Friday, October 23, 2009

Caltiki, The Immortal Monster

Caltiki, The Immortal Monster is a 1959 horror film I chose having been inspired by the Italian Horror Blogathon.



1000 Misspent Hours describes it as "a tacky, stereotypically 50’s monster movie, compete with half-baked science, stuff that gives off ionizing radiation for absolutely no reason, and a running time not much in excess of 75 minutes" and gives it negative 3 stars. DVDTalk says it
is a taut, 73-minute thriller, and looks nothing like the visually flat, so-called semi-documentary style look of most American sci-fi films of the period. Rather, visually it's more of a bridge between film noir in the (cinematographer) John Alton mode, and the limitless imagination and ingenuity Bava would soon be applying to his own, "official" movies.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:30 PM

    I'd like to thank you for bringing all of these movies to everyone's attention as of late. Although I may not see many of these films, I would never have had the opportunity to see any of them had you not made me aware of their availability on the Internet. Thank you.

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  2. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I get a kick out of this project. I had no idea there were so many of these kinds of films, and I enjoy watching them, though I'm running behind this year. I got overly ambitious and couldn't keep up with them.

    Thanks for commenting.

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