The Manster (Digitally Remastered)
Studio: Digiview Productions
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
Product Description
An American reporter is sent to interview a Tokyo-based scientist. The scientist goes mad, and while experimenting with mutations, he turns the reporter into a two headed monster called The Manster, half-man and half-monster. The ending is truly bizarre. A MUST SEE!
Average customer rating:
- ALPHA DVD VERSION
- sucks
- One of my childhood favorites
- Great Movie
- A Huge Set Back For International Understanding
|
Manster
Starring: Peter Dyneley , Jane Hylton , Tetsu Nakamura , Terri Zimmern , and Norman Van Hawley
Director: Kenneth G. Crane , and George P. Breakston
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
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ASIN: B000087F20
Release Date: 2003-01-21 |
Customer Reviews:
ALPHA DVD VERSION.......2006-10-08
I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE ON A LOCAL TV PROGRAM CALLED 5:00 SHOWTIME IN THE MID-1960's & BEING A YOUNG LAD AT THE TIME FOUND THE MANSTER SOMEWHAT UNSETTLING, MORE ADULT-THEMED & LURID THAN THE USUAL BRIDE OF THE MONSTER/COSMIC MAN STUFF... WHICH IS WHY IT BECAME AN INSTANT FAVORITE!
YEAH IT'S KINDDA HOKEY & CHEAPLY MADE BUT IT'S CERTAINLY ENTERTAINING AND STILL FUN TO WATCH. THE HERO ISN'T REALLY A HERO (AN ALCOHOLIC SCUMBAG PERHAPS ) & THE MAD DOCTOR ISN'T REALLY ALL THAT MAD (HE DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH AN ARMY OF MANSTERS ).WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A LOW-KEY NOIRISH MASTERPIECE OF NIGHTMARE PROPORTIONS...OR JUST A GOOD TIME AT THE SAKI BAR. THE MANSTER STALKS HIS VICTIMS IN JAPANESE BACK-ALLEYS & THE KILLINGS ARE STRIKING & WELL DONE. AND OF COURSE THERE'S THE EYEBALL ON THE SHOULDER SCENE. IT'S ALL SO TERRIFYING & BLEAK YET FASCINATING & INANE. RECOMMENDED.
I VIEWED THE ALPHA DVD & IT PLAYED FINE...NO SKIPPING, NO FREEZING...& THE PICTURE QUALITY WAS VERY GOOD,CLEAR & QUITE WATCHABLE MAKING THIS DVD AN EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN. AS WITH THE FILM ITSELF, THE ALPHA DVD VERSION IS RECOMMENDED.
sucks.......2006-05-19
this has to be one of the worst movies ever made - it makes plan 9 from outer space oscar material and a winner at cannes
One of my childhood favorites.......2006-03-19
I remember watching this flick on TV back in the 60's, and it used to scare the daylights out of me. Especially the scene where he finds the eye embedded in his shoulder. And then, this flick, and many other movies like it, vanished from sight for almost 30 years.
Now, it's back in circulation, and I love it even more, because now, I find it truly HILARIOUS! When the main character, Larry Stanford, gets into his mood swings (caused by that serum that the Doctor injected into him), look out! He goes all-the-way off on everybody, including his boss, and his wife! This movie is worth watching just to see Larry verbally tear down everyone in sight, before he grows the extra head. Speaking of which, for a supposedly cheapie flick, the head-growing scene was superbly done. The sight of that extremely ugly head slowly sprouting up out of Larry's overcoat as he writhed in agony was well done. Now, the inevitable split scene, where the Manster is clutching onto a tree as his two heads slowly seperate into two beings, was also well done (especially when the two heads get far enough apart to actually look at each other....and scream). But c'mon! Larry's body should've been torn apart after that big ol' woolly beast ripped outta him. Nevertheless, this remains one of my all-time favorite horror classics, and I'm glad that it's back.
Great Movie.......2006-03-13
This movie has some of the things that are required for any good movie:
story
casting
location
The main character is a straight talking, hard drinking newpaper reporter who is very down to earth. That's what make it so shocking as he reacts to what happens.
He becomes the victim of a genetic experiment perpetrated by a mad scientist. This causes him to develop what we might call a
'split personality'. One side is his evil nature I guess and the other is his good side.
Don't think that things like this aren't possible as we continue to explore the mysteries of the genetic code.
The Atlanteans used genetic engineering to create 'things' that were only partly human to do all of their manual labor.
This brought the wrath of the gods down on Atlantis as it did to Dr. Suzuki. The god Vulcan terminated all of his experiments.
