Hillbilly Monster/Grandparents From Outer Space

Starring:Conrad Brooks, Michael T. Burns, Bruce Lindsay, Joe McCabe (III), George Romley
Director: Conrad Brooks
Studio: Alpha Video
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Hillbilly Monster/Grandparents From Outer Space
Starring: Conrad Brooks , Michael T. Burns , Bruce Lindsay , Joe McCabe (III) , and George Romley
Director: Conrad Brooks
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B0002W4URK
Release Date: 2004-10-26

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"I Don't Think They Know Electricity Is Our Food Source!".......2007-03-26

"Hillbilly Monster" is the sequel to Jan-Gel, but stars Jan-Gel's alleged love child. The film opens with Conrad Brooks walking to a carnival owned by the evil swindler Jake (who consistently talks to his cane, which he has named "Mr. Turtle") passing a theater on the way. Please note the marquee: "Bikini Drive In...Plan 9 From Outer Space...Conrad Brooks and Bela Lugosi." I am amazed at Conrad's chutzpah to give himself higher billing than Bela. After venturing into the carnival we spend a pointless moment with the worst actor in the film, the "Popcorn Man," subsequently strolling about the grounds past such appealing acts as the "Figi Island Mermaid" [sic], the "Wolf Boy," and, of course, the "Hillbilly Monster."

The Hillbilly Monster escapes by using a cunning plan the carnival owners could have never anticipated: he walks into the woods. Jake dispatches Conrad ("Dirty Harry") and "Gypsy Pete" to look for the Hillbilly Monster. Conrad explains this by using expository phone calls to someone named "Slug." On the way back to the plot, Conrad finds himself (apparently) in an entirely different movie when he discovers a "torture chamber" decorated with both skeletons and doilies.

The Hillbilly Monster's father, Zeke, wants payment for his son's services rendered from Jake, but Jake worms out of the deal. Fed up, he goes to the local newspaper to see a reporter, Gail, who puts the story on the front page of the morning edition. Because he is angst-ridden, the Hillbilly Monster breaks into a cemetery and quickly finds his foot ensnared in a bear trap. (When he screams in pain I think you may enjoy the elephant trumpeting sound effect used.)

The film cuts to a nasty old shack while a caption reads "Doctor Love's Sanitarium." Dr' Love's assistant, Jason, brings Hillbilly Monster into the garage...I mean...lab, where Dr. Love successfully performs surgery on Hillbilly Monster's foot.

The next scene shows General Ulysses S. Grant playing the piano to a Confederate general officer among much bickering. While I thought I was watching yet another movie for a moment, they are just patients of Dr. Love; meanwhile a stalker in a bowling shirt is pinching women in a scene that is utterly unconnected with the film in any way. You will later enjoy the worst Mae West impersonator in history, who is also in residence. Please note that the sanitarium is decorated with swords, knives, sabers, and oriental disemboweling cutlasses.

Dr. Love concludes that the Hillbilly Monster is a half man-half ape creature but is "as harmless as a kitten," in a turn of phrase that will make Ed Wood fans recall Tor Johnson in "Plan 9 From Outer Space." Dr. Love releases the Hillbilly Monster back to nature because he is being pursued by the police, while at the same time an intergalactic tricycle lands on the front lawn. This all makes sense, you see, because the sanitarium was built on an ancient Indian burial ground.

In the end Zeke explains that he found the Hillbilly Monster in the woods and he believes it to be the son of Jan-Gel. This leads to questions for me: if Hillbilly Monster is half man-half ape, what did Jan-Gel mate with to produce him, and which half did Jan-Gel bring to the party? On second thought, I really don't want to think any more about that.

The film ends in classic Brooks fashion: Jake driving around in an old truck engaging in a diatribe about finding the Hillbilly Monster, while The Hillbilly Monster theme song punctuates the credits.

This film was not up to the extremely high standard of trash cinema set by the Jan-Gel series, but nonetheless showcases the "talents" of Conrad Brooks in a triumph of grade-Z cinema. Nobody else could have made this film.

"Grandparents From Outer Space" stars Conrad Brooks and Eleanor Roosevelt. I jest. She looks like Eleanor Roosevelt, but is really Ruth Brooks (Conrad's wife, I presume.) The film is about 30 minutes long, but well worth seeing for Brooks fans. The Brooks' flying saucer lands on a farm with the grandparents on a mission to find their grandchildren, "Sturvakey" and "Sparvickey." Conrad ("Lembit") and his wife ("Zarphasia") use a pizza cutter (apparently) as a navigational instrument to find inhabitants of Earth. Note: portly grandparents should not wear skin tight aluminum foil suits. Enjoy the hilarity as Conrad talks to a horse, eats cucumber salad complete with napkin, and eats the candles from a birthday cake for "energy." Conrad and spouse feed on electricity ("I sense there's a source on that wall over there,") and end up blowing the entire town off the grid. The power company suspects foul play and promptly sends a cop to arrest Conrad and wife. On the walk to the station, the cop wants a soda, so he chains Conrad to a lamp post while he goes inside a drug store. Zarphasia "focuses her energy on his chains" and Conrad runs for it. Zarphasia says she will catch up with him later using a "tracking device" that is clearly a flashlight.

