"It was an enormous black bird, like a vulture, but with a horrible human head!" But, was it as big as a battleship? The worst thing about the arrogant scientist is that at every turn, people constantly raise perfectly reasonable objections to his wild theories.
@@boblester8641 I make fun of people who say that the Democratic party is run by a secret group of Satan Worshippers and "Wealthy Globalists" (because "Rich Jews" is too obvious,) who sacrifice children and drink their blood to stay young and healthy, and you say I'm making it political?
With the application of a hell of a lot of atomic energy, and all that effort would produce a small amount of the changed element. It wouldn't raise the dead (but it could make the dead).
I love how in these movies no one ever pulls a Pascal's Wager and takes the minor precautions that would protect them from the thing they're "sure" doesn't exist but could smite them at any moment like it has the rest of their family/group/company/whatever. Yes, hang out on the balcony in the open after you've been warned repeatedly that a mutant bird is hunting your family. Hang out on the balcony at night. Alone.
Broderick Crawford was a brilliant actor, especially in All the Kings Men for which he rightly won an Oscar.. Then alcohol took over and he wasn't getting work.. Shame, he was such a presence on the screen too.
If you like Broderick Crawford, you should check out The Decks Ran Red (1958), where Broderick plays a bloodthirsty mutineer planning to take over a cargo ship off the coast of New Zealand. Costars include James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge.
I guess that is quite insulting that he's not being believed because half men have vulture creatures do exist. I mean after all there's the Thundercats, Vulture Man.
I still love that show, but the moment I realized the writers had run out of ideas was when Snarfer was flying his space scooter through space without a helmet, or any other kind of breathing apperatus, and got pulled over by a space cop for speeding...
Y'all dun skipped past FLASH GORDON 'S VULTAN , KING OF THE BIRDMEN ! OK, that's a stretch, but all I could think of at the moment ... See if I can think of summin better... In a few days
seems this film ripped off the comic villain. the first iteration of comic 'Vulture' predates this film by a good 13 years, and Stan Lee's version was still 3 years old when this film released.
Thank you for getting to this one! This movie doesn't anger me, it just makes me snort in derisive astonishment. The monster is so ludicrous, the stilted final scene mansplaining a detail we had already damn well figured out is such an anticlimax, and poor Broderick Crawford's aerial abduction never fails to crack me up. It's a movie you love hating.
As soon as you introduced your dad I actually said Nooo with glee as I love his little inserts. Then when he said yes I was stumped. Thoroughly entertaining review as always.
His "scientist knows all" character is the kind of cliche they were making fun of in the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, especially the science conversation at the beginning of that movie.
In THE SLIME PEOPLE, Robert Hutton goes a step farther. Instead of a scientist who doesn't think anyone should question him about the science fiction stuff, he plays a reporter who doesn't think so.
Here to plug the Patreon. It's so so so worth the few bucks. Also every time Robin gets really pissed about how bad a movie is, an angel gets its wings.
Akim Tamiroff was such a great character actor and gave many wonderful performances in his career. This is not one of them. I'm curious how they roped him into playing a half-man, half-vulture. Cool Moonraker t-shirt by the way!
came here to say this. he was friendly with Orson Welles and thus has very entertaining parts in Touch of Evil, The Trial and Mr. Arkadin. I've also enjoyed him in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo.
@@grahamgreene779 Not to mention other classic films like The Great McGinty, Topkapi, and even Oscar nominated roles for playing warlord characters in The General Died at Dawn and For Whom the Bell Tolls. I suppose many actors are faced with the problem of going from an Oscar-nominated role in a literary epic to flapping around in half a Big Bird costume in a terrible low budget horror movie.
@@betamaxblocker- Times change, and so do audiences. There are trends in movies and popular types of actors. A character type such as Tamiroff may weather some changes better than leading wo/man types, but at some point the rent comes due and the bills need paying. Actors must keep working so they have something to show when called on, and hope that this silly role in this dumb movie might be the one that turns things around for them (or at least keeps the lights on and the refrigerator full).
@@betamaxblocker And Tamiroff's Preston Sturges roles inspiring the cartoon character of Boris Badenov in "Rocky & Bullwinkle". As for the reveal, the idea of a half-man/half-Vulture had me picturing the old-school Marvel Spiderman villain, and even THAT one managed to resemble something a little more avian than a headless bird costume.
You are so right about "scientist" basically meaning "One Who Knows ALL" in these movies. You, sir, are quite entertaining, and I'm glad I follow The Horror Geek, it got me here! Subbed, I like your style. Great job, and "great" movies you review...
I get the feeling this would have been better as a satire or spoof (then again, wouldn't everything?). And it was great to see your dad again, all the more because he (rather surprisingly) supported the film's side of things for once.
A few have mentioned the similarities betwixt this ditty and "The Giant Claw". They've finally released a lovely copy of "The Giant Claw" on Blu-Ray! It's one of the selections in the (U.K.) Arrow Video; Sam Katzman 4 film collection titled "Cold War Creatures", together with "Creature With The Atom Brain", "The Werewolf" and "Zombies of Mora Tau". This set is still available (@ 50 quid). Eventually they may break the films out and sell them individually but to me, the set is worth the price. A couple years ago, Anolis (Germany) released it as one of their '50s Sci-Fi fliks but it sold out very quickly. The Arrow release is excellent.
