Last night I came across this ultra cheap movie from the late 70’s. Despite being of the super low budget, homemade variety, it managed to stay entertaining and fun for its hour runtime. A NASA space rocket crashes to Earth on its return trip from the planet Venus. While there, they (the astronauts) collect some goo that they bring back in canisters. 2 kids come across the canisters in a lake. One kid gets bitten on the ankle by an animal that goes into a hole in the ground. The other kid dumps the contents of the canister into the hole, causing the critter to mutate into a giant monster that then kills them. Some random dude is driving when the monster runs in front of his car, getting hit. He goes to inspect and finds a giant arm, which he wraps up and takes home. He calls his buddy to come over and check it out, but the arm is still alive and sneaks off, scratching his friend in the foot and causing him to go rabid and murderous. 2 detectives are called to investigate the recent increase in rabies infections and murders.
The flick is super cheap, wtith an obvious toy subbing as the NASA rocket, and the giant mutated weasel looking like it was made of paper mache. The movie also uses music from TV shows and movies (I recognized the monster theme from Horror of Party Beach), the acting is hilariously bad, the sets are all DIY homemade and would make Ed Wood proud. One scene in particular shows the detectives finding an underground bunker, and when they crawl in through the hatch, it’s obviously a small basement window of a house they’re crawling into. It’s there that they encounter a mad scientist (dressed like an average dude in jeans) and his experiments to use the radioactive blood of the mutant weasel to achieve immortality. The finale includes shootings, the mutant weasel, a mutant man monster, and dismemberment.
The flick was written and directed by a dude named Nathan Schiff, who made a few more cheapies, including Long Island Cannibal Massacre. Despite its extremely low budget, it succeeds in being absolutely hilarious and entertaining, with outrageous moments and lots of crude blood and gore. This movie was made with a lot of love and enthusiasm. I came across it on YouTube. If you love z grade cinema, then this goofy flick will be right up your alley.
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