The Beast That Killed Women/ The Monster of Camp Sunshine

Starring:Juliet Anderson, Janet Banzet, Darlene Bennett, Dolores Carlos, Gigi Darlene, Byron Mabe, June Roberts (II), Sandra Sinclair
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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It's a nudist's nightmare as naked terror runs amuck in this delirious Horror-Film Nudist-Camp Drive-In Double Feature! "The Beast that Killed Women" (1965, 60 min.) - Unable to get an even tan, Delores Carlos and hubby Byron Mabe scurry off to a Miami nudist camp at precisely the same moment the camp is invaded by The Beast that Killed Women, a goofy-looking gorilla with an appetite for the ladies. Murder and panic quickly spread before a pretty policewoman volunteers to enter the camp as ape bait. "The Monster of Camp Sunshine" (1964, 74 min.) - Hugo, the tubby gardener of a New York nature camp, turns into The Monster of Camp Sunshine when he unwittingly drinks from a stream contaminated with a mysterious chemical that releases his "killer instinct" and he attacks a bunch of birthday-celebrating sun worshippers.

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Oh God!

Beauties & Beasts Box (Night of the Bloody Apes/ Feast of Flesh / Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC / The Beast that Killed Women / The Monster of Camp Sunshine) (Something Weird)
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Release Date: 2003-04-01

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Get ready to monkey around with this smorgasbord of monsters and maidens, Something Weird-style! In Night of the Bloody Apes, a sex-crazed ape man looking for love (thanks to open heart surgery) tangles with the police and female wrestlers, while a crackpot, syringe-wielding maniac in a monster mask indulges in his own South American Feast of Flesh! Then have a double helping of prehistoric monkey business with The Mighty Gorga and One Million AC/DC, and head to the monster-filled nudist camps of The Beast that Killed Women and The Monster of Camp Sunshine where bathing beauties are menaced by clutching creatures from beyond! Plus you'll get a Bonus Fourth DVD packed with trailers from the outrageous Something Weird collection!

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Oh God!.......2003-04-27

This is quite possibly the best box set deal of the year! All of the films are great, if you like bad drive-in fare, which i love! The extras really make this worth while! About and hour and a half of trailers, 2 hours of shorts, drive-in intemission spots and comic and poster art with music from the great horror surf band, The Dead Elvi! ... Buy now or be forever sorry! p.s.- the movies offered are 25 dollars each , so yopu are getting 75 dollars worht of moives for like, 40 bucks off, plus the disc of trailers and full color booklets for each film! Awesome, totally awesome!

The Beast That Killed Women/ The Monster of Camp Sunshine

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You will never want to see another naked bottom ever again
Udderly Wretched
Pass the volleyball corner!
So bad it's good?? Well,in a way......
No story - good looking girls

The Beast That Killed Women/ The Monster of Camp Sunshine
Starring: Juliet Anderson , Janet Banzet , Darlene Bennett , Dolores Carlos , and Gigi Darlene
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ASIN: B00005ABVI
Release Date: 2001-04-03

Description

It's a nudist's nightmare as naked terror runs amuck in this delirious Horror-Film Nudist-Camp Drive-In Double Feature! "The Beast that Killed Women" (1965, 60 min.) - Unable to get an even tan, Delores Carlos and hubby Byron Mabe scurry off to a Miami nudist camp at precisely the same moment the camp is invaded by The Beast that Killed Women, a goofy-looking gorilla with an appetite for the ladies. Murder and panic quickly spread before a pretty policewoman volunteers to enter the camp as ape bait. "The Monster of Camp Sunshine" (1964, 74 min.) - Hugo, the tubby gardener of a New York nature camp, turns into The Monster of Camp Sunshine when he unwittingly drinks from a stream contaminated with a mysterious chemical that releases his "killer instinct" and he attacks a bunch of birthday-celebrating sun worshippers.

Customer Reviews:

You will never want to see another naked bottom ever again.......2005-04-03

The common denominator for this week's double-bill from Something Weird is that they both take place at nudist camps. However, you want to have the complete Something Weird experience with this week's DVD. Remember all the stuff they used to show in between movies at the drive-in? Well those are more than covered if you push the right button to start the festivities with this DVD. There are ads for goodies from the snack bar and trailers for the first feature, "The Beast That Killed Women" and other films set in nudist camps including "Goldilocks and the Three Bares," the first nudist musical in "Seymourscope" (think about it).

