December 17, 2008.

a great so bad its good movie with a little over acting.

Rating: 4
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. It is like a vampire getting to his coffin and beating the sun coming up. The song the gal does will haunt you for months. Check out his wet pants from sweating from the rubber suit underneath his clothes as he climbs the tower to get away from the cops. It is worth the money to buy this dvd. Brings back the old theater Saturday day matinees when you were a kid.
Herb Salisbury

December 28, 2008.

b-monster flick that has its good points.

Rating: 3
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.

December 19, 2007.

Excellent Sci-Fi Thriller!! B-Movies at their Best!.

Rating: 5
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...

December 01, 2007.

those were the days.

Rating: 4
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.

December 19, 2007.

Robert Clarke's vanity project.

Rating: 4
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 one useable arm flops around in front of a piano. Needless to say, it's love. Things go awry. A famous doctor comes around to cure him (the mind boggles) but not before he goes off again to canoodle with the floozy.More bad stuff happens, he misjudges a "trooper dusting" and snatches a little girl. Really! I'm not making it up!

It all ends badly with a hokey indictment of industrial progress and we all get to turn off the TV and go to bed. I loved it and would recommend it to anyone who likes this kind of stuff.