Monster a Go-Go

Forget "Plan 9"... This is the real thing. At least Ed Wood knew something about using stock footage. Bill Rebane's spliced together footage, which he bought from a bankrupt film project, has less continuity than home movies after the kids learn to use the splicer. Typical goofs include finding out that the monster was captured & held at the lab by finding out that he has escaped & a scene in which a trucker helps a woman with car trouble followed by a scene which mentions a trucker being found horribly murdered.

The most hilarious gaffe is the scene which begins with a close-up of a telephone in the scientist's planning room, which looks inexplicably like a laundromat. Offscreen, someone says, "Brrrrrrp." A hand then reaches onscreen & picks up the receiver. The ending provides the final punch below the belt, as as the narrator sweeps aside the entire premise of the film with yet more tortured, pompous verbiage--proving that we have absolutely wasted 70 minutes.