Lately I\u2019ve been adding in a spoiler alert to these reviews to spare people who don\u2019t want the movie spoiled by my review of the plot.\u00a0 I\u2019ll skip it here because no one can care what the plot of this movie is.\u00a0 Basically, this is a British copycat of the movie \u201cThe Beast from 20,000 Fathoms\u201d which came out in 1953.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the special effects (such as they are) are even less impressive than the earlier incarnation of the story.<\/p>\n
Intrepid American scientist Steve Karnes is in Britain to warn his fellow scientists that all of the atomic bomb blasts have filled the ocean with radioactive plankton, fish and sea birds.\u00a0 And that eventually this would lead to giant mutated prehistoric creatures being awakened and attacking coastal cities.\u00a0 Well, he didn\u2019t actually say that but I could read between the lines.<\/p>\n
Sure enough a fisherman and his surprisingly pretty blonde daughter are returning from a fishing trip and while she returns to their home the old man lingers on the beach and is blasted by the eponymous giant behemoth.\u00a0 Apparently, the creature not only is highly radioactive but he also possesses the ability to use his electric eel-like power as if he were a gigantic bug zapper.\u00a0 Later on, the daughter and her not too smart boyfriend find the father.\u00a0 He\u2019s covered with radiation burns on his face and they arrive just in time for him to tell them that it was a \u201cgiant behemoth\u201d before he expires.<\/p>\n
And I say that the boyfriend is not too smart because near the dead fisherman he finds a blob of pulsating glowing, pulsating slime.\u00a0 So naturally he puts his hand into it and gets his own set of radiation burns.\u00a0 At this point Steve Karnes and his British sidekick Professor James Bickford show up and quickly figure out that a giant prehistoric sea creature has been turned into a radioactive death trap and they bring in the British Navy.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the Navy proves incompetent and various naval vessels, merchant ships, helicopters and even a passenger ferry are destroyed by the beast (mostly off-camera).\u00a0 But finally, when the beast climbs onto land in London, we get to see it.\u00a0 It\u2019s a sorry looking Claymation facsimile of a sauropod.\u00a0 And the animation of it walking through the London streets is almost comically bad.\u00a0 It chases after a lot of not too nimble Londoners for a long time.\u00a0 It zaps a bunch of people with its death ray.\u00a0 It knocks some bricks out of a wall onto some other Brits and finally picks up a guy in a car in its mouth and throws it to the ground.<\/p>\n
After this goes on for way too long Karnes and Bickford decide that what radioactivity can create, radioactivity can destroy!\u00a0 They will take a radium spearhead and use a torpedo to shoot it into the creature\u2019s head.\u00a0 Apparently, this will kill it.\u00a0 So, Steve gets into a crappy little submarine and voila, he shoots the behemoth and it\u2019s all over.<\/p>\n
But just as our heroes are congratulating each other for a job well done we hear a newscast saying that dead fish are washing up on the east coast of the United States.\u00a0 Oh no, here we go again!<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got to be a devotee of old monster movies to want to see this clunker.\u00a0 I know War Pig is in that category so if you\u2019re out there, this one\u2019s for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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