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Summary: Never Stand Too Close To A Two-Headed Man!
Review: A reporter visits a mad scientist in Japan, and is unwittingly injected with a serum (after being slipped a mickey) that slowly changes his personality. It also gives him shoulder pains that somehow make noises like my grandfather whistling. The mad scientist tries to keep him in Japan by taking him to Tokyo for a binge of sahki and babes. The reporter stays drunk and ends up running around with the mad scientist's beautiful assistant (much to the chagrin of his hand-wringing wife). Yawn! Then, his right hand gets hairy, an eyeball pops out of his shoulder, and the mayhem begins!! He starts roaming the streets of Tokyo, killing people for no apparent reason. Sort of a "jack-the-gripper". Soon, a head grows (more like inflates) out of the guy's shoulder. The cops attempt to catch him by letting him knock them off one by one. The whole mess ends up back at the mad scientist's mountain laboratory, where the evil mad scientist has just shot his wife (an earlier experiment gone wrong he keeps in a cage in the basement) as well as his beautiful assistant. the manster shows up, kills the mad doctor, splits into two separate entities (human and trog-like beasty), and battles his hairy self to the death! Who wins? Who cares?! This one's been a favorite of mine since I was nine! A hoot-o-rama..
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Summary: Beware the MANSTER!
Review: An American reporter in Tokyo is sent to interview a Japanese scientist working on bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the doctor realizes that the hapless reporter is the perfect subject for his next experiment, he drugs the man and injects him with a serum that gradually transforms him into the hideous MANSTER. Great over-the-top acting and wild special effects for the time make this a *must-see*! The 1960s Tokyo setting doesn't hurt the film at all and an enthusiastic cast of American & Japanese actors make the b/w flick lots of fun to watch.
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Summary: DOUBLE TROUBLE!
Review: An average cult flick, THE MANSTER is saved from disaster by the performance of Peter Dyneley as the half-man, half-monster who wreaks havoc over Japan.Larry Stanford (Dyneley) visits Dr Suzuki (Satashi Nakamura) at his mountain-top laboratory in Japan. He unknowlingly gets infected with a DNA-altering serum that turns him into a two-headed werewolf creature. As the reign of terror over Japan begins, both Larry's wife Linda (Jane Hylton) and his lover Tara (Terri Zimmern) try to pull him back from the destruction that will envelope them all... Pretty stock-targeted cult flick. Fine performances by Hylton and Zimmern get things going, while the Japanese locale offers some great scenes.
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Summary: unintentionally -funny, dark, grim, lurid, low grade shocker
Review: Grim, dark, dirty, campy, cheap, and cheesy shocker taken to the - nth degree. Mix the old Universal style horror with bizzare exploitive sleeze. Far far off the wall. When watched with a crowd the Manster seems silly, nonsense. Watch it by your self - the Manster is compeling in a weird, unintentionaly comic but ugly sort of way. Anyway you cant take your eyes off it once it starts.
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Summary: unintentionally -funny, dark, grim, lurid, low grade shocker
Review: Grim, dark, dirty, campy, cheap, and cheesy shocker taken to the - nth degree. Mix the old Universal style horror with bizzare exploitive sleeze. Far far off the wall. When watched with a crowd the Manster seems silly, nonsense. Watch it by your self - the Manster is compeling in a weird, unintentionaly comic but ugly sort of way. Anyway you cant take your eyes off it once it starts.