So they head off without putting the mad scientist who is behind this out of business so he could continue his work? At least at the end, it should have had them getting on a ship along with a cameo of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff or Christopher Lee loading weird looking eggs onto the ship and saying, "They should hatch in the middle of the voyage." Meanwhile the military plans to airdrop Colonel Sanders to deal with the bird.
"Stand aside, and let me through, I am emeritus professor of snide dismissal and general, applied douchbaggery at B-Movie University." This guy is almost a big a tosser as George Meaning (Ray Lovelock) in "Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue"; and that is going some. Films that annoy me? "Prometheus" really stands out as a terrible waste of an awful lot of craft and resources that could have been poured in to three or four less toe-curling films.
"Prometheus" is one of those movies I sometimes put on in the background when I'm doing other things. I think it would have been a much better movie if they hadn't tried turning it into an Alien prequel.
This is completely unrelated to what you've said, but I wanted to share this with you as much for the sake of, in case you don't already know this one, as an excuse to leave another comment: There's an Eskimo driving along in his car when the engine suddenly starts spluttering and steam starts rising from the bonnet, so he pulls in to the nearest garage to get it checked out. The mechanic says to him “Leave it with me for an hour and I'll see what I can do.” To kill some time the Eskimo goes off to the nearest ice-cream parlour to get some ice-cream, which he eats. After an hour has passed he heads back to check on his car. The mechanic says, “It looks like you've blown a seal.” The Eskimo replies, “No, I just ate some ice-cream.” I'll close the door one my way out...
@@euansmith3699 It's an old joke. I suppose it could be updated by replacing "Eskimo" with "Joe Biden" and having him go to the Zoo for his ice-cream. I mean, he does like his ice-cream after all....
I must confess I have _never_ encountered this film before 😳 Thanks for once again expanding my bad movie horizons, Robin & Graham 😁 Edit: 5:45 How to Recognize Different Types of -Trees- *Arms* From Quite a Long Way Away 😆
"Nuclear transmutation", The Vulture... OK, I get that the people making this saw The Fly and thought "God help me if that's not a good idea to steal" but I guess they didn't quite understand the science. "Teleportation, transportation, transmutation, it's all Science Science Science Reason For Horror, isn't it?" My brain automatically filled in "mutation" after "nuclear", but nuclear transmutation is not what they think it means. If you change a living creature on the atomic level all you'll end up with is a dead creature. Maybe one made of gold but that's the best case scenario.
YES! Become an Acolyte or Shadow on their Patreon and enjoy, I kid you not, like 800 hours of stuff ~ The sheer volume of Patreon content is amazing. The commentaries are funny, interesting, and extremely re-watchable! Even at the $1 level you get a crazy amount of content! But give yourself a birthday present and bump up to Acolyte at the very least - you get a discount if you pay for the full year at once and it's a gift to yourself you'll enjoy all year. That's what I did, and haven't regretted it for a moment! Oh - and the RDJ so-called "Sherlock Holmes " made me angry because it was a goddam abomination.Don't go on social media and wax rhapsodic about your love of the original stories Guy Ritchie, then proceed to shit out THAT.
Movie that made me angry, also because of a "scientist" : The Happening. "Why are bees disappearing?" "It's an act of nature that we will never fully understand." "That's right. Science will come up with some reason to put in the books. But at the end it's just a theory."
Years back, we ended up with an old truck from the 50s or 60s that has a decal for the "Washington State Atomic Energy Commission" but it had to go, we have pictures of the decal, and all of its faded glory, but to save what was left of the truck it had to be taken off.
I hate the movie The Magic Sword by Burt I. Gordan because the "Hero" never does anything heroic, beats every challenge though using magic items his mother (a witch,) made him (including his companions!) and then for the final battle is stripped of all those tricks, is doomed to be eaten by a dragon, and then his mom show up at the last minute (having escaped the room he locked her in earlier!) SHE kills the bad guy, and then enchants his sword so he can kill the dragon, and get the girl. Oh, and all his companions come back to life.
"Red Zone Cuba" made me angry. I don't normally react to bad movies with anger, but my conception was that Coleman Francis was mocking me (from years ago) as he trashed any anticipation I might have had of certain returns, or at least conditions, in exchange for the time I invested in watching his film. He didn't invert my expectations, he took the paper upon which they were written, rolled it up tight, and beat my dog with it while forcing me to sit and watch. I hope I am conveying the personal animosity on his part that I inferred and my own reaction in kind.
I've only ever seen that once, but I found it such a bizarrely fascinating cinematic train wreck it kept me riveted, because I couldn't take my eyes off it. And the fact that Coleman Francis looked just like Curly from the three stooges commanded my attention whenever he was on screen.
