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The Giant Gila Monster

The Giant Gila Monster

1959
Sci-fi, Horror
1h 14m
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chopming on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out. (imdb)
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The Giant Gila Monster

1959
Sci-fi, Horror
1h 14m
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Rated 11 Mar 2016
72
23rd
Of course it's bad. But it's also quite charming in a '50s sort of way. Approach only when accompanied by Joel and the 'bots.
Rated 13 Apr 2020
34
20th
The other-half of the Gordon McLendon Texas' drive-in double feature was another delightfully cheesy 50's B-movie creature-feature. However, unlike the standard monster-movie fare of "The Killer Shrews"(1959), this movie had classic hot rods, lovable drunks, and some of the worst musical performances ever caught on film. "The Lord said laugh! Children laugh!" may be one of the worst songs ever, and you get the pleasure of hearing it twice...in this creature-feature...about a giant Gila monster.
Rated 18 Nov 2011
19
4th
Deserves praise for actually trying to create real characters. Deserves no praise at all for forgetting that it's supposed to be a horror movie, and for being a vehicle for a complete no-hoper of a Pat Boone wannabe. Seriously, hearing that fucking banjo song once made me cheer for the monster - hearing it twice makes me want to carpet bomb the whole cast.
Rated 29 Oct 2010
29
8th
A bad Elvis clone battles a little dimestore gila monster made to look, via special defects, like -- well -- a *big* dimestore gila monster knocking over toy cars and a Lionel train set. This amusingly bad companion to _The Killer Shrews_ has everything: necking teens, a swingin' barn dance, awful songs, and the hero's cute crippled little sister, who seems to have strayed in from some old Shirley Temple movie. All this and Shug Fisher too!
Rated 10 Jul 2007
53
12th
Walks the fine line by being fairly well made cheep drive-in fodder. It's almost well done but in the end it doesn't strive to be anything more than a monster movie about a giant gila. [MST3k does perhaps their best riffing here. Their skits are especially Gila inspired which funnels back into better and better riffing. Highly Recommended.]
Rated 21 Dec 2012
10
13th
A hardly threatening lizard (not a monster) does nothing but walk around and stick its tongue out. Frightening? No. Not at all. This movie also has an annoying teenager who bursts into song several times and is annoying as hell. He even sings a song to his evil looking crippled sister. Shut up man, with your "God said laugh laugh laugh". MST3K was alright, but when they showed the knee montage I had to laugh a lot, the kid (+others) really showed their knee a lot.
Rated 20 Sep 2017
24
6th
A movie obsessed with two things: Casual posture, and the repairing and driving of cars. Too bad it couldn't be obsessed with not repeatedly subjecting the audience to terrible music.
Rated 10 Feb 2010
20
0th
Some of the worst special effects you'll ever see. Example: normal size gila monster attacks toy truck, then cut to stock footage of truck bursting into flame.
Rated 11 Apr 2015
65
24th
The Giant Gila Monster: that doesn't do much of anything at all.
Rated 22 May 2010
1
2nd
Mst3k score: 6/10
Rated 08 Apr 2009
30
14th
nothing special, just an ordinary b-movie with primitive special effects.
Rated 08 Jun 2022
40
7th
From the minds of The Killer Shrews comes too much talk and not enough Gila. This falls into the classic trap of treating a monster movie like a mystery movie - one that's solved before it's even started. Carnage is criminally low and there's no model work, just a literal lizard (and one or two shots of a glove swiping the camera). Other elements aren't badly executed for a low budget flick of this ilk, but we're not here to hear the main character break into song three times... are we?
Rated 28 Apr 2023
40
16th
A car movie disguised as a monster movie. The lizard is on screen for maybe 5 minutes of the entire film. The rest of the time it's people discussing cars and hot rods.

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