1964 sci-fi horror
Bad Movie Rating: 5/5 (Johnny: 1/5; Libby: 2/5; Kristen: 1/5; Josh: 2/5; Fred: 4/5)
Rating: 2/20
Plot: A giant carpet is moving around slowly and devouring people.
This is sadly Vic Savage's lone venture into filmmaking. It's pretty special. The obvious thing to talk about would be the monster, a unwieldly lumbering creature with inexplicable anatomy that makes the greatest sound effects I think I've ever heard a monster eat. You have to love a monster that, at one point, fucks a car.
What the hell is that thing? Oh, and here's the semi-pervy way it eats:
I guess it's not eating in a semi-pervy way. It's more the direction that could be described as semi-pervy.
Arguably, the best bad thing about this movie is the narration. You see characters clearly talking in a lot of scenes, but instead of hearing them, a narrator comes in and just summarizes their conversation. It's really great.
I also liked the music which I'm sure was ripped off from other fine pieces of cinema.
The pace is excruciating, but it's almost in a good way. We see the monster right off the bat, and then there's a tedious series of scenes where the monster wreaks havoc. It's redundant, but not as redundant as a dance club sequence that pads the length of this by about 20 minutes.
I hadn't seen this notoriously bad movie and thought it was classic good-bad movie stuff. Most of the other BMCers didn't agree.
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