Dinosaur by play dough, trucks by Tonka. That's the obvious credit that this film should carry, a silly "Godzilla" rip-off where the sets are obviously models (check out those battery operated tanks) and pretty much every piece of metal (every shape or form of it) was utilized to provide plenty of amusement, but not in the way the creators may have wanted. This time, the monster is in Korea, not Japan, and Yongary comes out of the ground just as an enormous earthquake is continuing to devastate the whole country.
The hero is a young kid, originally seen with some sort of gun that flashes a light and makes its victims itch horribly, in this case his own sister and her fiancée. Later, he gets the over-sized reptile to itch and dance at the time, making you think that you're in the middle of the "Itchy and Scratchy Show", ironically with rock music in the background.
There's a strange brief sequence showing partying Koreans getting wasted, not realizing the danger outside approaching, but that's never even seen again, making me wonder if the editor cut out the wrong footage. Even with obvious models, the effects are pretty good, although kids today spoiled by computer technology and graphics are going to realize it's all phony.
So if you want a few laughs with some bad English dubbing and a reminder of what didn't necessarily come from Hollywood (even though this ended up in a sequence of the 1982 documentary "It Came From Hollywood"), check this out. This is marked, interestingly enough, as having been released by American International Television, but for some reason, it's in widescreen, giving the impression that some drive-in or second rate theater somewhere must have shown it.
The hero is a young kid, originally seen with some sort of gun that flashes a light and makes its victims itch horribly, in this case his own sister and her fiancée. Later, he gets the over-sized reptile to itch and dance at the time, making you think that you're in the middle of the "Itchy and Scratchy Show", ironically with rock music in the background.
There's a strange brief sequence showing partying Koreans getting wasted, not realizing the danger outside approaching, but that's never even seen again, making me wonder if the editor cut out the wrong footage. Even with obvious models, the effects are pretty good, although kids today spoiled by computer technology and graphics are going to realize it's all phony.
So if you want a few laughs with some bad English dubbing and a reminder of what didn't necessarily come from Hollywood (even though this ended up in a sequence of the 1982 documentary "It Came From Hollywood"), check this out. This is marked, interestingly enough, as having been released by American International Television, but for some reason, it's in widescreen, giving the impression that some drive-in or second rate theater somewhere must have shown it.