Nutball director Thomas Berdinski (of "The Italian Zombie Movie" fame) is at it again with this wild short film originally done for an indie horror anthology called "The Collective". "The Giant Rubber Monster Movie: Sascratch vs, Afrodesious" again, succeeds where others have failed, for many of the same reasons as Berdinski's "IZM"--it laughs WITH the source/inspiration material rather than laughs AT it. And that, friends, makes for a wickedly entertaining film!! TGRMM features the talents of just about every horror host East of the Rockies, some in mere photos or cameos, and some in meatier roles--witness Sigmund Zoid's super villain or smoking hot/goofy news anchors Marlena Midnite & Robyn Graves. The "heroes" of the story Miko and Ken, are wonderfully played by Brendan and Jeff Bromley, a father & son team in real life, which must explain the excellent comedy timing and chemistry they display here. The monsters are straight out of Toho, the effects are strictly cheese, the martial arts are suitably "chop-socky" the gore is ample, the laughs are plentiful, and the performances are, like Dr. Zoid's ship, out of this world! Put it on your "must watch" list!! Your face is gonna hurt from smiling so much!
4 Reviews
This, is what smiles are made of.
gahamilton-425-16880321 July 2012
If you're looking for Michael Bay's latest multi-million dollar effects extravaganza or that so slick it slides off your screen studio horror flick, this ain't that.
The Giant Rubber Monster Movie is, it's own special way, better.
If you're of a certain age (like me), you remember movies like this. Back in the day, those pre-internet days, when Godzilla and his merry band of misfits ruled that channel way at the end of your dial (and almost always on the 'regular' channels on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon). Those were the days of weird screeching monsters from outer space and Japanese guys that spoke out of sync that occasionally could fly or shot laser beams out of their eyes.
Laser beams out of their eyes! and you knew those monsters were nothing but guys in rubber suits and that background they 'flew' behind looked awfully funny, and some part of you just didn't care. Those monsters did some serious city stomping and butt kicking and many a days on the playground were spent wrestling around with your friends (embarrassingly screeching yourself), proclaiming who would be 'King'.
This, is one of those kind of movies.
Later, you'd see more movies like those ones you saw as a kid. There was USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear (mmmm, Rhonda Shear ahem, sorry, where was I?) and movies in the video stores with crazy titles that had jungles and aliens and - always best of the best - even more guys in giant rubber suits.
I loved those movies. There were the kind of things that occasionally made you scratch your head and wonder who in the hell made this and you knew whoever did didn't have a lot of money and you just didn't care then either. If anything, it made them better. Those movies were fun and exciting, and above all, they had heart.
The Giant Rubber Monster Movie is one those movies.
It had me laughing, cheering and rooting for it and you can tell when you're watching it the people making it were having fun. A gore filled slaughter to wipe out the family of the monster's creator so he won't be born in the future that includes a grenade between somebody's boobs? Check. A giant monster who doesn't know the difference between sexual moves and fighting moves? Yep, we got that. A too cute for his own good kid who gets mixed up with a guy with ties to the government who just so happens to be a serial killer? Yeah, why the hell not.
This movie has all these things and so much more. From those model tanks rolling across the landscape to director Thomas Berdinski going for broke as 'Sascratch' (his PR alter ego) to do battle with the dreaded 'Afrodesious', you'll be taken back to the days of big G and his terror on Tokyo and can't help but smile. The cast includes horror hosts Sigmund Zoid and Count Gregula (and speaking of too cute, horror host Roxy Tyler sets up the whole thing with her opening narrative and in my mind, about steals the show. Between her and Marlena Midnite and Robin Graves, if you like you some pretty girls, it's got plenty of those, too).
I bought this movie, along with 'Normegeddon - A Mark Anvil Thriller', because the director had posted about one of the actor's needing funds due to an illness. That my friends, like this movie, is all heart.
Show this guy and your childhood some love and check it out. You be screeching with delight and stomping that old Lego city of yours in your mind for sure.
The Giant Rubber Monster Movie is, it's own special way, better.
