Should you see it? If you're a Ray Dennis Stecker completist.
It took me 20 years of searching to find this film, now more readily available. It was not worth the search.
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds."
Saturday, May 31, 2014
The Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters (1965)
How bad is it? It looks like it was filmed extemporaneously.
Should you see it? If you're a Ray Dennis Stecker completist.
Along with ultra-low budget horror films, Ray Dennis Steckler tried his hand at a couple of other genres, including this attempt to make a children's television program. The film is three episodes of the proposed show, which takes characters from The Bowery Boys of the 1950's (Steckler does an amazing Huntz Hall "Satch" impersonation) and adds supernatural elements. It somehow manages to be both ahead of its time and behind it at the same time. To say the slapstick humor is broad is a gross understatement. Seemingly ever distracted, Steckler uses his Rat Pfink and BooBoo characters in the third installment and some of the masks form Incredibly Strange Creatures can be seen.
It took me 20 years of searching to find this film, now more readily available. It was not worth the search.
Should you see it? If you're a Ray Dennis Stecker completist.
It took me 20 years of searching to find this film, now more readily available. It was not worth the search.
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