Reptilicus

A detailed Summary of Reptilicus

I saw this movie on October first at my home. I decided I was in the mood to watch a B-movie, since I haven't seen one in awhile. Sidney W. Pink wrote and directed this movie. Two other films he directed were Journey to the seventh planet (1962) and Finger on the Trigger (1965).

The story line for this movie is as follows: A man is drilling for copper, and he hits something. He pulls it out of the ground to find flesh and bone. He had no idea what he had just found, but he knew it was something that he should take to scientists. So, he takes the "object" to a lab to have it examined. The scientist's figure out that this object is a tail, and it is nothing has ever seen before, its natures mix of "reptile and mammal". They calculate that this animal, with a tail of this size will be huge, about the size of a brontosaurus. To keep the tail preserved they lock it in a frozen compartment, and it has to stay at a certain temperature. This is where the big cliche comes in. The scientist goes into the room to get a tissue sample from the tail, and forgets to lock the door. While he's examining it, he falls asleep and the door (magically) flies open. Through out the night it defrosts, and starts to "regenerate" (as they say 239488 t

Another instance of horrible special effects was when Reptilicus was in downtown killing every body, people were trying to escape over the bridge. When the guy that controls the bridge (for when ships come through, its one of those rising bridges) opens up one side of the bridge so people cant get through. That made absolutely no since considering he was making faces like "oh, I'm so sorry, why am I doing this?" which made since I guess because the director probably had no idea why he was doing it either.

Oh wow, for my reaction to the film: This was one of the worst films overall that I have ever seen. The fact that it was seriously lacking in the acting department, not to mention, bad voiceovers, horrible directing, unbelievable special effects (if you can even call them that), and worst of all was the plot (or lack thereof). The acting was so horribly over the top, especially with the janitor in the laboratory. There is one scene in particular that stands out. When he is walking around, he sees the electric eel and decides to put his hand in the water, which shocks him. As he's flailing about he sees the Reptilicus moving, and makes the stupidest face I have ever seen in film. I mean, its very over the top, and competes with some of the expressions I have seen in student films. He then ran to the police station and told the chief that the monster had escaped, but the chief ignored him and kept playing chess, since everyone knows this janitor is the town clown. The part there I really didn't like was it turned into an episode of the three stooges.

Everything was horrible about the special effects in every way. I like some of the older B-movies and their cheesy effects, which aren't believable, but they tried. In this movie, they just showed the neck of this "giant monster". and when they did show the neck it was in slow motion. There was one scene that was absolutely horrible (well, they were all horrible, but this one stood out). It was when the general was trying to blow Reptilicus up from a ship when he was underwater. They kept cutting to this child's toy that was obviously in a murky fish tank. And when t

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