If you're of a certain age (like me), you remember movies like this. Back in the day, those pre-internet days, when Godzilla and his merry band of misfits ruled that channel way at the end of your dial (and almost always on the 'regular' channels on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon). Those were the days of weird screeching monsters from outer space and Japanese guys that spoke out of sync that occasionally could fly or shot laser beams out of their eyes.
Laser beams out of their eyes! and you knew those monsters were nothing but guys in rubber suits and that background they 'flew' behind looked awfully funny, and some part of you just didn't care. Those monsters did some serious city stomping and butt kicking and many a days on the playground were spent wrestling around with your friends (embarrassingly screeching yourself), proclaiming who would be 'King'.
This, is one of those kind of movies.
Later, you'd see more movies like those ones you saw as a kid. There was USA Up All Night with Rhonda Shear (mmmm, Rhonda Shear ahem, sorry, where was I?) and movies in the video stores with crazy titles that had jungles and aliens and - always best of the best - even more guys in giant rubber suits.
I loved those movies. There were the kind of things that occasionally made you scratch your head and wonder who in the hell made this and you knew whoever did didn't have a lot of money and you just didn't care then either. If anything, it made them better. Those movies were fun and exciting, and above all, they had heart.
The Giant Rubber Monster Movie is one those movies.
It had me laughing, cheering and rooting for it and you can tell when you're watching it the people making it were having fun. A gore filled slaughter to wipe out the family of the monster's creator so he won't be born in the future that includes a grenade between somebody's boobs? Check. A giant monster who doesn't know the difference between sexual moves and fighting moves? Yep, we got that. A too cute for his own good kid who gets mixed up with a guy with ties to the government who just so happens to be a serial killer? Yeah, why the hell not.
This movie has all these things and so much more. From those model tanks rolling across the landscape to director Thomas Berdinski going for broke as 'Sascratch' (his PR alter ego) to do battle with the dreaded 'Afrodesious', you'll be taken back to the days of big G and his terror on Tokyo and can't help but smile. The cast includes horror hosts Sigmund Zoid and Count Gregula (and speaking of too cute, horror host Roxy Tyler sets up the whole thing with her opening narrative and in my mind, about steals the show. Between her and Marlena Midnite and Robin Graves, if you like you some pretty girls, it's got plenty of those, too).
I bought this movie, along with 'Normegeddon - A Mark Anvil Thriller', because the director had posted about one of the actor's needing funds due to an illness. That my friends, like this movie, is all heart.
Show this guy and your childhood some love and check it out. You be screeching with delight and stomping that old Lego city of yours in your mind for sure.
The Giant Rubber Monster Movie - The most fun you'll ever have watching giant rubber monsters do battle!
DMentDCinema23 April 2011
Who doesn't have fond memories of those Saturday morning movies that played on the local UHF stations where some poor city was suddenly attacked by a giant monster, only to have another giant monster, acting on the behalf of innocent people, foil the evil monster's diabolical plans to destroy the city?
I've always loved these sort of movies so when I learned of Thomas Berdinski's short film The Giant Rubber Monster Movie I was eager to check it out.
In The Giant Rubber Monster Movie: Sascratch Versus Afrodesious, Dr. Sigmund Zoid (Played by none other than the one and only Dr. Sigmund Zoid, horror host legend.), an evil vegetarian from the year 25,000,000 A.D.(Apparently the whole 2012 end of the world theory is way off!), makes off with a time machine and heads back in time, to present day in an attempt to destroy all edible animals known to man. How does Zoid plan on pulling this off? By using a giant monster whom he has complete control over. The monster, Afrodesious, is equipped with a giant proboscis, something that is sure to please all of the giant monster ladies out there, with which he devours the animals as well as any people who happen to cross his path.
Mankind, and the poor critters of the world, are not without hope. It seems a young lad, named Miko, has stowed away aboard Zoid's ship, and with the help of a man named Ken, who just may or may not be a serial killer, Miko has a plan to save the world. He plans on summoning the mighty monster known as Sascratch, a half-man, half-Sasquatch creature who looks like a giant Tribble from Star Trek as he travels, and like a slightly hairier Carrot Top when he's ready for battle. Miko uses Sascratch to wage war against the legendary Afrodesious.
