Oct 29, 2012 the giant gila monster has just about everything you could want in a bad movie. Starring don sullivan, lisa simone, fred graham, shug fisher. This lowbudget bmovie starred don sullivan, a veteran of several low budget monster and zombie films, and lisa simone, the french contestant for miss universe of 1957, as well as comic relief shug fisher and klif disc jockey ken knox. Were giving away a giant gila monster mount to a few lucky replies. Giant gila monster wikizilla, the kaiju encyclopedia. The bulk of the film revolves around the sheriff and his peculiar codependency with a teenage tow truck driver. They didnt use rear projection or blue screen or anything, just cuts from live action shots to shots of lizards walking though miniature sets.
On tap right now is an exclusive clip from the remake of the 50s film the giant gila monster, known simply as gila. The giant gila monster voiceovers were good for a laugh too. If you want to start a main thegiantgilamonster page, just click the edit button above. I think it would have fared better from either sticking to the formula, or coming up with an even more ridiculous plot like chase engaging in a drag race with the gila monster in order to win the survival of his friends. A giant lizard terrorizes a rural texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature. What they discover is a mutant gila monster large enough to destroy the whole town. Lisa is asked by an unnamed girl why she was late and. Giant gila monsters are over one hundred times larger than normal gila monsters and produce more food sadly, not 100 times as much food. Jul 16, 20 yes, ray kelloggs the giant gila monster 1959 is every bit as dumb as its title suggests. Written by jay simms, based on a story by ray kellogg.
A giant lizard terrorizes a rural texas community with a heroic teenager attempting to destroy the creature. The gila monster itself is resin, painted to look like the main lizard in the film it appears there were several used. The giant gila monster is a great movie to watch with a group and make fun of throughout. Makes a good double feature with attack of the giant leeches. The giant gila monster is a 1959 hot rod monster science fiction film directed by ray kellogg, and produced by ken. But it all comes together to make a very funny movie. The tranquility of a small texas town is ruined when an enormous lizard begins to terrorize the place. Cast and crew credits for the giant gila monster, 1959, directed by ray kellogg, with don sullivan, fred graham, lisa simone, at turner classic movies. The gila monster lumbers around in a set that gives us nothing that shows the creature is huge. Nov 19, 20 a giant lizard terrorizes a rural texas community with a heroic teenager attempting to destroy the creature. The giant gila monster 1959 film completo sub ita by cinema zoo.
Motion pictures the giant gila monster 1959 discussion in the hokey ass message board started by hemi32, oct 10, 2010. Oct 10, 2010 another vote for the giant gila monster. Add to that the fact its as threadbare a production as its year and kidsvs. The roadster that chase winslow don sullivan drives in the movie was nhra nationals bsr winner from texas. I have been a mst3k fan since the very early days, but the giant gila monster is a painful experience punctuated by zingers from joel and the bots. As teenage lovers pat wheeler grady vaughn and liz humphries yolanda salas. But, when their bodies are found in a nearby creek. In the giant gila monster, most of the plot is given over to a group of hotrod enthusiasts, headed by niceguy chace winstead don sullivan, who sometimes breaks into song. At first, the adults dismiss the kids hysterics as nonsense. Don sullivan, lisa simone, shug fisher, jerry cortwright, beverly thurman, don flourney, pat simmons, fred graham 1959, 74 minutes, directed by. Mar 07, 2017 the giant gila monster tries to put a twist on the usual monster flick by mixing creature feature and teen hot rod film. He just shows up in a desert town one day, looking for people to eat and cars to wreck.
The giant gila monster in the giant gila monster is an impostor. A badly rearprojected giant lizard stomps through model texan towns and terrorises the local teens, who always seem to be. I found myself hypnotizeddistracted as the monster came sneaking up behind its first victims it weighs about 23 tons, so its nice and quiet. With tobias wilson captured, the circus was shut down and whatever happened to his captive creatures remains a mystery. Ymmvthe giant gila monster if you meant one of those, just click and go. Soon the lizard is terrorizing the town, and only chase can stop it before its too late.
Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. The giant gila monster is a 1959 hot rod monster science fiction film, directed by ray kellogg and produced by ken curtis. A teenage hot rodder don sullivan and his buddies meet a large lizard that devours trees. When the giant gila monster attacks, you are so frighteneddisgusted you cant help yourself. Sullivan, the leader of a local hot rod group, agrees to help the sheriff, and together they discover evidence of a giant lizard roaming the desert. The giant gila monster horror movie 1959 widescreen. Don sullivan, fred graham, lisa simone, shug fisher, bob thompson, janice stone, ray kellogg. It was the perfect choice for mystery science theater 3000 because despite being bad, it is still a fun film. The left side represented the opening scene of the cafe parking lot area, with the garage scene to the right of the building. As teenage lovers pat wheeler grady vaughn and liz humphries yolanda salas are sharing a romantic evening in pat. Gila monsters lie between a tiger and a lion in size, and are not aggressive, so can be hunted for food. Images dvd of the giant gila monster is a good transfer of a 35mm print in decent condition, with frequent light scratching that somehow doesnt offend. I modeled the scene at the garage, and tried to include as many cars as possible. When i first started on this diorama the set was twice as wide.
Unfortunately the movie is a real drag no pun intended as it focuses too heavily on. Theres bad acting, bad script, bad effects, even bad musical numbers. Yes, ray kelloggs the giant gila monster 1959 is every bit as dumb as its title suggests. With don sullivan, fred graham, lisa simone, shug fisher. I dont recall the owners name, but there was a write up in national dragster about ten years ago about the car. The movie is a black and white film from 1959 that revolves around teenagers, the worlds most incompetent sheriff, and a mexican beaded lizard standing in for the giant gila monster.
The giant gila monster don sullivan lisa simone shug fisher 1959 when teens go missing in a small texas town, the leader of a local hot rod group teams up with the sheriff to defeat a giant lizard roaming the desert. The giant gila monster is a 1959 science fiction movie directed by ray kellogg. The giant gila monster may sound as if it has all the elements of a fun bad movie. The giant gila monster, along with other mutants, were forced to do tricks and perform until medusa, a waterabsorbing mutant sea anemone, escaped and created all sorts of havoc. Download trove to adventure, explore, and create today. A small town in texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fiftyfootlong gila monster.
No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chopming on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. However it does stand out from its peers in several ways. This film reeks with camp, so download delete it, youll really lovehate it. A monstrous poisonous reptile slithers from the depth of the midwest outback and it wreaks death and destruction on civilization. The giant gila monster public domain full movie video dailymotion.
The giant gila monster may, on the surface, appear to be a very typical 50s drivein monster flick, and in many ways it is. By small town, i mean miniature houses, barns and cars. Before long, the titular gila monster, which is just that a real gila monster is lumbering about on miniaturized sets terrorizing the community, killing at random, knocking over trains and barns, and in. The giant gila monster is a 1959 hot rodmonsterscience fiction film, directed by ray kellogg and produced by ken curtis. It was the perfect choice for mystery science theater 3000 because despite being bad, it. Undead backbrain broke the news that shooting on a remake of the giant gila monster has begun under the codirection of tony randel and jim wynorski. The giant gila monster 1959 film completo sub ita by.
Watch and download the giant gila monster courtesy of jimbo. The giant gila monster 1959 after a couple of teenagers go missing in a small texas town, everyone assumes theyve run off to the big city. Before long, the titular gila monster, which is just that a real gila monster is lumbering about on miniaturized sets terrorizing the community, killing at random. Time to add some giant beastie action to your hump day. Beaded lizards are close relatives of gila monsters, and live mostly in mexico. The giant gila monster don sullivan the mushroom song laugh, children, laugh 1959 well, im sure you could see this one coming, from 1959, the giant gila monster. Theyre a little more black and a little less pink than gila monsters. The giant gila monster scale auto magazine for building. May 25, 2004 the giant gila monster in the giant gila monster is an impostor. When i saw this movie as a teenager i was amazed at how many cool cars were in it a 40 ford coupe, 32 ford coupe and roadster, a couple of 3334s, model as, etc. From the press release rock n roll is here to stay despite the best efforts of a giant gila monster in polyscopes scifi comedy movie gila. When teenagers start disappearing from lovers lane, a toughtalking sheriff and teen hotrodder from an unlikely alliance to find the missing youths. Dec 04, 2017 an enormous lizard frightens a texas community and a daring teenager steps in to wipe out the creature. A giant lizard terrorizes a rural texas community and a a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature.
Only chase winstead, a quickthinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out. It features the typical low budget special effects, barren sets, and corny dialog that you would expect from a movie of this type. The giant gila monster has just about everything you could want in a bad movie. Remake of the giant gila monster begins filming today. A heavy, typically slowmoving lizard, up to 60 cm 2. The giant gila monster is 1959 giant monster movie directed by ray kellogg as part of a doublefeature with the killer shrews in the backwoods of northern texas, in a car overlooking a ravine, a young local couple may be scheming to elope and marry when a claw pushes their car over the edge to their deaths. The giant gila monster tries to put a twist on the usual monster flick by mixing creature feature and teen hot rod film.
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