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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850588
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850580
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 19860
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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 titular 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - reptilicus
great dvd if you are in to sci-fi and its part of the godzilla history. why its manda before he was updated.
Rating:  - Monster Movie Nostalgia
I bought this movie for nostalgia value and rated it that way as well, I first saw this movie in the early 60's at a Saturday afternoon matinee, I was on my own and it scared me more than any Godzilla feature, The monster looked more "lifelike" than some of the others I had seen up to that time,This movie was also in color which is probably why I remember it, I seem to remember Behemoth only in B&W and not sure about the Godzilla movies.As I said nostalgia was the only reason I bought this DVD ... Read More
Rating:  - A big waste
Love Godzilla, Gamera, Yongary, ect, but when it came to this film it's just a waste, bad effects, charetors nobody cares for, get Yongary/konga double feature worth the money.
Rating: - 5 stars-for laffs!
even as a kid, I thought this movie sucked.
Ive seen pics from the Dane DVD, in which the monster flies around Copenhagen at night-actually looks fairly good, atmospheric and spooky-except this beast has full fledged wings, and the monster on the ground has little 6-inch winglets, that couldnt even generate a breeze.
AIP cut this out because they thought it looked silly.
If that head been a yardstick for criterion, then there would have been little movie left.
The movie turns ... Read More
Rating: - IF YOU LOVE CAMPY DINOSAUR MEETS MAJOR EUROPEAN CITY MOVIES YOU WILL LOVE THIS -- BUT.....
Well, why not? In 1951, Manhattan and Coney Island in NYC met "THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS", Tokyo met "GODZILLA" in 1955, "THE GIANT BEHEMOTH" and "GORGO" visited London in 1959 and 1961, so why can't Copenhagen and "REPTILICUS" celebrate Tivoli Nights in 1962?
ANSWER: They can and did, but no one seems to want this pairing on their dance card.
Sidney Pink, direct from his astronomical epic adventure hits of the previous 5 years ("The Angry Red Planet" and "The Seventh Planet"), ... Read More
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