Should you see it? Not really.
“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."
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Devil Monster (1946)
How bad is it? It's almost entirely stock footage.
Should you see it? Not really.
This film is almost entirely taken from a 1936 fishing adventure film, with stock footage from two other films of that time added, which must've made it seem dated even in 1946. There's fight scenes between aquatic animals and a topless native girl (that somehow got past censors twice), before the climactic scene involving the titular monster, which turns out to be a giant ray, one of the least frightening creatures in the sea. There's one very funny scene at the end, as a man jumps overboard to fight the monster; now, given that the monster was filmed 10 years earlier, that means they had to superimpose him over the old footage, so he's just thrashing at water or nothing most of the time.
Should you see it? Not really.
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