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Caltiki, The Immortal Monster (1959)
Topic Started: Jan 31 2007, 08:44 AM (487 Views)
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Edited by Laughing Gravy, Feb 22 2013, 10:52 AM.
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Interesting poster, I sense a review coming...

Edited by The Batman, Feb 22 2013, 03:44 PM.
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I just purchased a copy at the Monster Bash convention in Pittsburgh this weekend and watched it in the hotel room tonight. First time viewing. God I love Mario Bava and it's worth watching if you can find it.
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After a booming narrator tells us that nobody knows what happened to the Mayans, they simply disappeared off the face of the earth (uh, yeah, kind of we DO know), we find some archeologists poking through the ruins of a temple wherein lies a mummy (that doesn't move), a statue (that doesn't move), a sacrificial pool (that doesn't move, but it's about knee deep until you lower yourself into it, then it turns into Mussolini's swimming pool, and I don't mean the small one, I mean the one in his summer villa), and a blob, that DOES move and gets bigger and looks so much like a giant pair of testicles that you'll laugh all the way through this thing. I know I did. Giant SPARKLY testicles, by the way. The archeologists discover the darn thing is pretty easy to kill - you just load a truck with explosives and drive it into the thing - so we think maybe this is a one-reeler, but NO. The dumbasses take a piece of it home with them, and it infects some guy named Max, who gets eaten up by it and pretty soon there's a pair of giant sparkly testicles rollin' through the neighborhood. Well, there IS.

Nice 1959 Italian sci-fi with cinematography and (gory!) special effects by Mario Bava, and legend tells us he co-directed it, too. I love it when there's a half-ass "scientific explanation" for what's going on; in this one, a comet that soared through the Milky Way draped the earth in radioactive dust (I think that's the sparkly part of the testicles) and brought the Mayan Blob back to life.

This thing was issued by Allied Artists in 1959 in the U.S.; I watched that version, although the Italian version is on the DVD, too (I got it all the way from Italy, that's how badly I wanted to see this movie, or maybe how badly I misjudged how good the movie was gonna be). See that poster I posted up there? Nothing like that happens in the film AT ALL. I did notice that the whole bit with Max seems lifted directly from the Hammer Quatermass film.

Nice, widescreen anamorphic print on the DVD and a lot of bonus materials and a lovely book, all in Italian. Atsa nice.
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Saw this at Blobfest last year. Not as good as the McQueen Blob movie, but all in all, not a bad flick.
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