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7 out of 9 people found the following review useful: Movies like this intrigue me, 8 August 2002 Author: sickcritik
This movie was released in 1965. The acting, for the most part, is pretty bad. Some of the girls sound like they are from other countries. The director liked to let the camera roll for long periods of time with only occasional edits. There are almost no close-ups in the movie. It is extremely low budget as well as extremely 1960s. Shot in color but with a minimum of locations used. The beast is some guy in a gorilla suit. The girls have to keep their vaginas covered at all times. The faces are cute and the breasts are silicon-free. In some cases the buns are a little flabbier than what you'd find in the current crop of nudie cutie movies. I don't think some of the prettier girls seen topless in indoor shots are ever seen walking around the campground naked, though many other girls are. There is a blonde who bears a passing resemblance with a young Linda Evans and a brunette who has a couple of scenes on the phone that I would have liked to have seen more exposed for our viewing pleasure.Movies like this intrigue me. I want to know what theaters they played in (even if there's a Wal-Mart or a Home Depot at the location now). I want to know what happened to the people appearing in this movie. I want to know how they got involved with this production. I want to know where the producer had his office (I mean the exact room). I want to know what sort of profit it made upon release (if it even did make a profit). I want to know all the sordid details about a production such as this one.
4 out of 5 people found the following review useful: Dead From the Neck Down, 26 January 2005 Author: BaronBl00d (baronbl00d@aol.com) from NC
Shame, shame, shame. This little "horror" film is basically a nudist camp film with the awkward appearance of a guy in an ape suit thrown in as an afterthought. It should not be called the "The Beast That Killed Women," but rather "The Beast That Killed a Woman." Maybe ten minutes of the sixty minute running time(which felt like it was two hours!)is devoted to the ape guy chasing a woman and then finally being dealt with by the police. What do you get for the rest of the film? Bare bottoms and bosoms parading through the woods. Playing volleyball. Swimming. Playing shuffleboard. Talking in bunk beds. Sitting around a campfire. All the while the most appalling music plays. The film has no actors. There are really no characters developed. There is little direction aside from a guy following the movements of nudists in a nudist camp. The film fails miserably as a horror film in any way. It lacks drama. It lacks humour. It is only remotely intriguing from a nostalgic viewpoint(perhaps).
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful: I asked for a bad movie, I got a bad movie!, 11 May 2005 Author: mondo_schizo from North Carolina
I've had two experiences with the films of Barry Mahon. The first was a silly little children's film called "The Wonderful Land of Oz" (hmmm, Ozploitation?) and now I've made my way to one of his several 1960s nudie cuties..."The Beast that Killed Women". Now while the two films couldn't be any further apart in subject matter, they do have one thing in common...They're both freakin' WHACKO!!!Taking place in a nudist camp, where flabby butts and chicks with Scandinavian accents run amuck, an escaped gorilla is on the prowl and has the local inhabitants terrified! "At first I thought it was just some guy in a monkey suit", claims one lucky survivor. Starting to get the picture? Though it runs for only 60 minutes, 20 is really all it needed, as there really isn't much of a story, or any action at all. But even still, there's an odd quality to this cheese-fest that I can't quite put my finger on. My favorite scene is where there's a nudist volley ball game going on and paramedics are carrying a body back to their ambulance. Rather than going around the court, they cut right through the game, making their way through all the nudie cuties and even go under the net. No one seems to mind though, and quickly return to their game. WTF?All hail the power of cheese! Recommended only to lovers of bad cinema.
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful: Surreal Barry Mahon Sex-Horror Gem!, 29 March 2000 Author: Son of Cathode from New England
A gorilla kills nudist chicks. This is one of exploi-king Barry Mahon's most intriguing yet insipid pieces, a primitive tour de force. Maybe primal is a better word. Everything is so damn generic, from the paper-thin plot to the flashback wraparound to the familiar stock music to the bare sets to the title beast. Its like a monument of non- moviedom. Bad-acting bare women with bad accents predominate, surely the movie's sole reason for existence. Oddly, the men all have to wear shorts in the nudey camp. The best scenes are speculation scenes between various topless chicks, struggling vainly to act as their boobs flop about. The ape man, who appears for no reason at all, seems to be the same suit as later adorned Dave Hewitt's shamefest "The Mighty Gorga". Life at the nudist camp is weird; there is a faux-Tahitian motif which suggests "Gilligan's Island" somehow, and people do square dances and sit around campfires semi-clad, looking bored to tears. And this piece of crap is conveyed via deceptively pleasant, well-scrubbed color photography; too bad its photographing so little. Some of the Mahon trademarks are intact: refusal to shoot anything remotely resembling a close-up; long, painful, improvised dialogue scenes by illiterates, and lots of nubile foreign cuties. As the film progresses, logic becomes entirely peripheral. The finale will leave you with cramps. No logic whatsoever. Amazing badfilm classic: "At first I thought it was some guy in a monkey suit!"
