The Naked Monster (2005)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Directors:

Wayne Berwick
Ted Newsom

Writer:

Ted Newsom (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

A brain-dead sheriff, a stolid secret agent and a sexy scientist team with a grumpy retired monster fighter to battle a 60 foot, three-eyed cross between man and dinosaur.

Plot Keywords:

Monster | Stop Motion | Sergeant | Female Nudity | Satire

Cast

Kenneth Tobey	...	Col. Patrick Hendry
Brinke Stevens	...	Dr. Nikki Carlton
R.G. Wilson	...	Sheriff Lance Boiler
John Goodwin	...	Agent Jeff T. Stewart
Cathy Cahn	...	Connie Lingus
Forrest J Ackerman	...	Flustered Man
John Agar	...	Dr. Clete Ferguson
Michelle Bauer	...	Second Mom
Bob Burns	...	Admiral Burns / Tracy the Gorilla
Jeanne Carmen	...	Mrs. Lipschitz
Robert Clarke	...	Major Allison
Robert Cornthwaite	...	Dr. Carrington
George Fenneman	...	Narrator
John Harmon	...	Mr. Lipschitz
Paul Marco	...	Kelton the Cop

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Heidelberg Films

Trivia:

This was the last film of veteran sci-fi stars Kenneth Tobey, John Agar, Gloria Talbot, John Harmon, Robert Shayne and Les Tremayne.

Quotes:

Col. Patrick Hendry: Look, son, I've been fighting monsters since before you were born. It's never over 'til the final fade-out.
Col. Patrick Hendry: You try telling some Harvard psychiatrist you used to fight monsters. I've looked at so many inkblots, my eyes cross. They've had me doing the Thorazine shuffle for three years.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

Soundtrack:

You Made My Life into a Monster Movie

Of course it's bad... geeze-louise!

It's obvious from the opening credits through the cruddy stock shots that it's intended as a spoof of no-budget monster movies. Too bad some people don't have friends to watch it with, because with a group, it's a hoot. Having seen it at conventions, screenings, and living rooms, I've heard people laughing with the gags-- not AT the film, but with it. Ken Tobey is very dry and funny, sending up his roles in The Thing, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, etc.... I think Brinke Stevens is probably at her best here (although she's fine in Teenage Exorcist-- which at least had a couple hundred thousand dollars' worth of budget, unlike this $1.98 miracle), and the cast I just love-- all the oldtimers as well as the young-timers. Yeah, I'm more than a little prejudiced, and believe me, I see and hear the flaws more than anyone else. But I know it works as a silly comedy.

(As cruddy as some people might think it is, it was good enough to get into the CascadiaCon Film Festival in Seattle, WA, the RiverRun Film Festival in Winston-Salem, NC, and the sci-fi fest in Modesto, CA. Yeah, but what do THEY know, anyway, huh? As opposed to some fnork in East Bombfook, Noo Joisey.)