@@paultapner2769 I really, really hated it the first time through. I once had it at #1 on my Worst Films Ever list. But a decade or so later, I had relented, moving it out of the top spot due to some redeeming features I recalled. (I'd still put it in my Bottom Ten, but it's not even my least favorite Coleman Francis film now.)
The films that I've seen suggest that his reach exceeded his grasp. I don't know if he didn't have the necessary combination of talent, skill, experience, and budget, or if he was Hal Warren levels of inept. It would never have been a great movie, but a film about some of the participants in that cluster-eff known as the Bay of Pigs could have been engaging and competent. _The Beast of Yucca Flats_ tried to be a monster movie _and_ a meditation on how violence spreads until innocent people suffer. _The Skydivers_ was just sort of there.
@@julietfischer5056 Funnily enough, I watched the mst3k episode 'First Spaceship on Venus' on sunday. And the lead actor in there was the spitting image of Christopher Nolan. It was just so noticeable.
I have held a grudge against the 2014 found footage horror movie As Above So Below for a while now. I mean, it's biggest sin is being kind of forgettable and wasting the setting of the Paris catacombs. But the bit that still makes me angry is a scene where they translate a latin riddle into English, and it rhymes in English. It's weird, because I also worked in a small-town library, and you'd think any horror movie that features a small town library with a surprisingly robust occult section would bother me (in my library, we did not have any occult books, but we did have a couple books on tractor repair and 7 different biographies of Princess Di), but for whatever reason that I can just roll with.
It's a hoot....pardon the bird pun....to see Broderick Crawford and the great Akim Tamiroff paddling in this mire of silliness. Crawford sleepwalks through it picking up an easy paycheck, while Tamiroff somehow manages to give an actually good performance. Too bad it was wasted on this turkey. I'm not sorry.
Enjoyed your witty narration and seeing THE VULTURE for a first time since 1967 at the theatre, where it played in black-and-white. Yes, Paramount paired it with THE DEADLY BEES and economized by using B/W 35mm prints rather than color. You can imagine how deadlier dull the result was.
A fascinating tale! How can you doubt the basic concept of a half-man half-beastbird, as authoritatively presented by "a scientist"! They know EVERYTHING! It comes with the diploma, don't you know?😂
One of my favorite James Rolfe reviews on Cinemassacre! I hope he keeps up his horror movie reviews after bringing Monster Madness back, that's my favorite of all his content.
Hang on. Mad scientist transfers himself into a dead 18th century bloke, but gets a vulture's body because the bloke's pet vulture was buried with him, similar to the accident in "The Fly". Question : so by b-movie logic, where is his human body with a giant vulture's head?
As a science teacher, I get viscerally angry at any film where the bad guy uses a social darwinist understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution to scientifically justify being a jerk to people. YES, I'M LOOKING AT YOU "IN TIME"
As with many bad movies, the premise here is pretty cool. I'm sure a good SFX artist like Rob Bottin or any one of the other greats could make a half-man, half-vulture creature look frigging awesome.
The one in this movie looked more like a fat guy in a chicken suit. Though with the overall quality of this movie I guess it could have been a Turkey...
I watched this a few years ago and Broderick Crawford getting plucked off the balcony by those Talons made me laugh out loud. That said, I still prefer the remake with Dave Spikey and Johnny Vegas!
I loved this film!!! I'm sorry but you way undersold the vulture attacks. I watched this on the late show and was bored stupid, but man, those claws came down and whisked those people away and I was hooked. Very stupid premise, but it's very well done! The part where it gets the girl is very well shot, with you thinking "ah, there's the bus going to pick her up" but no those claws come down, good stuff!
I’ve never actually seen the movie, but the trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua made me angry the first time I saw it in theaters. It made me angry that somebody had made that, and expected members of my species to be interested in watching the film it was advertising.
This was the first movie I ever saw Akim Tamiroff in. As for movies that make me angry, Like Water for Chocolate. I was actually happy when the mother died.
Other movies that made me angry were all of the adaptations of Terry Pratchett's books that David Jason ruined by deciding that being a fan meant he should star in them.
What films make me angry? Any big budget films with a terrible script. Big budget films with bad editing ( Joker, Moulin Rouge, Bohemian Rhapsody, ect, ect). Big budget films that have..... I can go on, but I can't be arsed to type an essay about the modern film industry.
You know if they had just made the feather prop too big to come from any natural bird then the hero wouldn't seem like a complete mad man. Just give him a two foot long feather and things start falling into place, wonder why they didn't do that?
As someone who lives some place with tons of vultures, I can tell you that vultures aren't birds of prey. They're carrion eaters and I've seen them eat just about everything ( on the bus ride back home I saw a vulture dragging a dead cat off the road next to a graveyard, the lady friend I was with got upset at the sight and another time I saw ten of them having a meeting about twenty feet from a dead male deer). Besides vultures aren't big enough to carry off anything, they stand about two feet tall. The only thing I know of that could do something like this are reports of giant birds with 25 foot wing spans and one once tried to carry off a little boy in Illinois back in 1976 ( Thunder Birds).