Recommended further viewing:
The Thing (from another world)
Horror Hotel
The Hideous Sun Demon
The Blob (with Steve McQueen)
The Indestructible Man
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Not Of This Earth (original)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
IT (The Terror From Beyond Space)
Jeff Marzano
A Huge Set Back For International Understanding .......2005-12-19
This cheesy and predictable monster movie from 1962 was a product of international cooperation between the US and Japan. The film is concerned with an evil Japanese scientist who (of course) lives adjacent to a volcano (what with Tokyo having such a high cost of living and all) who injects a reporter with a drug that changes him from a nice guy to a criminally insane two-headed monster. Obeying the movie dictum that all monsters are evil, he goes on a rampage and terrorizes the country.
In the end his wife from New York shows up, confronts him and spends the remainder of the film in hysterics. The climax of the movie is when the Manster takes care of the evil scientist, then splits in half in the most laughable transmogrification scene in history (it happens behind a tree). The reporter becomes normal, and the monkey-demon pushes the love-interest geisha into the volcano. After the reporter pushes the monkey-demon into the volcano, too, the police show up and moralize for a bit (this will remind some viewers of "Bride of the Monster") then explain how the Japanese legal system will have to sort the whole mess out.
There are many problems with the movie, but I do give it three stars for camp value, and for pioneering the path for other two-headed monster movies like my favorite "The Thing With Two Heads" (starring Rosey Grier and Ray Milland). I think it's worth pointing out that the great B-movie critics Harry and Michael Medved had a brilliant insight in their book "Golden Turkey Awards" that "according to the credits, [The Manster] was directed by George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane, but it is not known if this team represented the industry's first two-headed director." Given the schizophrenic cutting between people walking and cars driving in gloriously boring stretches of stock footage and hyperactive overacting and maniacal killing, I think they could be on to something.
The special effects in "The Manster" are awful, even by the standards of the early 1960s, the storyline is stilted and plodding, but it is a good monster movie to watch from a historical perspective if nothing else. I noted that Amazon lists the plot keywords as "Experiment, Monster, Third Eye, Two Headed Monster, [and] Volcano". That pretty much sums it up, and any movie with those plot keywords can't be all bad.
Average customer rating:
- ALPHA DVD VERSION
- sucks
- One of my childhood favorites
- Great Movie
- A Huge Set Back For International Understanding
|
Manster
Starring: Peter Dyneley , Jane Hylton , Tetsu Nakamura , Terri Zimmern , and Norman Van Hawley
Director: Kenneth G. Crane , and George P. Breakston
Manufacturer: Retro Media
ProductGroup: DVD
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- The Woman Eater
ASIN: B00007ELFG
Release Date: 2003-01-28 |
Customer Reviews:
ALPHA DVD VERSION.......2006-10-08
I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE ON A LOCAL TV PROGRAM CALLED 5:00 SHOWTIME IN THE MID-1960's & BEING A YOUNG LAD AT THE TIME FOUND THE MANSTER SOMEWHAT UNSETTLING, MORE ADULT-THEMED & LURID THAN THE USUAL BRIDE OF THE MONSTER/COSMIC MAN STUFF... WHICH IS WHY IT BECAME AN INSTANT FAVORITE!
YEAH IT'S KINDDA HOKEY & CHEAPLY MADE BUT IT'S CERTAINLY ENTERTAINING AND STILL FUN TO WATCH. THE HERO ISN'T REALLY A HERO (AN ALCOHOLIC SCUMBAG PERHAPS ) & THE MAD DOCTOR ISN'T REALLY ALL THAT MAD (HE DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH AN ARMY OF MANSTERS ).WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A LOW-KEY NOIRISH MASTERPIECE OF NIGHTMARE PROPORTIONS...OR JUST A GOOD TIME AT THE SAKI BAR. THE MANSTER STALKS HIS VICTIMS IN JAPANESE BACK-ALLEYS & THE KILLINGS ARE STRIKING & WELL DONE. AND OF COURSE THERE'S THE EYEBALL ON THE SHOULDER SCENE. IT'S ALL SO TERRIFYING & BLEAK YET FASCINATING & INANE. RECOMMENDED.
I VIEWED THE ALPHA DVD & IT PLAYED FINE...NO SKIPPING, NO FREEZING...& THE PICTURE QUALITY WAS VERY GOOD,CLEAR & QUITE WATCHABLE MAKING THIS DVD AN EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN. AS WITH THE FILM ITSELF, THE ALPHA DVD VERSION IS RECOMMENDED.
sucks.......2006-05-19
this has to be one of the worst movies ever made - it makes plan 9 from outer space oscar material and a winner at cannes
One of my childhood favorites.......2006-03-19
I remember watching this flick on TV back in the 60's, and it used to scare the daylights out of me. Especially the scene where he finds the eye embedded in his shoulder. And then, this flick, and many other movies like it, vanished from sight for almost 30 years.
