Monster A Go-Go (1965)

Astronaut Frank Douglas, who was apparently sent into space to investigate mysterious satellites, crash-lands in some woods and promptly goes on a homicidal rampage. Investigators from NASA or the Air Force or the Lions Club, I dunno, look into the mystery; and, as the movie progresses and the body count mounts we discover not just one but TWO conspiracies at work here! It is revealed that Frank has been mutated, increased to ten feet in height *and* sent into a murderous rage by an experimental radiation repellent given to him before the launch. Just as we are recovering from this JFK-like cover-up of the truth, the plot moves forward eight weeks - the murders have stopped. But where is Douglas? It turns out that the inventor of the mutagenic rad-repellent captured him and has been keeping him bundled up in his lab, feeding him over those weeks an antidote to the repellent to keep him docile. Then....boom, more plot twist action: the antidote wears off faster and faster every time it is applied, and each successive relapse into the killer rage is worse! Douglas finally murders his way to freedom, and heads for the big city to go hide in a disused sewer tunnel. The army and Civil Defence move in to tackle the shuffling radioactive lumpy-faced (and very tall) space-crazed giant, only to discover the film's third and final twist...which even Joel and the guys on the satelite of love couldn't create enough hilarity to cover. (okay, I stole the above plot summery, if you could call it that, from a guy named Jeff Stone from New Zealand, which he had posted on IMDb.com, It is bang on.)

Trivia: Although Henry Hite (who plays the monster) was 7 foot 6, the director still wanted the monster to be 10 feet tall so Hite was shot at an upward angle to make an already very tall actor look even taller.

Joel and the guys from Mystery Science Theater 3000 tried their hardest, but to no avail. This is simply the worst movie I have ever seen in all my life. They must have been on something when they made this movie. It doesn't make any sense. I thought short and soft about it and I have decided to spoil this movie for you so you won't have to torture yourself by watching it. We last see our monster villian sludging through the sewers as the army closes in, and then...nothing. The movie ends. Here is what the narrator says "Suddenly there was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called Douglas to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness. With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued, alive, well, and of normal size some 8000 miles away in a lifeboat." Don't watch this movie, I beg of you, please, for your sanity, stay clear! I am gonna go to sleep now, my head hurts.