Bob Thompson, Don Sullivan, Fred Graham

A giant gila monster terrorizes Northern Texas and a band of teenagers try to stop it.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 14 min.

Directed by: Ray Kellogg

Release Date: June 25, 1959

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DVD Release Date: August 13, 2002

 

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  • September 11, 2007
    LOL ok I thik I know how the Gilla got to be Giant but not by the way they say...I think its food had a little bit of 'roids in it.

    Love to try & fig. out ho they did the FX in this old movies, & some of them they don't even do somthing liek that in the current ones.
  • July 27, 2007
    This may very well be the best movie EVER made, for the simple fact that it's about a Gila Monster, of all things, that spontaneously grows to epic lengths and begins to randomly eat people. As if that isn't enough, our hero is a mechanic with a tendency to break into song (one ...( read more)of his songs begins with the story of a "sad little mushroom"). Giant man-eating Gila Monsters AND musical mechanics?! Now that's entertainment!
  • July 22, 2008
    Okay, I'm not into the so bad, its good genre, but this one cracked me up. Ridiculous dialog, hilarious "special effects". It has it all.
  • November 4, 2009
    bueno, es una pelicula de 1959 de terror-¿sci fi? sobre un mounstruo que habita es las zonas aridas y talvez en esa epoca inexploradas de Texas, el mountruo se supone que es un reptil prhistorico como de unos 25 metros de largo (claro que en realidad es una lagartija) que ataca e...( read more)n la carretera autos, cabezales e incluso descarrila trenes. es una pelicula para adolecentes protagonizada por adolecentes de 30 años jajaja pero debo de admitir que el uso de maquetas y miniaturas es muy bueno para una produccionasi de pequeña. la trama deja que desear y lo extraño (para nuestra epoca) es que los adolecentes lejos de ser criticados son tomados en cuenta como gente de bien, dura 1:15 minutos y se puede encontrar en youtube completa sin cortes. vale la pena como para perder una hora y matar el tiempo, sobre todo si como a mi, les gustan las peliculas de terror y ciencia ficcion aunque esta sea a luz de nuestra era, matada de la risa.
  • April 29, 2009
    "My baby, she rocks,,,and rolls." Classic 50's 'teen' sci-fi horor. Hot Rods, dancing, Rock n Roll and a Giant monster.
  • December 16, 2008
    A great concept for a movie, the Gila monster was hard to take as being 200 feet long as the case said it was. Overall it was a good movie for its time.
  • November 9, 2008
    Ahh, memories. Loved watching this as a kid on Creature Feature.
  • May 22, 2008
    classic drive-in movie
  • May 5, 2008
    Hot rods hot teens and a giant Gila monster. Thats it.
  • January 7, 2008
    This is the perfect "creature double feature" saturday horror movie.

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