Now, it's back in circulation, and I love it even more, because now, I find it truly HILARIOUS! When the main character, Larry Stanford, gets into his mood swings (caused by that serum that the Doctor injected into him), look out! He goes all-the-way off on everybody, including his boss, and his wife! This movie is worth watching just to see Larry verbally tear down everyone in sight, before he grows the extra head. Speaking of which, for a supposedly cheapie flick, the head-growing scene was superbly done. The sight of that extremely ugly head slowly sprouting up out of Larry's overcoat as he writhed in agony was well done. Now, the inevitable split scene, where the Manster is clutching onto a tree as his two heads slowly seperate into two beings, was also well done (especially when the two heads get far enough apart to actually look at each other....and scream). But c'mon! Larry's body should've been torn apart after that big ol' woolly beast ripped outta him. Nevertheless, this remains one of my all-time favorite horror classics, and I'm glad that it's back.
Great Movie.......2006-03-13
This movie has some of the things that are required for any good movie:
story
casting
location
The main character is a straight talking, hard drinking newpaper reporter who is very down to earth. That's what make it so shocking as he reacts to what happens.
He becomes the victim of a genetic experiment perpetrated by a mad scientist. This causes him to develop what we might call a
'split personality'. One side is his evil nature I guess and the other is his good side.
Don't think that things like this aren't possible as we continue to explore the mysteries of the genetic code.
The Atlanteans used genetic engineering to create 'things' that were only partly human to do all of their manual labor.
This brought the wrath of the gods down on Atlantis as it did to Dr. Suzuki. The god Vulcan terminated all of his experiments.
Recommended further viewing:
The Thing (from another world)
Horror Hotel
The Hideous Sun Demon
The Blob (with Steve McQueen)
The Indestructible Man
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Not Of This Earth (original)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
IT (The Terror From Beyond Space)
Jeff Marzano
A Huge Set Back For International Understanding .......2005-12-19
This cheesy and predictable monster movie from 1962 was a product of international cooperation between the US and Japan. The film is concerned with an evil Japanese scientist who (of course) lives adjacent to a volcano (what with Tokyo having such a high cost of living and all) who injects a reporter with a drug that changes him from a nice guy to a criminally insane two-headed monster. Obeying the movie dictum that all monsters are evil, he goes on a rampage and terrorizes the country.
In the end his wife from New York shows up, confronts him and spends the remainder of the film in hysterics. The climax of the movie is when the Manster takes care of the evil scientist, then splits in half in the most laughable transmogrification scene in history (it happens behind a tree). The reporter becomes normal, and the monkey-demon pushes the love-interest geisha into the volcano. After the reporter pushes the monkey-demon into the volcano, too, the police show up and moralize for a bit (this will remind some viewers of "Bride of the Monster") then explain how the Japanese legal system will have to sort the whole mess out.
There are many problems with the movie, but I do give it three stars for camp value, and for pioneering the path for other two-headed monster movies like my favorite "The Thing With Two Heads" (starring Rosey Grier and Ray Milland). I think it's worth pointing out that the great B-movie critics Harry and Michael Medved had a brilliant insight in their book "Golden Turkey Awards" that "according to the credits, [The Manster] was directed by George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane, but it is not known if this team represented the industry's first two-headed director." Given the schizophrenic cutting between people walking and cars driving in gloriously boring stretches of stock footage and hyperactive overacting and maniacal killing, I think they could be on to something.
The special effects in "The Manster" are awful, even by the standards of the early 1960s, the storyline is stilted and plodding, but it is a good monster movie to watch from a historical perspective if nothing else. I noted that Amazon lists the plot keywords as "Experiment, Monster, Third Eye, Two Headed Monster, [and] Volcano". That pretty much sums it up, and any movie with those plot keywords can't be all bad.
