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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305772712
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305772711
Label: Image Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
MPN: 8586
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: March 21, 2000
Running Time: 75 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
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Editorial Review:
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The Hideous Sun Demon is almost too wonderful to be believed. Scientist Dr. Gilbert McKenna drops his sample--oops!--of "a new isotope that has never existed in nature before" and consequently receives a massive dose of radiation. As so often happens in these cases, the results are gruesome and tragic--whenever he is exposed to sunlight Gil turns into a lizard man, driven to kill. "You mean a human being could evolve backwards through time?" asks the plucky Miss Lansing. Alas, her question can only be answered with a yes. Well, a yes and some hilarious "scientific" proof. Even though he becomes a murderous reptile at the pull of a curtain, some obscure legal statute says that Gil can't be kept in the hospital against his will. Full of whiskey and self-pity, he heads out on his own, a time bomb ready to go off the minute he runs out of zinc oxide. The pleasures of The Hideous Sun Demon are many: rubber lizard suits, headlines reading "Weird Killer Still at Large," a lounge singer named Trudy with an unusually lopsided piano playing style, and day-for-night sequences in which the night is so bright that one cannot see the actors' faces. Truly, a movie that must be experienced in DVD. --Ali Davis
Description:
Screen star Robert Clarke, legendary science fiction leading man of the 1950s, produced, directed and starred in this Atomic Age chiller about a scientist that turns into a hideous prehistoric creature when exposed to the sun's deadly rays. This is it! The original cult classic, filled with tense radioactive atmosphere, as the Sun Demon stalks his prey while his primordial mating urges go berserk! An excellent modern-day horror screamer filled with murder, monsters, radioactive isotopes and a sizzling blonde babe with gravity-defying assets. Bring your sunglasses and tanning oil because "The Hideous Sun Demon" is on the loose!
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The movie as a whole is quite good for a "so bad its good" production. They did a pretty good job as having a full length rubber suit that fits into his pants so you get the feeling it is the whole body that is a reptile. The poor guy knocks over things and gets nuclear particles into his body. The sun turns him into a monster after being exposed for a short length of time. He is a monster for a short time until he can get out of the sun. It keeps getting worse as time goes by. He does a little over acting at times like William Shatner did as Captain Kurk. The end scenes have the "top of the world ma" similarities from "White Heat". Very good fight scenes at the end. He does a lot of great butt kicking in the movie as the monster. He does not make Peta happy either as he kills a dog who was chasing him. He gets so involved with a big chested blond, he forgets about the sun coming up in the morning on the beach. Man does he catch hell for ditching her and getting home as quick as he can. ... Read More
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As a connoisseur of 50's scifi monsters - if not invading aliens, they almost invariably involve radiation, mutation, and murder - this is a pretty good one. Rubber suit and all, Sun Demon has good characters, from the affected scientist-turned-beast to his girls. He struggles to do the right thing, but, well, fails. Then it gets gruesome, before becoming a chase. As a kid, I remember wanting to see this, but couldn't because "it was playing in a bad neighborhood", so now I have finally realized my desire (in a fit of insomnia over the internet). OK, it's a formula, but at least it is well done.
Recommended for the cognoscenti.
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Absolutely the best of the best when it comes to B&W B-movie sci-fi. A classic, dramatic and racy tale which will leave you glued to your set until the end.
And, a little known fact.... This is the only movie to have the honor of capturing Robert Hafner on film. Hafner was the writer of the hit single "Commanchee" that was used in the Gimp/Chainsaw scene in Pulp Fiction (and on the soundtrack CD). Hafner is seated at a table in a bar scene in the Sun Demon. That itself is a gem of a bonus.
Great film. A must see. A saucy time for a Sun Demon...
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was very happy to see this for sale, remember being scared sh@&less as a kid watching it. actually it was a more talky than i remembered, but still delivered the chills.transfer quality was good to excellent. great monster makeup.
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well, sort of! This wonderfully bad man/lizard flick contains some surprisingly creative camera work. The story is of interest as it plays up the psychological ramifications of the atomic-exposure-gone-wrong story line. Robert Clarke stars, directs and produces so he's totally responsible for this thing, if you like it or if you absolutely adore it.And oh yeah! he gets to kiss all of the young women! How convenient!
So, what we have here is a drunken atomic scientists who drops a vial of some never existed before atomic something which knocks him unconscious. Little Frustrated Assistant isn't exposed but still manages to see the whole thing. Things are looking OK for the doc (if only he'd stop drinking!) in the hospital until he gets set outside with the other potted plants where he shrivels up into a comically scaly-chested lizard man! He goes to hide out in a gothic mansion, coming out at night only to drive too fast and drop into the same scabrous dive where the woman with ... Read More
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