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Need Help Finding Title of Monster Film

posted 11 years ago by jbuckets
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I recall seeing an old monster movie that starts off with an oil-derrick crew encountering some unknown flesh (while drilling) which then begins to regenerate in a laboratory water bath (of some type) while scientists try to identify it. It eventually grows into a large monster, which is killed in the climax (natch!), but the last scene is of one of its lower legs standing upright on the ocean floor and shaking slightly - suggesting that it has already started to regenerate ... into another instance of the monster!

Any ideas of this movie's title?

Thanks for your help! :-)

[–] TheUnknown837-1 11 years ago

The name of the movie you're thinking of is "Reptilicus." Denmark's first - and only - monster movie to date.

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

It certainly does! Esp. after reading the board posts about its start and end: THANKS!

Did you have to search thru IMDb/ google for this movie or did you (unfortunately?) remember it? LOL

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

Query #2: There was another movie that I saw on late TV in the early 70's that scared the bejeebers out of me so that I still vividly remember a couple of scene. However, I didn't want to bother posting my question on a msg brd since it wasn't that pressing of a thought.

Yet one nite I'm watching Conan (on TBS?) and he decides to give the entire audience an "obviously-high-quality" horror flick. He holds up the sleeve/ box of the video tape(?) and it's THIS movie that I've wondered about from time to time: Dozerilla?

I just laughed my butt off then wondering/ considering the probability of this occurring....

Yet I cannot find it now on IMDb though I recall doing so just after Conan.

It's about a meteor w/ alien lifeforms on it that crashes onto a Pacific Ocean island. It glows blue (?) and then the lifeforms then invade the various road construction equipment vehicles e.g., bulldozer and road grader, & begin killing the workers after starting up/ operating each vehicle.

Could've sworn I'd remembered the title correctly? Search didn't find any dozer or illa search engine hits that apply.

Know of it? Thx either way!

[–] nickm2 11 years ago

The title of the movie was "KillDozer".

Here is a linky to Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_%28film%29

It was one of those ABC Movie of the week (or weak movie of the week) that they used to crank out (sure there were some gems like "Night Stalker" & "Night Strangler" & even 'Death Race'-an insanely entertaining flick about an Afrika Korp Panzer, commanded by Lloyd Bridgers, chasing a crippled P40, piloted by Doug McClure across the Libyan desert);

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

I even did a search for "dozer" but this title didn't appear. Aarghh!

So close to spelling the name right, yet so far. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

(Now to BOOKMARK said link. AH!!!)

[–] nickm2 11 years ago

Glad to help; those 'movies of the week' from all the major channels in the 1970s were a mixed lot.

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

Can they be legally uploaded to YouTube, etc?

Probably not....

[–] pv71989-1 11 years ago

You're better off with Theodore Sturgeon's novella Killdozer circa 1944.

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

You're probably right, but where would I find it?

[–] pw820 11 years ago

Oh, that "classic." It's on IMDB, too:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071717/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_15

Just saw the new Godzilla movie and it made me nostalgic for the original -- which is why I am just now reading your post.

[–] TheUnknown837-1 11 years ago

It certainly does! Esp. after reading the board posts about its start and end: THANKS!

Did you have to search thru IMDb/ google for this movie or did you (unfortunately?) remember it? LOL

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Unfortunately, jbuckets, I not only remember it, I own the damn thing on DVD. Back in the day, when I was a dumb-schmuck kid who didn't really know much about quality, I saw it on TV and thought it was the greatest thing in the world. Years passed, I became curious about it, I found it cheap on Amazon, ordered it, prepared to relive my childhood memories, popped it in the good old DVD player, and sat there, dumbstruck with boredom, for the next ninety minutes.

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

Is that what they mean by you can't go home again? I go home twice every day; doesn't that invalidate said truism? LOL

Re-living/ repeating/ re-visiting experiences/ locales in childhood again as an adult is SOOO different ('cuz we have so much more wisdom, of course! - or "battle-scars").

E.g., the hallway lockers in my grade-school look so short, yet I recall being barely able to reach the top shelf inside at a young age.

Obviously, said school desks in even 8th grade are painfully too small!

Like my mom's doctor said about me the first week of my life after being born about 3 months early back in mid-60's: don't keep your hopes up. And he repeated several times 15 - 25 years later! LOL

Thus, I'll do the same, but hopefully play it on my buddy's at-home "cinema" i.e., rear-projection TV illuminating the video as being 10ft high on a white wall so that possibly the ratio between my small size then divided by the TV screen size then compared to today's measurements to see if in any way there's a direct relationship. Most likely not....

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

How much are you willing to sell the Reptilicus DVD for?

Merely the cost of mailing it to Wisconsin, USA (perhaps)?

Curious to watch it anyway via DVD if I'm unable to first find it on You-Tube, etc.

Thanks for your expected/ hoped-for reply!!! :-)

[–] jbuckets 11 years ago

TheUnknown837-1: No longer wish to buy your DVD - just watched it now on YouTube....

Thanks for all your help! :-)

[–] hobnob53 10 years ago

jbuckets,

I just saw this thread and read through it. I knew right away your mystery movie was Reptilicus, a film so bad it's good. Though it appears you want to pass on it, it is available on DVD. The original single-film disc is out of print though still available, but it's also one of four films in a set called Movies 4 You: More Sci-Fi that includes some other low-budget, awful but fun films: The Amazing Transparent Man, The Brain That Wouldn't Die and The Neanderthal Man. This entire four-film set costs just $5 on Amazon and, depending on your attitude about such movies, may be worth getting.

Meanwhile, there is or was a clip from the original Danish version on YouTube, showing a scene deleted from the American print, of Reptilicus flying! Apparently even American-International thought it looked too fake to keep, but frankly I thought it was more realistic than anything else in the movie! It was something different, anyway. You might want to check it out for laughs. There once was a link to it someplace on the Reptilicus board but I don't know if it's still there.