danville, virginia doubled monster a go go with the playpen on july 30, 1967. It is a black and white science fiction film directed by bill rebane and an uncredited herschell gordon lewis.
The film infamously ends with a terrible twist, anticonclusion in which the monster never actually existed and the astronaut was actually rescued days earlier in perfectly healthy condition. In 1965, director herschell gordon lewis needed another movie to round out a doublefeature with. Is there a connection between the missing man and the monster roaming the area. The 1965 spookshow monster a gogo began production as a film by bill rebane director of the giant spider invasion, until he ran out of money and blood feast auteur herschell gordon lewis stepped in. So he bought rebanes unfinished film, added a couple scenes with new dialogue, and presto. When a film loses a viewers interest 30 seconds into its runtime, you know youre in trouble. Of course they did, and considered it the worst film theyd seen up until that time. In celebration of the film s 45th anniversary, a special dvd collectors edition of the iconic cult favorite monster ago go is being released just in time for. Oct 12, 2015 unable to complete the film, rebane suffered a financial and career set back and arranged for the existing footage to be edited by herschel gordon lewis. In 1993, the film was featured in an episode of the satirical film riffing television series mystery science. This film, if it can be called that, is a travesty. The film is considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Rebane began filming the movie but ran out of money and abandoned it in 1961.
Stu taylor, peter thompson, dean tompis, june travis, bill rebane. Taking what rebane had already shotmainly scenes of a tall guy in a shiny spacesuit, with oatmeal on his facelewis added a poppy theme. Monster a go go 1965, usa is a scifi film directed by bill rebane. Jun 01, 20 nearly every aspect of monster ago go leads the viewer to the unavoidable conclusion that h. Monster ago go 1965 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Looking through, the theater listings i found for monster a go go were from midoctober 1965 in appleton and oshkosh, wisconsin, doubled with kwaheri the fires of puberty. Monster a gogo movie posters from movie poster shop.
Monster agogo 1965 frank douglas henry hite is an astronaut whose spacecraft disappears while returning to earth. According to contemporary film video critic shane dallmann, the film received precious little if any theatrical play anywhere else, and didnt get much more attention when it surfaced as an obscure home video release in the 1980s. Lewis simply didnt care about the quality of his final product. Buy monster a gogo movie posters from movie poster shop.
Bill rebane, victor luminera something weird videoimage entertainment. However, there is a mutant monster wreaking havoc nearby. Its original director abandoned it incomplete in 1961 when it was. Wikimedia commons has media related to films of the united states, 1965. Even worse, there is no alternative cut of the film. An army astronauts capsule returns to earth, but hes not in it. Jun 10, 2011 that may be like saying it is better to get colon cancer than lung cancer but monster ago go still more watchable, at least if you watch, as i did, the mst3k version which has plenty of great gags by joel and the bots to ease the suffering one may feel at points during a viewing of this truly inept film which falls in the category of truly bad. I think a little history is in order before we embark on our journey into this particular crevice in film hell.