If Sascratch can overcome Afrodesious' propensity for the Kama Sutra, maybe, just maybe, the animals of the earth can be spared, and Zoid's diabolical plans can be squashed!
Fun. That's the one word to best describe this film. If you watch this without really enjoying yourself, you are far too serious and you are perhaps in need of some happy pills.
Berdinski isn't trying to make a serious monster film such as The Host or even Cloverfield. He simply set out to pay homage to the Japanese giant rubber monster movies that kids of the 70s, such as myself, grew up loving. Shows and movies such as Ultraman, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, Spectreman, The Space Giants and Godzilla are the obvious inspiration for this film. There's a lot of love for, and maybe a little poking fun at, these type of films present in Thomas Berdinski's The Giant Rubber Monster Movie.
I highly recommend The Giant Rubber Monster Movie to anyone who grew up with, or is simply a fan of, the giant monster movies of old, as well as anyone with a pulse and a sense of humor.
I've always loved these sort of movies so when I learned of Thomas Berdinski's short film The Giant Rubber Monster Movie I was eager to check it out.
In The Giant Rubber Monster Movie: Sascratch Versus Afrodesious, Dr. Sigmund Zoid (Played by none other than the one and only Dr. Sigmund Zoid, horror host legend.), an evil vegetarian from the year 25,000,000 A.D.(Apparently the whole 2012 end of the world theory is way off!), makes off with a time machine and heads back in time, to present day in an attempt to destroy all edible animals known to man. How does Zoid plan on pulling this off? By using a giant monster whom he has complete control over. The monster, Afrodesious, is equipped with a giant proboscis, something that is sure to please all of the giant monster ladies out there, with which he devours the animals as well as any people who happen to cross his path.
Mankind, and the poor critters of the world, are not without hope. It seems a young lad, named Miko, has stowed away aboard Zoid's ship, and with the help of a man named Ken, who just may or may not be a serial killer, Miko has a plan to save the world. He plans on summoning the mighty monster known as Sascratch, a half-man, half-Sasquatch creature who looks like a giant Tribble from Star Trek as he travels, and like a slightly hairier Carrot Top when he's ready for battle. Miko uses Sascratch to wage war against the legendary Afrodesious.
If Sascratch can overcome Afrodesious' propensity for the Kama Sutra, maybe, just maybe, the animals of the earth can be spared, and Zoid's diabolical plans can be squashed!
Fun. That's the one word to best describe this film. If you watch this without really enjoying yourself, you are far too serious and you are perhaps in need of some happy pills.
Berdinski isn't trying to make a serious monster film such as The Host or even Cloverfield. He simply set out to pay homage to the Japanese giant rubber monster movies that kids of the 70s, such as myself, grew up loving. Shows and movies such as Ultraman, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, Spectreman, The Space Giants and Godzilla are the obvious inspiration for this film. There's a lot of love for, and maybe a little poking fun at, these type of films present in Thomas Berdinski's The Giant Rubber Monster Movie.
I highly recommend The Giant Rubber Monster Movie to anyone who grew up with, or is simply a fan of, the giant monster movies of old, as well as anyone with a pulse and a sense of humor.
Tom Berdinski has done it again!! Another great homage/spoof!!
jws127230 April 2011
From the Muskegon, Michigan Master Of Manic Monster Madness & Mayhem, Tom Berdinski, comes The Giant Rubber Monster Movie: Sascratch Versus Afrodesious. Berdinski gave us the great indie horror flick/miniseries The Italian Zombie Movie, Parts I & II. Now, Berdinski has turned his eye for old classics of the 70's & 80's towards the Toho monster movies, Ultraman, and other movies involving giant robots/monsters/creatures, including Godzilla, of course. Into this movie mix, Tom then throws some kung-fu, a little "Dexter", and every horror host that he knows from the convention circuit. What results is nothing short of hilarious. It's meant to be cheesy, and revels in it!! Definitely check it out!
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