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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9786305772712
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
ISBN: 6305772711
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: IMED8586D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: March 21, 2000
Running Time: 75 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
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Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 10/03/2006 Run time: 75 minutes Rating: Nr
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The Hideous Sun Demon is almost too wonderful to be believed. Scientist Dr. Gilbert McKenna drops his sample--oops!--of "a new isotope that has never existed in nature before" and consequently receives a massive dose of radiation. As so often happens in these cases, the results are gruesome and tragic--whenever he is exposed to sunlight Gil turns into a lizard man, driven to kill. "You mean a human being could evolve backwards through time?" asks the plucky Miss Lansing. Alas, her question can only be answered with a yes. Well, a yes and some hilarious "scientific" proof. Even though he becomes a murderous reptile at the pull of a curtain, some obscure legal statute says that Gil can't be kept in the hospital against his will. Full of whiskey and self-pity, he heads out on his own, a time bomb ready to go off the minute he runs out of zinc oxide. The pleasures of The Hideous Sun Demon are many: rubber lizard suits, headlines reading "Weird Killer Still at Large," a lounge singer named Trudy with an unusually lopsided piano playing style, and day-for-night sequences in which the night is so bright that one cannot see the actors' faces. Truly, a movie that must be experienced in DVD. --Ali Davis
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I enjoy these old, low-budget monster films and find Hideous Sun Demon to be a real favorite. No, the acting's not good, and the effects are unspectacular by today's standards, but there was an attempt here to craft something of value from modest materials. Underlying a pretty standard plot are suggestions about the opposites that pull at our protagonist: night vs. day, the brunette good girl vs. the blond singer, and drunkeness vs. sobriety. Is the sun a harsh moral judgement of some kind? I don't ... Read More
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One thing you can say for the sci-fi/horror films of the 50s, is that they really knew how to come up with a snazzy title. Where today's films try to shorten the title as much as possible(the cool sounding "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" on it's 100th remake is now simply "Invasion"), the classic schlockers tried to make it as grandiose as possible. Some films made a point to tell us where the film's creature was coming from, be it "outer space" or "beneath the sea", etc. Then there's a few that ... Read More
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I saw this movie back in the 60's on TV Saturday morning and thought it was unusual. Unfortunately the movie doesn't hold up very well anymore. This is for film buffs who enjoy this type of movie.
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I expected this to be far worse than it was. (Possibly Nan Peterson has something to do with the fact that I actually liked watching this.)
But like most 50's sci fi, don't go in hoping for logic, good special effects (the monster provoked a laugh every time he was on camera), scientific accuracy (this is about as bad as it gets in that department, rivaling Plan Nine), character development (is it me, or did all 50's women fall in love with the first troubled soul they met?) or believable ... Read More
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Robert Clarke has got to be the forgotten star of 50's sci-fi classics! John Agar and Richard Denning are the big two, and even Peter Graves is quite noticible. But Robert (MAN FROM PLANET X, ASTOUNDING SHE MONSTER, BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER) Clarke seems to go unnoticed as a major star of the genre.
THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON should have propelled Clarke right to the top! It's certainly his CITIZEN KANE as he produced, directed and starred in this prime example of low budget b&w 50's sci-fi drive-in fare. ... Read More
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