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The Naked Monster | 
 enlarge | Directors: Wayne Berwick, Ted Newsom
Actors: Kenneth Tobey, Brinke Stevens, R.g. Wilson, John Goodwin, Daniel Roebuck
Studio: Anthem Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 78797
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 86 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DAHNM01008
UPC: 828221010086
EAN: 0828221010086
ASIN: B000FKO3EY
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: August 1, 2006
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Product Description
AIRPLANE meets GODZILLA on an Ed Wood budget as a giant three-eyed alien lizard threatens civilization. Crusty monster fighter Kenneth Tobey (THE THING) teams with a sultry scientist (cult scream queen Brinke Stevens) to battle the dreaded Creaturesaurus Erectus. There's eye-poppingly bad special effects, sight gags, and an all-star cast of B-movie sci fi legends.
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 The Airplane of 1950's sci-fi films May 12, 2007
Allen Blank (College Point, NY United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you like the old 1950's sci-fi monster invasion films you'll enjoy this affectionate spoof. What I like most is that they got one of my favorite actors from that genre Kenneth Toby to recreate his character from the Thing a few other films to fight the invading monster. Also some wonderful old character actors appear in small roles through the film, like John (Trantula) Agar, Gloria (I Married a Monster From Outer Space) Talbolt, Les (War Of The Worlds) Tremayne, Robert (The Adventures Of Superman) Shayne, and Toby's co-star of The Thing, Robert Corthwite. It does get very silly, and the modern actors aren't very good, but for a fan of these films it's a must.
 I was a teenage SciFi fan March 24, 2007
William J. Schafer (CasadeSchafer, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a loving look at the Scifi films of the 50's that I and millions of other SciFi Kids grew up watching on saturday mornings at the local theater. Unbelievable monsters terrify the world and we buy it hook, line and sinker. Ted Newsome does a great job of honoring a number of actors who shared the lives of all who followed the Scifi genre. Buy this DVD Now!!! If you love Scifi, you'll love it.
 id give it 0 stars if i could February 25, 2007
David W. Low (manton mi)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
this is quite possibly one of the worst movies i have ever seen. The acting is terrible, the jokes are all incredibly lame("give him a hand!" one characters says, than hands the other guy a small plastic hand), the sound in the film is 2nd rate at best, the video quality is awful, the plot is a jumbled mess, and absolutely NONE of it is even slightly funny! this movie wants to be an homage to the 50's B movies of yesterday, but the badness that it presents to the viewer is not a parody of the wonderful badness of 50's movies, its just plain bad! the dialog isnt so bad its hilarious, its just BAD! the story isnt so bad is funny, its just BAD! this movie isnt funny, it isnt cool, it isnt clever, avoid it at all costs it is absolute, unadulturated, GARBAGE! instead, see Larry Blamire's "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra", a movie that actually hit all the marks that this film missed. Skeleton is funny, clever, cool, and wonderfully capatures the spirit of those 50's B movies, and the wonderful badness therein.in other words, its everything that The Naked Monster isnt. thank you:)
5 Stars only for die-hard fans of Satirical Spoofs August 22, 2006
John G in NC (Weaverville, NC United States)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a difficult movie to rate...if you are old enough to have been a fan of many of the old Sci-Fi and Horror movies of the 1950's and are able to spot references to those old films, then you can get some good chuckles from the dialogues and scenes in "The Naked Monster". It was released decades ago with the title of "Attack of the B-Movie Monster" to a very limited run on VHS, and now is available as "The Naked Monster" on DVD, distributed by Anthem Pictures. Just keep in mind that the movie is definitely a low-budget production,shot almost as though it was an amateur effort. You're not going to find this movie anywhere near the caliber of other spoofs, such as "Airplane".
All that being said, the movie brings back to the screen many of the stars of the 50's, including some who are no longer with us, having passed away. Among those are Kenneth Tobey ("Capt. Hendry" in "The Thing", who died in 2002), Robert Cornthwaite ("Dr. Carrington" in "The Thing", who died in July of 2006), and others from that genre.
There are some gratuitous nude scenes in the movie, and in a film preview that's also on the DVD, so this film isn't really for kids.
An interesting extra choice from the menu is an interview done between a horror-movie host and Kenneth Tobey, which has his remembrances of filming some of the movies he had starred in. That was fun to watch.
Bottom line is that the 5-Star rating I gave it is for those who mainly want to revisit old memories. For anyone else, it's merely a curiosity piece.
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