There are no birds with such a wingspan in the United States. Certainly not since before there were humans in the Americas, if then. I can't remember exactly where, but there are some large eagles in the Philippines, or somewhere else in Asia. They still can't carry off people. The Thunderbirds are Native American spirits that bring rain and storms.
@@julietfischer5056 There are many reports of giant birds in the United States. Massachusetts - 1995, 2015. North Dakota - 2015. Virginia - 2013. Missouri - 1961 , Illinois - 1977. And there are dozens more from other places in the US. Always see things as facts and possibilitys. THOUGH A GOOD DEAL IS TOO STRANGE TO BE BELIEVED, NOTHING IS TOO STRANGE TO HAVE HAPPENED - Thomas Hardy
@@danddoty3981- Reports, but no specimens. How did the witnesses know the animals were oversized? What criteria did they use? How did they estimate distance and relative sizes? Conditions of the sightings? The witnesses' emotional states? If I see a large bird dive-bombing a child, I'm not calmly noting its exact size or its size relative to the child, or even its exact behavior. After it's all over, my memory of events would be exaggerated thanks to emotions. There are limits to how large birds can be and still fly (even at a glide). Weight is always an issue.
@@julietfischer5056 Two witnesses from Texas were able judge the bird's size. They saw one of these birds sitting on top of telephone. They judged the bird's wing span by the high of the pole ( 30ft). A pilot in Alaska flew next to one of these birds and said was it as big as the engine plane he was flying. Bumble Bees wings are too small to support them , yet they still fly. Look at reports yourself, watch the videos of the witnesses on RUclips. Look at the evidence before making a call.
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"Back off, man. I'm a scientist." - Dr. Peter Venkman
"It was an enormous black bird, like a vulture, but with a horrible human head!"
But, was it as big as a battleship?
The worst thing about the arrogant scientist is that at every turn, people constantly raise perfectly reasonable objections to his wild theories.
Argue with a Qanon conspiracy believer and you get that problem too.
Blast You! You took my battleship (reference)!
Can’t we have one comment section without politics
@@boblester8641 I make fun of people who say that the Democratic party is run by a secret group of Satan Worshippers and "Wealthy Globalists" (because "Rich Jews" is too obvious,) who sacrifice children and drink their blood to stay young and healthy, and you say I'm making it political?
@@boblester8641 Nothing political about criticizing delusion passes off as fact.
Nothing has so delighted me as the talons of a giant fake vulture carrying Broderick Crawford off to his demise!
You dont see that on Highway Patrol
@@andrewyoung2796 Ten-four!
Well it made me jump and was the best scene in an otherwise terrible film.
"Hardly a day goes by without someone turning into a bird!" It's a...Birdemic. Sorry, just had to do it.
...See yourself out!
The ending of "King Dinosaur", 1955, really makes me mad!
Next week on Dark Corners Reviews... Half-man, half-handkerchief: The Snottening.
I've seen that movie. It blows.
"The Booger-Man!"
I'm so used to your Dad saying "Nooooo." that I was caught off guard when he said that it was actually possible.
I love his "nooooooo"'s.
With the application of a hell of a lot of atomic energy, and all that effort would produce a small amount of the changed element. It wouldn't raise the dead (but it could make the dead).
Poor Broderick Crawford deserved better. Mainly, by not doing this film.
Too true!
The half-man half-handkerchief would be too horrifying for the screen : )
Even the less terrifying "Half-Man, Half-Biscuit" is usually confined only to audio recordings.
"The Hanky From Hell" followed by "The Hanky Walks Among Us!"
"I was a teenage hanky"
Lol!
I love how in these movies no one ever pulls a Pascal's Wager and takes the minor precautions that would protect them from the thing they're "sure" doesn't exist but could smite them at any moment like it has the rest of their family/group/company/whatever. Yes, hang out on the balcony in the open after you've been warned repeatedly that a mutant bird is hunting your family. Hang out on the balcony at night. Alone.
Broderick Crawford was a brilliant actor, especially in All the Kings Men for which he rightly won an Oscar.. Then alcohol took over and he wasn't getting work.. Shame, he was such a presence on the screen too.
Crawford also did a good job in comedies as well.
Ray Milland too.
Yep. Happened to a lot of great actors, sadly. It still does.
If you like Broderick Crawford, you should check out The Decks Ran Red (1958), where Broderick plays a bloodthirsty mutineer planning to take over a cargo ship off the coast of New Zealand. Costars include James Mason and Dorothy Dandridge.
I guess that is quite insulting that he's not being believed because half men have vulture creatures do exist. I mean after all there's the Thundercats, Vulture Man.
I still love that show, but the moment I realized the writers had run out of ideas was when Snarfer was flying his space scooter through space without a helmet, or any other kind of breathing apperatus, and got pulled over by a space cop for speeding...
Y'all dun skipped past FLASH GORDON 'S VULTAN , KING OF THE BIRDMEN !
OK, that's a stretch, but all I could think of at the moment ...
See if I can think of summin better...
In a few days
@@josephmatthews9866 Not to mention Joe Biden.
What about Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law?
Eygptian god
A creature concept so utterly ridiculous that only Stan Lee and Marvel could improve upon it by making it a Spiderman villain.
