Official Score = 3 Devils[/caption]As a movie buff and more directly a Science Fiction and Horror movie fan, there are times that I wish I could go back to the 50s or the 60s or even the 70s and go to the theater!
I mean how cool would it be to see, Halloween, as it was originally made, when it was released in 1978? Or to see Alfred Hitchcock’s, ‘Psycho’ when it was released in to the Theater in 1960? Or any of the myriad of amazing Science Fiction films that people back then got to see for less than a dollar (in some cases!)
The reason I mention this, is because these types of movies were extremely awesome! Rather they be Horror movies or Science Fiction movies, these movies had awesome campy as hell (but very fun) story lines (in the case of Horror, horror is more fictional than real anyway, in Science Fiction… Well from the 60s on back it was still mostly imagination of a world that was just starting to hint at going in to space!)
They had great actors and actresses, who unfortunately for most people in the modern day would not remember, which is a shame, because most of these old time actors had so much talent coming from them, that in my opinion, they match up to the talent (or in some cases beat out the talent) of some of our modern day celebrities (They kind of had to, considering what they had to work with in what could be considered the pioneering days of special effects and the like…
And speaking of special effects… I know that it might seem like I have knocked them around in this review more than a few times… But the truth is… ‘Yes’, the special effects in these types of movies were of times extremely campy (especially Science Fiction movies,) but they are that good type of camp that make these movies a ton of fun… I mean I’ll be honest here and say that if some of these amazing classics were given the modern Hollywood makeover when it comes to special effects, then these movies would have sucked!
And you know what? The Cape Canaveral Monsters (1960) exemplifies all of these traits!
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A great example of a cult classic, that had very little but ended giving such an amazing performance![/caption]Written and Directed by: Phil Tucker (Robot Monster). Starring: Jason Johnson (Invasion Of The Saucer Men), Katherine Victor (The Wild World Of Batwoman), Chuck Howard (The Last Hurrah), Scott Peters (Panic In Year Zero!), Linda Connell, Billy Greene (The Shrike), and Lyle Felice (Psycho a Go-Go).
This movie tells the story of an American Space Program in it’s infancy… During this time a special project that is being run by a Doctor Von Hoften, a German Scientist that has assembled a team at Cape Canaveral to help get mankind in to outer space…
On this team is Von Hoften’s daughter, ‘Sally’ (Connell) and a student by the name of, ‘Tom Wright’ (Peters)…
Now during this time, there is a group of Aliens by the name of Nadja (Victor) and Hauron (Johnson) who have been sent to Earth with the express purpose of helping make sure that mankind never reaches the cosmos…
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Hauron (Jason Johnson) as he is stopping another attempt by NASA to launch a rocket in to orbit.[/caption]One night, while Tom, Sally and a couple of friends are out on a date, they stumble upon the Aliens, and it will be up to these two love birds, and a couple of other people to stop Hauron and Nadja from carrying through with their nefarious plot, so that, in the end they can stop a bigger plot that involves the rest of the world!
In the end, this movie was a ton of fun, and worth my time, and if you’re in to these classics, then you might like it as well!
