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The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
Topic Started: Aug 4 2015, 04:40 PM (153 Views)
GL84
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When their cattle herds start disappearing, rival ranches declare the other responsible and begin feuding with each other, unaware the true culprit is a reawakened dinosaur that lives in a cursed swamp nearby and forces them to work together to ward it off.

What did everyone think of this?
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Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

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This was a troubling affair as it did have some enjoyable moments spread throughout but really gets caught up in it's own problems. One of the major ones here is the Western influence on the storyline taking such center-stage that it doesn't allow the horror to sift through, making it into a monster movie out of nowhere with no real explanation for anything and really downplaying it overall as well. While the two sides warring over the cattle herds as well as the woman make for some fine moments at times, especially once the jealousy kicks in and they start actively fighting each other, the fact that this constitutes the majority of the film's opening hour makes it quite obvious there's no real intent to wage on anything else in here and renders the dinosaur's first appearance in the hour's closing minuets. As well, the shoddy nature of the stop-motion animation used to bring it to life is ridiculously cheap and cheesy and doesn't for a second convince otherwise of it's realism when the genre really should've done better by that time, and the laughable inclusion of many factual and physiological errors about the creature is another fun point of ridicule. While it does have some rather fun moments once the dinosaur's actually out and about which makes for a whirlwind finale, it's a little too late to save this one.
Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs.

My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/
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Started slow, but the monster scenes were fun. However the monster is so tacky and the effects so poor I can't imagine what made the film-makers decide to go in that direction. Despite the title, the movie for the most part is just a generic western. Then all of the sudden there's a dinosaur. I can't help but wonder if the film would have been "better," or at least consistent, had it stayed a western drama.
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Saw this one on the new MST3k as well. It was terribly slow but I've seen way worse. I'm with the rest of you, once the dinosaur showed up it was pretty fun. The way the dinosaur kept flicking its tongue like a snake had me cracking up! Should have had way more dinosaur for sure.
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