"The Beast That Killed Women," directed by Barry Mahon in 1965, takes us to a nudist camp where people are forever walking away from the camera thereby providing an endless supply of naked bottoms. The camp members are playing volleyball or jumping up and down trying to get a sundress at the top of a stone wall while pleasant music plays before it is time to go to bed, at which point the ladies get semi-dressed. What a shame a beast is going to interrupt the fun. Then everybody who is still awake gathers in front of a fire on the beach. They are all dressed and are watching a young woman dressed in short blue skirt and top dance to the beat of the drums in what would be the most sensual moment of the film, when suddenly a gorilla with a dark blue face appears in the bushes. Once everybody is in bed (with the lights on) the beast goes on the attack. Expect lots of screaming and the beast carrying and dragging struggling (dressed) women around and not much else. Also expect to have a hard time understanding what people are saying at times in this movie (then you do and they are talking about "an ambulance coming downstairs"). The framing device is the police questioning a survivor of the slaughter, so he gets to provide narrative details that allows us to skip what must have been the really boring parts.

Not really, because when the ambulance comes downstairs to get the first dead body we follow the entire procedure like we have nothing better to do (or look at) for several minutes. My favorite part is when someone assures the police it really was a gorilla and not somebody dressed in a gorilla outfit. The most important thing is that despite the attacks that most of these people stay at their nudist camp (which, I must point out, is integrated). The trailer fooled me into thinking that the beast was going to kill a lot of women, but that is not really the case. But maybe that is the point as we celebrate the return to order as the police leave the camp and return to the real world of inhibitions and confining social mores. To be fair, this does make nudists look like ordinary people and the guys wear swim trunks when they dive into the pool to keep the film clean

Then we get to the Intermission. "Nude Ranch" involves badminton played by women in cowboy hats, bandanas, and half skirts (just in front). Then we get suckered by "The Great Train Robbery" into a series of ads for food that moves tantalizingly slow across the screen for minutes without end. Nostalgia has nudity beat on this DVD, even if it is the 1961 trailer for "Nudist Life" and the short "Bring 'em Back Nude" which is way older and in which sis makes herself at home in her brother's apartment while he is away and reads in his diary about an encounter with a couple of white goddesses in Africa. I think they spliced footage from Tarzan movies or National Geographic into this along with another guy in an ape suit. As soon as we get to the naked goddesses we are told to "Drop another dime for the next attractive subject," which tells us something about how you got to see this silent bit of cinema (you needed 50 cents for the complete narrative experience). Not surprisingly, the "Beauty and the Beast" short that I had seen on a previous DVD pops up here: it involves a dancing girl (i.e., stripper) who eventually gets attacked by (you guessed it) a guy in an ape suit. Then there is the trailer for "Eves on Skis," which involves natural girls basking in Alpine splendor, "Nudes on Tiger Reef" is the playground of the stars apparently, and "The Expose of the Nudist Racket" which puts nudism in the same class with Darwinism, Buddhism, Baptism, Natziism (sic), Journalism and dozen more -isms. By the time you get to "Back to Nature," which is in color, you just want to get to the second feature film. Then you can come back and check out the "Gallery of Drive-In Exploitation Art with Trash-O-Rama Radio-Spot Rarities."

It is hard to have expectation for "The Monster of Camp Sunshine, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature," directed by Ferenc Leroget in 1964, especially when we are told this motion picture is a "fable" because there are many nudists and only one monster (whereas life is generally the other way around). But the title credits look they were done by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python's Flying Circus, which is a pleasant surprise. A young woman heads away from New York City to Camp Sunshine where she enjoys the simple pleasures of her new found life. The problem is that a scientist dumps some toxic stuff into the river. Hugo, the rather simple fellow who is the gardener at the nudist camp, drinks the water and turns into a monster. This is similar to the first film in that we have mostly shots of the nudists sitting in the sun or having fun flying a kite and then suddenly there is a monster.