They telepathically find their grandchildren, who have fallen into the clutches of a husband and wife social worker team, who consult with Professor Veljo Kivi at the Paranormal Institute about the kids. (The kids claim to be from space, and constantly surprise everyone by doing things like putting their tongues in lamp sockets.) Please absorb the visual feast that is Kivi's office: it is the single ugliest room I can recall. Note to Conrad: blue bookcases do not go with a leopard skin sofa set. The grandparents track the kids down in a powerfully emotional reunion scene, and subsequently blast off from the cornfield.

This is not one of Brook's better works, but it is amusing to B-movie fans. Overall I recommend this set to anyone who likes cheesy movies, and especially fans of Brooks or Ed Wood.

conrad brooks monster classic.......2006-07-03

this film may be new but its still a classic.conrad brooks is a good friend of mine and he has told me alla about how he made fantastic movie along hith the other jan-gel movies its an honore to now such a great man.

The son of Jan-Gel isn't really a chip off the old block.......2006-06-04

Sometimes referred to as Jan-Gel 3, Hillbilly Monster: Son of Jan-Gel is actually the story of the supposed son of the Beast from the East. If you've seen either of the first Jan-Gel movies, you don't even want to think about that 50,000-year-old caveman reproducing. At least it wasn't with a human female, since the Hillbilly Monster is half-ape and half-man. The unlucky ape must have been a gentle beast, as Jan-Gel's son is generally quite harmless (whereas Jan-Gel spent all of his time yelling and killing people). To the world, though, he's just a freak, an oddity of nature they pay good money to see at the local carnival. Having been raised by seemingly kind parents, the Hillbilly Monster doesn't take to being humiliated and caged like an animal. As soon as he gets the chance, he escapes and heads off into the wilderness. After he gets his foot caught in a bear trap, he finds himself taken in by Dr. Love (George Romley). At the good doctor's sanitarium, ape-boy finds a sense of peace and even friendship. The carnival owner wants his main attraction back, however. That means it's only a matter of time before the cops show up at Dr. Love's door with a search warrant. Can Dr. Love protect the harmless beast, or will he fall back into the greedy clutches of the freak show manager?

I got a huge kick out of the first two Jan-Gel movies, but Hillbilly Monster proved to be a bit of a disappointment. It runs a relatively lengthy 82 minutes, but the 20-25 extra minutes of film seems to come down to extended shots of the monster walking through the forest and Conrad Brooks walking around the carnival in search of him. That gets us to the biggest problem with the film. Although written, directed, and produced by the one and only Conrad Brooks, the man himself only appears for some 10 minutes or so early on. His absence is sorely felt the rest of the way. Let's face it; the whole point of watching a Conrad Brooks film is to watch Conrad Brooks showcase his unique version of bad acting (which goes back over 200 films to his early days alongside Ed Wood himself). I do appreciate him giving us an attractive actress for once, but this whole story really needed much more of Brooks' singular charisma to make it enjoyable. Since the Hillbilly Monster isn't killing people, there's just not a whole lot going on - that makes the film little more than a marathon of uninspired bad acting.

Out of This World, aka Grandparents from Outer Space, also can't be seen as a vintage Conrad Brooks film. For one thing, it's barely a half hour long. More importantly, though, it was written, produced, and directed (in 1996, several years before Jan-Gel woke up from his 50,000-year nap) by someone other than Conrad Brooks. Brooks truly is the star of the film, though, one-half of a pair of alien grandparents who come to Earth looking for their grandchildren. It has its funny moments - e.g., Conrad trying to communicate with a horse (the first life form he found), struggling to figure out what to do at an Earthling meal, and causing a huge blackout by feeding on electricity through a power outlet) - but it's not enough to make this DVD a must-have, even for Conrad Brooks fans like myself.

Redskin Hogette stars in Movie!.......2005-03-05

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WHAT A SEQUEL !.......2005-01-08

DID YOU FIND YOURSELF ASTOUNDED BY THE FIRST TWO JAN GEL MOVIES (AVAILABLE ON ONE DVD HERE AT AMAZON)? THEN YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS ONE!

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