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The Rubber Monsters

posted 13 years ago by Camelot_2000
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I watched this the other day and couldn't believe I stuck with it until the end. Back when I was a kid, I loved this movie whenever it came on the late show, but now, it's too outdated to enjoy.

All those creatures look so fake and rubbery and they move so slowly and stiffly. I keep thinking they look like props from a parade float. Still, it's good nostelgia to see how film makers once created their 'special effects' at that time.

The more I study it, the greater the puzzle becomes.
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

[–] OneWayFilms2000 13 years ago

This is one of those movies where it's SO bad, it's good.

[–] cseanp 12 years ago

Totally agreed. I'd swear those Mahar costumes were used/recycled in a really awful mid-80's movie which I'm trying to track-down again after all these years called SEARCH IN THE EMERALD JUNGLE (?).

[–] mark-smith473 11 years ago

The rubber monsters were absolutely terrible, only the fiery ending was well done and of course the lovely Caroline Munro, otherwise it was pretty bad. The special effects were more like something from the 1950s, Ray Harryhausen was doing better stuff a decade earlier.

[–] Flywiththeowl 11 years ago

Notwithstanding all the dated effect flaws, it *still* excites me. I ate this movie up as a kid & wanted to *be* Doug McClure.

[–] bhkittleson 10 years ago

Ha! I also hoped desperately that after I finished school I would morph into Doug McClure. Still sort hoping, too.

[–] jdw50 8 years ago

My guess, and I could be completely wrong, is that it was a deliberate attempt to make a creature feature they way it was done back in the 1930s. It certainly looked old-fashioned even in 1976; in the age of Jurassic World, it seems hopelessly out of date. Likewise, Cushing is gently spoofing the sort of absent-minded scientist in films of long ago. But maybe it really just was lack of money and taste.

[–] millsey72 (10285) 2 years ago

I think those monsters still hold up today. They look great