Who isn't supernatural at all. At least, at the start.
seems this film ripped off the comic villain. the first iteration of comic 'Vulture' predates this film by a good 13 years, and Stan Lee's version was still 3 years old when this film released.
Those scientists sure stick together. Still, it was great to see your dad again. Now I feel like watching "The Giant Claw" from 1957.
That was the first movie that popped into my mind after watching this as well!
How can you not like a scientist who is flipping everyone the bird?
Agree!
I saw this on TV when I was a kid. Over the years I'd completely forgotten it. Now I'm going to have to start the whole process over again.
I almost wrote the same post! I thought it was a fever dream from when I had chicken pox in the '70s.
I remembered the scene of Broderick Crawford being carried off be the giant bird feet. It is a hoot. He was once a big star.
Thank you for getting to this one! This movie doesn't anger me, it just makes me snort in derisive astonishment. The monster is so ludicrous, the stilted final scene mansplaining a detail we had already damn well figured out is such an anticlimax, and poor Broderick Crawford's aerial abduction never fails to crack me up. It's a movie you love hating.
Your Science Advisor brings a smile to my face! Your reviews are wonderful, as always 😊! Please don’t stop doing what you do!
As soon as you introduced your dad I actually said Nooo with glee as I love his little inserts. Then when he said yes I was stumped. Thoroughly entertaining review as always.
You can turn lead to gold with enough power. It's FAR more expensive than the gold is worth, but it can be done!
His "scientist knows all" character is the kind of cliche they were making fun of in the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, especially the science conversation at the beginning of that movie.
The Lost Skeleton did so much to advance the field of science.
@@reignfire85 You should know, being a top scientist yourself just how important science is.
In THE SLIME PEOPLE, Robert Hutton goes a step farther. Instead of a scientist who doesn't think anyone should question him about the science fiction stuff, he plays a reporter who doesn't think so.
Crawford's "Noooooooooooooo!" is just hilarious
Here to plug the Patreon. It's so so so worth the few bucks.
Also every time Robin gets really pissed about how bad a movie is, an angel gets its wings.
Or a Half-Man- Half-Vulture gets its feathers.
Akim Tamiroff was such a great character actor and gave many wonderful performances in his career. This is not one of them. I'm curious how they roped him into playing a half-man, half-vulture. Cool Moonraker t-shirt by the way!
came here to say this. he was friendly with Orson Welles and thus has very entertaining parts in Touch of Evil, The Trial and Mr. Arkadin. I've also enjoyed him in Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo.
@@grahamgreene779 Not to mention other classic films like The Great McGinty, Topkapi, and even Oscar nominated roles for playing warlord characters in The General Died at Dawn and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
I suppose many actors are faced with the problem of going from an Oscar-nominated role in a literary epic to flapping around in half a Big Bird costume in a terrible low budget horror movie.
@@betamaxblocker- Times change, and so do audiences. There are trends in movies and popular types of actors. A character type such as Tamiroff may weather some changes better than leading wo/man types, but at some point the rent comes due and the bills need paying. Actors must keep working so they have something to show when called on, and hope that this silly role in this dumb movie might be the one that turns things around for them (or at least keeps the lights on and the refrigerator full).
@@betamaxblocker And Tamiroff's Preston Sturges roles inspiring the cartoon character of Boris Badenov in "Rocky & Bullwinkle".
As for the reveal, the idea of a half-man/half-Vulture had me picturing the old-school Marvel Spiderman villain, and even THAT one managed to resemble something a little more avian than a headless bird costume.
That would be a annoying thing for the police when when investigators find a feather for no reason. Oh no a Vulture!
"A big black bird, like a vulture. With a human face!". The obvious question is: "Was it carrying the face in it's claws or it's beak?"
And was it an african or european vulture?
@@lakrids-pibe Perhaps it was two vultures carrying the face between them with a strand of creeper?
This guy being a nuclear scientist completely explains the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents because….”science”
You are so right about "scientist" basically meaning "One Who Knows ALL" in these movies. You, sir, are quite entertaining, and I'm glad I follow The Horror Geek, it got me here! Subbed, I like your style. Great job, and "great" movies you review...
Oh, I'll grant you this "hero". It's pretty bad when one hopes the monster carries him off and he fails to save himself.
I get the feeling this would have been better as a satire or spoof (then again, wouldn't everything?). And it was great to see your dad again, all the more because he (rather surprisingly) supported the film's side of things for once.
I damn near choked on the grape I was eating when the vulture took the guy away.
Brilliant!
It actually shocked me when I first saw the movie-- happens so suddenly.
I bet most of us have worked with at least one enormous black bird, with a human head.
A few have mentioned the similarities betwixt this ditty and "The Giant Claw".
They've finally released a lovely copy of "The Giant Claw" on Blu-Ray! It's one of the selections in the (U.K.) Arrow Video; Sam Katzman 4 film collection titled "Cold War Creatures", together with "Creature With The Atom Brain", "The Werewolf" and "Zombies of Mora Tau". This set is still available (@ 50 quid). Eventually they may break the films out and sell them individually but to me, the set is worth the price.