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Summary: Cheap ,dark, goofy, lurid, Freudian noir/horror = lotsa fun
Review: I feel dirty giving the movie three stars or even writing about it for that matter. But this is a really bad entertaining film gem. The Manster has a classic film-noir touch - filmed in black and white, dirty, dark, foggy, shadowy. There is a grim, confused, trenchcoat wearing, unshaven anti-hero. Combine these elements with a mad scientist, freaks, lurid horror imagery and some real nightmarish settings in Tokyo. Include a few cheap sets, gratuitus chases, and really bogus nonsense science. In addtion there is lewd behavior, drunkeness, and lechery. Sprinkled with some hokey acting, cliches and silly drama. Erupting volcanos, geisha girls, chanting munks, Jack the Ripper style murders, Ape-Men, splitting bodies, splattering blood and the infamous eye in the shoulder... Dont forget to add a dash of Freud. All this in 72 minutes and somehow the picture still seems trite. But for good or bad, The Manster is always remembered. The Alpha video version is really not a bad quality DVD. It has not been restored and there are very few scratches - but the film print is clear and the sound is not bad for an old C movie. A note - The Manster's script is just begging to be reworked and the film remade - but even grimmer - with more pyschology, bad behavior, sex, special effects and gore ...could a perfect representation of the darkest side of present day man steaming into the new millenium. Id love to see Tim Burton's or David Cronenberge's take on this one Come on - what are you guys waiting for!
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Summary: Cheap ,dark, goofy, lurid, Freudian noir/horror = lotsa fun
Review: I feel dirty giving the movie three stars or even writing about it for that matter. But this is a really bad entertaining film gem. The Manster has a classic film-noir touch - filmed in black and white, dirty, dark, foggy, shadowy. There is a grim, confused, trenchcoat wearing, unshaven anti-hero. Combine these elements with a mad scientist, freaks, lurid horror imagery and some real nightmarish settings in Tokyo. Include a few cheap sets, gratuitus chases, and really bogus nonsense science. In addtion there is lewd behavior, drunkeness, and lechery. Sprinkled with some hokey acting, cliches and silly drama. Erupting volcanos, geisha girls, chanting munks, Jack the Ripper style murders, Ape-Men, splitting bodies, splattering blood and the infamous eye in the shoulder... Dont forget to add a dash of Freud. All this in 72 minutes and somehow the picture still seems trite. But for good or bad, The Manster is always remembered. The Alpha video version is really not a bad quality DVD. It has not been restored but there are very few scratches - the film print is clear and the sound is not bad for an old C movie. A note - The Manster's script is just begging to be reworked and the film remade - but even grimmer - with more pyschology, bad behavior, sex, special effects and gore ...could a perfect representation of the darkest side of present day man steaming into the new millenium. Come on Tim Burton - what are you waiting for!
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Summary: Scientist Suzuki's Scary Subject- A MANSTER!
Review: In Tokeyo, Dr. Suzuki likes to conduct experiments on unsuspecting human beings. Enter Larry Standford, American newspaper reporter. Dr. Suzuki drugs Larry, injects him with his special ENZYME and POOF! A MANSTER (Half man, half monster) slowly but surely emerges. Murders ensue, of course along with a really FREAKY eye growing out of Larry's shoulder. Soon a WHOLE BEASTLIKE head with scary fangs sprouts up! The transformation sure gives a new meaning to the old romantic song, "Put Your Head On My Shoulder"! Great special effects for it's time and just a LOT of cheesy, scary fun! The film is filmed in black and white/1960/72 minutes Highly recommended for schlock lovers! Happy Watching & Don't Loose Your Head!
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Summary: Scientist Suzuki's Scary Subject- A MANSTER!
Review: In Tokeyo, Dr. Suzuki likes to conduct experiments on unsuspecting human beings. Enter Larry Standford, American newspaper reporter. Dr. Suzuki drugs Larry, injects him with his special ENZYME and POOF! A MANSTER (Half man, half monster) slowly but surely emerges. Murders ensue, of course along with a really FREAKY eye growing out of Larry's shoulder. Soon a WHOLE BEASTLIKE head with scary fangs sprouts up! The transformation sure gives a new meaning to the old romantic song, "Put Your Head On My Shoulder"! Great special effects for it's time and just a LOT of cheesy, scary fun! The film is filmed in black and white/1960/72 minutes Highly recommended for schlock lovers! Happy Watching & Don't Loose Your Head!
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Summary: 1st Two-Headed Movie
Review: The Manster is the first of the two-headed monsters, long before Ray Milland and Rosie Grier's version. An American journalist visits a reclusive scientist in Japan for an interview. Soon, the journalist is use as a guinea pig where he is injected was a serum that causes an eye to grow on his shoulder. Soon the eye becomes a second head.
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