Well, you've got your cold, unemotional scientist explorer, you've got your typical hot, sexy, unfulfilled wife, you've got your intrepid, smoothly handsome hero; you've got native girls on a tropical island, sinister henchmen, a mysterious monster (or two) lurking around and assaulting the tropical girls; you've even got the Men's Adventure magazine analog to anime tentacle rape in the living tree vines that wrap around their victims and try to crush them, or eat them, or something.
In short, it's as if someone took a cover story for Argosy magazine in the late 60's and brought it to life in movie form! Adjust your expectations accordingly.All the movie was missing was Nazis, or a dungeon scene.
Production values, acting, dialog, sound design,etc. are all over the place varying wildly from decent to jaw-droppingly cheap and silly. Some scenes have a fair amount of energy (for all their goofiness), while some scenes just drag endlessly with exposition or walking or flatly delivered dialog that doesn't do a thing to advance the plot or develop character or dynamics within the cast.
But I kind of liked it anyway, for whatever reasons. I actually did not think through the bit with the plot point when the plantation owner revealed his "exposure" to radiation in previous years, and while it wasn't a huge surprise to find out who the monster was, it did add a nice jolt of energy to the film.
My only real quibble with the movie was that the islanders seemed to be sacrificing their virgin daughters to the monster at the rate of one or two every night (at least in movie time)and apparently had been for quite some time...you'd think they'd be running low on young women after a while.
In short, it's as if someone took a cover story for Argosy magazine in the late 60's and brought it to life in movie form! Adjust your expectations accordingly.All the movie was missing was Nazis, or a dungeon scene.
Production values, acting, dialog, sound design,etc. are all over the place varying wildly from decent to jaw-droppingly cheap and silly. Some scenes have a fair amount of energy (for all their goofiness), while some scenes just drag endlessly with exposition or walking or flatly delivered dialog that doesn't do a thing to advance the plot or develop character or dynamics within the cast.
But I kind of liked it anyway, for whatever reasons. I actually did not think through the bit with the plot point when the plantation owner revealed his "exposure" to radiation in previous years, and while it wasn't a huge surprise to find out who the monster was, it did add a nice jolt of energy to the film.
My only real quibble with the movie was that the islanders seemed to be sacrificing their virgin daughters to the monster at the rate of one or two every night (at least in movie time)and apparently had been for quite some time...you'd think they'd be running low on young women after a while.