You can really make an argument that this would be a better film without the monster. Watching a woman in a revealing bathing suit pose in front of the Empire State Building is more memorable then anything at the camp until the laughingly over the top conclusion. Hugo has his share of problems as a monster but that is what provides the narrative arc for this film because otherwise these people go Camp Sunshine and do the same thing week after week during from Memorial Day to Labor Day. This also allows for increasingly tacky title cards to help make up for the lack of a compelling narrative until the situation is resolved by a guy in his underwear who has not only a gun but dynamite and a Tommy gun, a helpful skydiver, and a captain who shows up with the U.S. army (along with the U.S. cavalry, a large amphibious force, and long range cannons from both World War II and the Civil War) to save the day and make Camp Sunshine safe once more for Americans to take off their clothes and embrace nature. Then there is a brief summary of the supposedly good parts in case you missed them. Really.

"The Beast That Killed Women" (a.k.a. "The Beast That Molested Women" and "The Beast That Ruined Women") gets rated two stars but "The Monster of Camp Sunshine" (a.k.a. "Monster at Camp Sunshine") gets rated three just so you know which one is better. The extras, as is usually the case with these Something Weird DVDs, are the best part of your three-and-a-half hour late night experience and would be four stars (talking strictly entertainment value). Do the math and then divide by three because dividing by two would be just too darn cheeky after watching all these nudists. Be sure to join us next Saturday gang, when we try for a different genre of exploitation cinema with "Just for the Hell Of It" and "Blast-off Girls."

Udderly Wretched.......2004-09-09

First off, I apologize for the pun in my title, but it is unfortunately descriptive. As a disclaimer, I generally like Something Weird DVDs, but this one is terrible. The biggest sin of both these films is that they are stunningly boring. I was looking forward to the dreadful, nonsensical plots, bad acting, and silly extras, but in this case the entire DVD was so boring as to be virtually unwatchable.

Some of the Drive-In advertisements were modestly entertaining (I am still grossed out by the ad for "Toddy" a delicious chocolate drink in a can that is great hot or cold, or so they say...) but the two features were uninteresting in the extreme. There are only two positive things I can say about these features: first, the gorilla in "The Beast That Killed Women" is the worst man in a gorilla suit that I have ever seen (possibly exclusive of "Queen Kong"); and second, the credit sequence for "The Monster Of Camp Sunshine" is a hilarious piece of animated lunacy.

Of the two I liked "The Monster Of Camp Sunshine" better, as it was the cleverer of the two, although the monster is extremely lame. I particularly enjoyed the scene in which Marta (the only not unattractive cast member) gets pushed out of a New York high rise window by some sadistic laboratory mice. I found the conclusion of the film which involved a paratrooper in pajamas and an ascot, as well as stock footage from the Normandy invasion, and (apparently) a re-enactment of the battle of Gettysburg, to be a mite confusing. The best idea was the last minute of the film which featured a one minute (or so) recap of the feature. You can feel free to watch that and not feel like you missed anything. (You didn't.)

The short titled "Beauty and the Beast" is a truly stunning piece of musical mayhem. It is the only portion of this DVD I can really recommend.

Pass the volleyball corner!.......2003-12-22

This double feature from SWV is one of my favorites. The specials on this are funny as hell and The Beast that Killed women is a great cheasy flick. There's tons of funny 60's nudity of women with thick brooklyn accents and it's only 60 minutes long which is a great length for a cheasy movie. The Monster of Camp Sunshine is funny but incomprihensible and takes away from the chease but is almost redeemed by the last 5 minutes of WW2 stock fotage (if you can get there without falling asleep). All and all a must see for SWV fans.

So bad it's good?? Well,in a way.............2003-02-28

Where to begin?? "The Beast that Killed Women"is about an ape that has escaped and terrorizes(?)a nudist camp..Well actually he only kills one girl that I remember,but anyway...It's a fun movie.Look for the bonfire go from high to low and back and forth..some continuity problems?? As far as "The Monster of Camp Sunshine" goes it has to be seen to be believed.Why?Well,there is more music,less dialogue,too much padding and the so-called "monster" doesn't really do anything,except run around with an ax and only hurt 1 victim..The ending is laughable....It's not bad for what it is though..A movie that doesn't take itself seriously....The rest of the DVD has some pretty neat extras...

No story - good looking girls.......2002-11-23

Of the two movies, The Beast is better than The Monster. No full frontal nudity in the movies (there is in ONE one trailer), but loaded with T&A. DVD package well designed with tons of extras: trailers and vintage short nudie movies from the early century (the 20th that is...) Warning: no story and no acting !

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