A couple years ago, Anolis (Germany) released it as one of their '50s Sci-Fi fliks but it sold out very quickly.
The Arrow release is excellent.
“I am a scientist and other scientists have been right about things, so must be right about this.” Bravo.
So they head off without putting the mad scientist who is behind this out of business so he could continue his work? At least at the end, it should have had them getting on a ship along with a cameo of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff or Christopher Lee loading weird looking eggs onto the ship and saying, "They should hatch in the middle of the voyage." Meanwhile the military plans to airdrop Colonel Sanders to deal with the bird.
I had a cat named Trudy. Miss her.
"Stand aside, and let me through, I am emeritus professor of snide dismissal and general, applied douchbaggery at B-Movie University." This guy is almost a big a tosser as George Meaning (Ray Lovelock) in "Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue"; and that is going some.
Films that annoy me? "Prometheus" really stands out as a terrible waste of an awful lot of craft and resources that could have been poured in to three or four less toe-curling films.
"Prometheus" is one of those movies I sometimes put on in the background when I'm doing other things. I think it would have been a much better movie if they hadn't tried turning it into an Alien prequel.
This is completely unrelated to what you've said, but I wanted to share this with you as much for the sake of, in case you don't already know this one, as an excuse to leave another comment:
There's an Eskimo driving along in his car when the engine suddenly starts spluttering and steam starts rising from the bonnet, so he pulls in to the nearest garage to get it checked out.
The mechanic says to him “Leave it with me for an hour and I'll see what I can do.”
To kill some time the Eskimo goes off to the nearest ice-cream parlour to get some ice-cream, which he eats.
After an hour has passed he heads back to check on his car. The mechanic says, “It looks like you've blown a seal.”
The Eskimo replies, “No, I just ate some ice-cream.”
I'll close the door one my way out...
@@cord113 I'll overlook the use of the outdated term, "Eskimo"; mainly because I'm giggling too hard. 😆😆😆
@@euansmith3699 It's an old joke. I suppose it could be updated by replacing "Eskimo" with "Joe Biden" and having him go to the Zoo for his ice-cream. I mean, he does like his ice-cream after all....
@@cord113 I went with "Freedom Convoy Trucker" when I passed it on to my brother. 😁
It's a bad sign when your eminent nuclear physicist pronounces it "nucular."
Awesome as always. Love the 'Pigeon Doubletake' t-shirt as well.
3:38 a real scientist would know how to pronounce nuclear
You say potato, I say potato. Oh... oh wait... that that little ditty doesn't translate in print so well. Uhhh...
I must confess I have _never_ encountered this film before 😳 Thanks for once again expanding my bad movie horizons, Robin & Graham 😁
Edit: 5:45 How to Recognize Different Types of -Trees- *Arms* From Quite a Long Way Away 😆
Films that make me angry? That would be a very long list. Walked out of one earlier this year after 9 minutes, as I was angry with it!
Saw this on a double bill with the Deadly Bees Akim Tamiroff in a chicken suit.LOL
"Nuclear transmutation", The Vulture... OK, I get that the people making this saw The Fly and thought "God help me if that's not a good idea to steal" but I guess they didn't quite understand the science.
"Teleportation, transportation, transmutation, it's all Science Science Science Reason For Horror, isn't it?" My brain automatically filled in "mutation" after "nuclear", but nuclear transmutation is not what they think it means. If you change a living creature on the atomic level all you'll end up with is a dead creature. Maybe one made of gold but that's the best case scenario.
And that concludes the story about a bunch of people being attacked by the employ of a poulterer's shop who forgets half of his costume at home.
..."Barely a day goes by without someone turning into a bird". 😂
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Oh - and the RDJ so-called "Sherlock Holmes " made me angry because it was a goddam abomination.Don't go on social media and wax rhapsodic about your love of the original stories Guy Ritchie, then proceed to shit out THAT.
Movie that made me angry, also because of a "scientist" : The Happening. "Why are bees disappearing?" "It's an act of nature that we will never fully understand." "That's right. Science will come up with some reason to put in the books. But at the end it's just a theory."
Years back, we ended up with an old truck from the 50s or 60s that has a decal for the "Washington State Atomic Energy Commission" but it had to go, we have pictures of the decal, and all of its faded glory, but to save what was left of the truck it had to be taken off.
I hate the movie The Magic Sword by Burt I. Gordan because the "Hero" never does anything heroic, beats every challenge though using magic items his mother (a witch,) made him (including his companions!) and then for the final battle is stripped of all those tricks, is doomed to be eaten by a dragon, and then his mom show up at the last minute (having escaped the room he locked her in earlier!) SHE kills the bad guy, and then enchants his sword so he can kill the dragon, and get the girl.
Oh, and all his companions come back to life.
That was a stellar and hilarious review! Especially funny to see the Science Advisor humiliate his son!
