Stuffed with nearly all the essential ingredients for a '50s drive-in classic -- including rubber monsters, clean-cut biker gangs, countless inane rock & roll numbers, and twistin' teeny-boppers who appear to be about 35 -- this uproariously awful monster flick has secured a fond place in the hearts of bad-movie buffs. The horror of the title comes in the form of numerous scaly creatures whose fishy mouths are filled with a tube-like apparatus that makes them appear stuffed to overflowing with
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Good song based on it. The film blows, even if you like cheesy junk (which I do).
Bad movie. Neat monsters.
An absolute landmark in schlockisity.
Some crazy creature terrorizes teens on the beach, that's all, there's not much to this movie, and it's not really worth watching.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
It's pretty fucking corny from start to finish, so unless you're fascinated with '50s rock or what a director passes off as teen culture of the time, I'd say that you can skip this one.Rental? Maybe?
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