So-bad-it’s-good status is just missed with Attack Of The Beast Creatures. There is unintentional comic gold in them thar dolls… just not enough to make it essential viewing.
So-bad-it’s-good status is just missed with Attack Of The Beast Creatures. There is unintentional comic gold in them thar dolls… just not enough to make it essential viewing.
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#1 by The Rev. on November 10, 2016 - 11:04 pm
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You’re right, it’s definitely got some rough patches. However, the beast creature scenes are pure magic, and I do think they’re worth the effort of sitting through this at least once. The bobbing puppets, the pumping little arms, the weird repetitive hissing that’s the only noise they all make…and the attack scenes! If you aren’t tickled by the very idea of grown adults flailing and shrieking with dolls tied to their clothes as off-screen crew members throw more dolls at them, then you definitely shouldn’t watch it. Also, what the hell is wrong with you?
Of course, I’m probably a bit biased, as I could watch people pretending to fight puppets/dolls all day.
I’m a little sad you spoiled the acid pools, though. That was such an out-of-nowhere “Oh, by the way, this happened” moment that I thought I was going to rupture something.
#2 by lyzard on November 12, 2016 - 9:37 pm
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acid-stripped skeletons that have a visible removable top on their skulls
I can’t hate any movie that has a flip-top skull in it!
#3 by The Rev. on November 14, 2016 - 12:16 pm
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I’m pretty sure you’d also squeal and/or coo over the Beast Creatures, so there’s that.
#4 by RogerBW on November 13, 2016 - 2:27 pm
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“Flip-Top Skull” is my new band name.
I think that the fewer people have control over a film, the more it can veer away from “mainstream”. First of all make it micro-budget so the money men aren’t in the picture. Then give it a writer-director, even more so a writer-director-star. At that point he’s going to be following his own vision, and nobody is in a position to tell him “Bob, this just doesn’t work”.
Of course you need a writer-director-star who has his own vision and isn’t just making another Blair Witch Project ripoff.
The cover art is interesting too – that face and hands in the sky is kind of neat and almost 1920s in style, but then you have a generic 1980s shot of the leads, and it just doesn’t blend together.
That’s a line someone needs to put into something, somewhere. “For the director and all the cast, this was the last movie they ever made.” “Wow – was there a curse or something?” “No, it was just really bad.”