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful: 'Aunt Peg''s first movie, but not as 'Aunt Peg' nor a porn film, 12 March 2005 Author: movieman_kev from United States
A man recuperating in a hospital recounts how he got there when an ape terrorized a nudist camp. This was marginally better then "Monster at Camp Sunshine", the other feature on Something Weird's double-feature DVD. Obviously, this film only exists to show flesh, and don't get me wrong, the movie is pretty damn bad. But at just an hour it's not THAT awful. Thanks in part to being Juliet Anderson's first film role. Juliet of course would become a porn star in the 80's thanks to her 'Aunt Peg' character, and roles in other Golden Age porn classics.My Grade: D+ DVD Extras: Double-Bill with "The Monster of Camp Sunshine"; 9 Shorts ( Bring 'em back nude, Expose of the Nudist Racket, Nude Ranch, Beauty and the Beast, Back to Nature, Nudist Fashion show, and 3 intermissions) ; Gallery of Exploitation art; Vintage Drive-in intermission; Theatrical Trailer; Trailers for "Eves on Skis", "Goldilocks and the Three Bares", "Nudes on Tiger Reef", "Nudist Life", and "Pussycat Paradise" Easter Egg: Highlight Jesse James Drive-In for a bonus Trailer for "Girls Come Too" Eye Candy: It's mostly set at a nudist camp..duh, so loads of breasts and buns, only bushes are trees tho
The wildest of times at a nudist colony., 21 December 2008 Author: Michael O'Keefe from Muskogee OK
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Director Barry Mahon, thank you. Exploitive T & A from the mid sixties. A pretty scary time for guests at a Miami Beach nudist colony, as a gorilla runs amok killing anyone in its reach...clothed or butt naked. Bouncy, bouncy. Bouncing boobs and bouncing buns of all shapes and sizes. One complaint is that some of the better looking babes in clothes never take them off. And who really cares that some guy in a gorilla suit is chasing naked chicks around. Typical American Drive-In Theater fare that helps rev up the libido between the popcorn and big orange drink. The director himself is listed among the cast members featuring: Julie Anderson, Sandra Sinclair, Darlene Bennett, Bryon Mabe and Gigi Darlene.
Utterly terrible with few amusing moments., 17 August 2008 Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland
Delores Carlos and Byron Mabe play a couple,who is visiting a Miami nudist camp.Unfortunately for them an escaped gorilla chooses to show up on grounds of camp and start killing female nudists,one woman to be precise.How the beast in gorilla suit escaped or why it's attacking nudists in their grass huts at night is never explained though we're given a soundless scene near the end of the film where the cops arrest an unnamed woman with a large cage in her home.I have seen my share of bad horror movies and "The Beast That Killed Women" is no exception.It has tons of naked flesh,but no full-frontal nudity.The acting is terrible,the plot is extremely dull and the beast looks laughable.Still the scenes with gorilla are strangely amusing.3 out of 10.
If you just HAVE TO see a "nudie-cutie" flick . . ., 19 June 2006 Author: lazarillo
The "nudie-cutie" is without a doubt one of the campiest genres in the history of American cinema. Prevented by the censors from doing anything stronger, 60's exploitation filmmakers like David Freiedman, Herschel Gordon Lewis, and Barry Mahon resorted to making "nature documentaries"--basically home movies shot at nudist camps (although the actual nudists were usually told to take a hike and attractive and voluptuous nude models were put in their place). Naturally, the acting and production values were atrocious and the films were much more silly than erotic. It is always refreshing to see naked women before the modern era of institutionalized anorexia and silicone implants, but you'd do better with the later 70's sexploitation films like the "roughies" or the "ghoulies" which often featured the same kinds of women but were far sleazier and had actual (and often mind-warping) plots. You see one nudie-cutie film on the other hand you've seen them all.If you MUST see one though of these movies though, this is a good choice. It ranks somewhere between "The House on Bare Mountain" and similar "The Monster at Camp Sunshine", but unlike both those earlier films it is in color. It really should be called "The Beast that Killed Woman" as only one woman is killed (and probably owing to censorship, she is fully clothed at the time). The beast also throws a guy in a lake and most of the movie is taken up with the police interviewing this second "victim" in his hospital bed or with various nude or semi-nude women discussing how scared they are and whether they should leave the resort. My favorite scene is where a woman is screaming for help and one of these bimbos responds by jumping out of her top bunk and hopping into the lower bunk with her friend (yeah, that makes a lot more sense than calling the police). The "beast" by the way turns out to be an escaped gorilla (or rather a man in a very unconvincing gorilla suit). What is a murderous escaped gorilla doing in a Florida nudist resort? You know, they never really do say. Oh well.
1 out of 2 people found the following review useful: just another silly excuse for topless square dancing, 11 September 2005 Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY
This is a 60's "monster nudie" in which there are plenty of topless gals and guys mostly still wearing bathing suits at a Florida nudist camp. A gorilla is on the loose and by my calculations it only killed one woman. Of course it's just someone in a gorilla suit, oops, is that a spoiler? It begins with some guy in a hospital bed, recounting how the gorilla picked him up and threw him in the water when he was sleeping in a Tiki Hut with his wife. She of course, escaped harm. We're treated to many scenes of folks in varying degrees of nudity (all tastefully done) wandering through the trees, splashing in the pool, hanging out in the barracks, even, yes, square dancing. This is kind of amusing in its own way, but by no means a decent film, so if you enjoy 60's nudie trash this may be for you. However, if you really prefer Hollywood blockbusters, if there is such a thing anymore, you will probably want to give this a pass. I thought it was fun in a stupid way but it's nothing I'd be in much of a hurry to watch again. 5 out of 10.
1 out of 2 people found the following review useful: Oh Brother..., 29 May 2004 Author: suspiria10 from The Void
Here we go, back to those swinging sixties.This nudist / horror hybrid is so bad that you can't help but smile and enjoy it all the way through. All the standard prerequisites of a bad movie are here. You get in abundance horrible acting. I have seen people read cue cards with better panache. A bevy of bare boobs and butts parade around for ambiance (after all this is a nudist camp). Let us not forget that the titular title `monster' is a man in a dime store knock off gorilla suit. You know that you are talented when you make a film this bad, no one would think a film like this could be taken seriously.. But the biggest part of a bad film is unintentional laughs and this one has them in abundance. This movie will work well with the bad movie lover. Thankfully it runs about 60 minutes. But even at that it looses steam about 25 minutes before that.
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