Carl Ottosen

You'd have to be pretty desperate to enjoy this cheesy Danish monster flick, imported by American International Pictures in 1962 to capitalize on Japan's barely-better Godzilla movies. The titu...( read more  read more... )lar beastie begins as the frozen tail of a prehistoric reptile, discovered when a scientific drill hits a bloody mass of monster flesh buried deep in the Lapland tundra. The tail is accidentally thawed (echoes of The Thing) and regenerates into a massive demon-lizard that spits fluorescent green ooze and terrorizes Copenhagen! Padded with archival military footage and stampedes of panicking Danes, the movie's too earnest to be campy (save for some funny hamming by the science lab's handyman) and too cheap to qualify as a guilty pleasure, with special effects that make rubber-suit romps like Godzilla look masterful by comparison. By the time an unwitting army general says, "It's a good thing there are no more like him," you may find yourself wishing he was right. --Jeff Shannon

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Unrated, 82 min.

Directed by: Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink

Release Date: June 1, 1961

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DVD Release Date: August 28, 2001

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  • December 22, 2008
    Nearly terrible, if not for its sheer uniqueness as one of (make that the only) Danish monster movie. Covering all of the required B-Move formulas, with the added bonus of giving New York and Tokyo a rest in favor of exotic (and hilariously modeled) Copenhagen.

    The final icing o...( read more)n the cake is the absurdly pupeteered Reptilicus, which dangles on marionette strings and has a non-existent body almost always hidden by a convenient grove of trees.

    The American version removes a hilariously bad flying sequence, but fear not, it adds a laughable "special effect" of neon projectile goo.
  • October 4, 2008
    beware of reptilicus!!!!!!!!!
    this b-movie will send you running in fear
  • May 5, 2008
    Monsters and blonds.
  • March 26, 2008
    I love me a so-bad-it's-good monster movie!
  • February 25, 2007
    again....sense of humor required....
  • February 13, 2007
    A classic from my childhood. This movie used to scare me! LOL...
  • December 11, 2006
    i would like to see this
  • December 10, 2006
    Waste of TIME!! Very Weak movie, DO NOT WATCH, if you do end up watching it, side effects may include: Suicide, murder ramapages, road ramapage, any kinds of ways of harming yourself, and many others...

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