"Red Zone Cuba" made me angry. I don't normally react to bad movies with anger, but my conception was that Coleman Francis was mocking me (from years ago) as he trashed any anticipation I might have had of certain returns, or at least conditions, in exchange for the time I invested in watching his film. He didn't invert my expectations, he took the paper upon which they were written, rolled it up tight, and beat my dog with it while forcing me to sit and watch. I hope I am conveying the personal animosity on his part that I inferred and my own reaction in kind.
I've only ever seen that once, but I found it such a bizarrely fascinating cinematic train wreck it kept me riveted, because I couldn't take my eyes off it. And the fact that Coleman Francis looked just like Curly from the three stooges commanded my attention whenever he was on screen.
@@paultapner2769 I really, really hated it the first time through. I once had it at #1 on my Worst Films Ever list. But a decade or so later, I had relented, moving it out of the top spot due to some redeeming features I recalled. (I'd still put it in my Bottom Ten, but it's not even my least favorite Coleman Francis film now.)
@@paultapner2769- The MST3K guys had fun with that resemblance to Curly.
The films that I've seen suggest that his reach exceeded his grasp. I don't know if he didn't have the necessary combination of talent, skill, experience, and budget, or if he was Hal Warren levels of inept. It would never have been a great movie, but a film about some of the participants in that cluster-eff known as the Bay of Pigs could have been engaging and competent. _The Beast of Yucca Flats_ tried to be a monster movie _and_ a meditation on how violence spreads until innocent people suffer. _The Skydivers_ was just sort of there.
@@julietfischer5056 Funnily enough, I watched the mst3k episode 'First Spaceship on Venus' on sunday. And the lead actor in there was the spitting image of Christopher Nolan. It was just so noticeable.
I have held a grudge against the 2014 found footage horror movie As Above So Below for a while now. I mean, it's biggest sin is being kind of forgettable and wasting the setting of the Paris catacombs. But the bit that still makes me angry is a scene where they translate a latin riddle into English, and it rhymes in English.
It's weird, because I also worked in a small-town library, and you'd think any horror movie that features a small town library with a surprisingly robust occult section would bother me (in my library, we did not have any occult books, but we did have a couple books on tractor repair and 7 different biographies of Princess Di), but for whatever reason that I can just roll with.
Broderick Crawford starred in the US TV series “Highway Patrol”, teaching us all to say “10-4”
It's a hoot....pardon the bird pun....to see Broderick Crawford and the great Akim Tamiroff paddling in this mire of silliness. Crawford sleepwalks through it picking up an easy paycheck, while Tamiroff somehow manages to give an actually good performance. Too bad it was wasted on this turkey. I'm not sorry.
also starring Broderick Crawford (fireplace room scene) of "Highway Patrol" fame....
A vulture! I’m ready for this. Well, it’s awful, but at least they managed to show their monster a little.
I wonder if the surname Stroud was chosen as a deliberate reference to Robert Franklin Stroud, AKA the Birdman of Alcatraz.
Awesome schlock! I remember watching this on Creature Features, when I was a kid. Good times.
Thanks!
Enjoyed your witty narration and seeing THE VULTURE for a first time since 1967 at the theatre, where it played in black-and-white. Yes, Paramount paired it with THE DEADLY BEES and economized by using B/W 35mm prints rather than color. You can imagine how deadlier dull the result was.
Ha, his t-shirt of Pigeon Doubletake, that's gotta be from Moonraker, hilarious!
A fascinating tale! How can you doubt the basic concept of a half-man half-beastbird, as authoritatively presented by "a scientist"! They know EVERYTHING! It comes with the diploma, don't you know?😂
Oh shit. There's a feather in my front yard. What should I do?
I may not be a scientist but at least I can pronounce "nuclear" correctly
One of my favorite James Rolfe reviews on Cinemassacre! I hope he keeps up his horror movie reviews after bringing Monster Madness back, that's my favorite of all his content.
I wish we’d seen Spider-Man fight this Vulture.
You mean a giant spider with a human head?
Your dad really needs to start a Science channel, where he occasionally asks you for movie trivia.
This reminds me to Triassic Attack, where the RPGed a T-rex and a pteranodon undead skeletons, just os they fused together into a T-Rex with wings!
Hang on. Mad scientist transfers himself into a dead 18th century bloke, but gets a vulture's body because the bloke's pet vulture was buried with him, similar to the accident in "The Fly". Question : so by b-movie logic, where is his human body with a giant vulture's head?
And can we see _that_ movie?
As a science teacher, I get viscerally angry at any film where the bad guy uses a social darwinist understanding of Darwin's theory of evolution to scientifically justify being a jerk to people.
YES, I'M LOOKING AT YOU "IN TIME"
Another great appearance by your science expert.
As with many bad movies, the premise here is pretty cool. I'm sure a good SFX artist like Rob Bottin or any one of the other greats could make a half-man, half-vulture creature look frigging awesome.
The one in this movie looked more like a fat guy in a chicken suit. Though with the overall quality of this movie I guess it could have been a Turkey...
@@cord113 it's not as bad as Thankskilling! Although, I'd probably enjoy a good remake of this kind of film.
That last poor excuse for a Die Hard film really made me angry, a complete betrayal of John Mcclane's character.
Love that the scientist in the move can’t pronounce nuclear correctly, it is not new Q ler 😂
I watched this a few years ago and Broderick Crawford getting plucked off the balcony by those Talons made me laugh out loud. That said, I still prefer the remake with Dave Spikey and Johnny Vegas!
I loved this film!!! I'm sorry but you way undersold the vulture attacks. I watched this on the late show and was bored stupid, but man, those claws came down and whisked those people away and I was hooked. Very stupid premise, but it's very well done! The part where it gets the girl is very well shot, with you thinking "ah, there's the bus going to pick her up" but no those claws come down, good stuff!
Following this up, maybe you’d like to review the Nigerian series Vultures of Horror?
I would rather have this movie be about a hawk monster (because vulture's feet aren't used for grasping prey) with a woman's head called "The Harpy".
Nuclear transmutation on a big scale: thermonuclear bomb.
I’ve never actually seen the movie, but the trailer for Beverly Hills Chihuahua made me angry the first time I saw it in theaters. It made me angry that somebody had made that, and expected members of my species to be interested in watching the film it was advertising.
I would have thought that Broadway would had taken this play on by now.
Haven't seen this movie thanks for the review
This was the first movie I ever saw Akim Tamiroff in. As for movies that make me angry, Like Water for Chocolate. I was actually happy when the mother died.
Of course the protagonist is arrogant, he works for the CDC, I mean the AEC.
Unlike the Hulk, we like you when you get angry. Great review.
Adam Chance as the scientist /government operative in "Agent for H.A.R.M." might actually give this guy a run for his money in arrogance.
Another appearance from the Science Advisor! YAYY!!!
Other movies that made me angry were all of the adaptations of Terry Pratchett's books that David Jason ruined by deciding that being a fan meant he should star in them.
Love the t-shirt Robin.
What films make me angry? Any big budget films with a terrible script. Big budget films with bad editing ( Joker, Moulin Rouge, Bohemian Rhapsody, ect, ect). Big budget films that have..... I can go on, but I can't be arsed to type an essay about the modern film industry.
Things are about to get REAL!
I thought this was a portrait of
Spider-Man's archenemy.
You know if they had just made the feather prop too big to come from any natural bird then the hero wouldn't seem like a complete mad man. Just give him a two foot long feather and things start falling into place, wonder why they didn't do that?
One movie really made me angry and that was gangs of New York How could a bunch of street thugs beat up trained Union soldiers it made no sense to me
Starring dr fouchie!
They have a nice lamp.
The first movie I watched on Creature Features with Bob Wilkins in ‘72 or ‘73 :)
To a 7 yr old in 1966, I can tell you this movie was terrifying.
Probably created a few bee phobics
As someone who lives some place with tons of vultures, I can tell you that vultures aren't birds of prey. They're carrion eaters and I've seen them eat just about everything ( on the bus ride back home I saw a vulture dragging a dead cat off the road next to a graveyard, the lady friend I was with got upset at the sight and another time I saw ten of them having a meeting about twenty feet from a dead male deer). Besides vultures aren't big enough to carry off anything, they stand about two feet tall. The only thing I know of that could do something like this are reports of giant birds with 25 foot wing spans and one once tried to carry off a little boy in Illinois back in 1976 ( Thunder Birds).
There are no birds with such a wingspan in the United States. Certainly not since before there were humans in the Americas, if then. I can't remember exactly where, but there are some large eagles in the Philippines, or somewhere else in Asia. They still can't carry off people.
The Thunderbirds are Native American spirits that bring rain and storms.
@@julietfischer5056 There are many reports of giant birds in the United States. Massachusetts - 1995, 2015. North Dakota - 2015. Virginia - 2013. Missouri - 1961 , Illinois - 1977. And there are dozens more
from other places in the US. Always see things as facts and possibilitys. THOUGH A GOOD DEAL IS TOO STRANGE TO BE BELIEVED, NOTHING IS TOO STRANGE TO HAVE HAPPENED - Thomas Hardy
@@danddoty3981- Reports, but no specimens. How did the witnesses know the animals were oversized? What criteria did they use? How did they estimate distance and relative sizes? Conditions of the sightings? The witnesses' emotional states? If I see a large bird dive-bombing a child, I'm not calmly noting its exact size or its size relative to the child, or even its exact behavior. After it's all over, my memory of events would be exaggerated thanks to emotions.
There are limits to how large birds can be and still fly (even at a glide). Weight is always an issue.
@@julietfischer5056 Two witnesses from Texas were able judge the bird's size. They saw one of these birds sitting on top of telephone. They judged the bird's wing span by the high of the pole ( 30ft). A pilot in Alaska flew next to one of these birds and said was it as big as the engine plane he was flying. Bumble Bees wings are too small to support them , yet they still fly. Look at reports yourself, watch the videos of the witnesses on RUclips. Look at the evidence before making a call.
@@danddoty3981 This kind of anecdotal "evidence" is valueless. Produce a specimen.
Those fools in the halls of science.
This is the most scientifically accurate episode yet! I know. I found a feather.
I LOVE Professor Dad!