Average customer rating:
- ALPHA DVD VERSION
- sucks
- One of my childhood favorites
- Great Movie
- A Huge Set Back For International Understanding
|
The Manster
Starring: Peter Dyneley , Jane Hylton , Tetsu Nakamura , Terri Zimmern , and Norman Van Hawley
Director: Kenneth G. Crane , and George P. Breakston
Manufacturer: Retromedia
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- The Head
- Day the World Ended/She Creature
- The Hideous Sun Demon
- Cult Classics: Earth vs. the Spider/War of the Colossal Beast
- The Woman Eater
ASIN: B000AYYVBU
Release Date: 2005-10-11 |
Description
American reporter Larry Stanford (Peter Dynely) is sent to Japan to do a story on the experiments of a reclusive scientist. Once at the scientist's mountain laboratory, the scientist decides to use Stanford for an experiment and injects him with a mystery serum, which causes the American to transform into a two-headed monster and go on a violent rampage. A Japanese-U.S. co-production filmed entirely in English, THE MANSTER is a creepy and influential horror oddity.
Customer Reviews:
ALPHA DVD VERSION.......2006-10-08
I FIRST SAW THIS MOVIE ON A LOCAL TV PROGRAM CALLED 5:00 SHOWTIME IN THE MID-1960's & BEING A YOUNG LAD AT THE TIME FOUND THE MANSTER SOMEWHAT UNSETTLING, MORE ADULT-THEMED & LURID THAN THE USUAL BRIDE OF THE MONSTER/COSMIC MAN STUFF... WHICH IS WHY IT BECAME AN INSTANT FAVORITE!
YEAH IT'S KINDDA HOKEY & CHEAPLY MADE BUT IT'S CERTAINLY ENTERTAINING AND STILL FUN TO WATCH. THE HERO ISN'T REALLY A HERO (AN ALCOHOLIC SCUMBAG PERHAPS ) & THE MAD DOCTOR ISN'T REALLY ALL THAT MAD (HE DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD WITH AN ARMY OF MANSTERS ).WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A LOW-KEY NOIRISH MASTERPIECE OF NIGHTMARE PROPORTIONS...OR JUST A GOOD TIME AT THE SAKI BAR. THE MANSTER STALKS HIS VICTIMS IN JAPANESE BACK-ALLEYS & THE KILLINGS ARE STRIKING & WELL DONE. AND OF COURSE THERE'S THE EYEBALL ON THE SHOULDER SCENE. IT'S ALL SO TERRIFYING & BLEAK YET FASCINATING & INANE. RECOMMENDED.
I VIEWED THE ALPHA DVD & IT PLAYED FINE...NO SKIPPING, NO FREEZING...& THE PICTURE QUALITY WAS VERY GOOD,CLEAR & QUITE WATCHABLE MAKING THIS DVD AN EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN. AS WITH THE FILM ITSELF, THE ALPHA DVD VERSION IS RECOMMENDED.
sucks.......2006-05-19
this has to be one of the worst movies ever made - it makes plan 9 from outer space oscar material and a winner at cannes
One of my childhood favorites.......2006-03-19
I remember watching this flick on TV back in the 60's, and it used to scare the daylights out of me. Especially the scene where he finds the eye embedded in his shoulder. And then, this flick, and many other movies like it, vanished from sight for almost 30 years.
Now, it's back in circulation, and I love it even more, because now, I find it truly HILARIOUS! When the main character, Larry Stanford, gets into his mood swings (caused by that serum that the Doctor injected into him), look out! He goes all-the-way off on everybody, including his boss, and his wife! This movie is worth watching just to see Larry verbally tear down everyone in sight, before he grows the extra head. Speaking of which, for a supposedly cheapie flick, the head-growing scene was superbly done. The sight of that extremely ugly head slowly sprouting up out of Larry's overcoat as he writhed in agony was well done. Now, the inevitable split scene, where the Manster is clutching onto a tree as his two heads slowly seperate into two beings, was also well done (especially when the two heads get far enough apart to actually look at each other....and scream). But c'mon! Larry's body should've been torn apart after that big ol' woolly beast ripped outta him. Nevertheless, this remains one of my all-time favorite horror classics, and I'm glad that it's back.
Great Movie.......2006-03-13
This movie has some of the things that are required for any good movie:
story
casting
location
The main character is a straight talking, hard drinking newpaper reporter who is very down to earth. That's what make it so shocking as he reacts to what happens.
He becomes the victim of a genetic experiment perpetrated by a mad scientist. This causes him to develop what we might call a
'split personality'. One side is his evil nature I guess and the other is his good side.
Don't think that things like this aren't possible as we continue to explore the mysteries of the genetic code.
The Atlanteans used genetic engineering to create 'things' that were only partly human to do all of their manual labor.
This brought the wrath of the gods down on Atlantis as it did to Dr. Suzuki. The god Vulcan terminated all of his experiments.
Recommended further viewing:
The Thing (from another world)
Horror Hotel
The Hideous Sun Demon
The Blob (with Steve McQueen)
The Indestructible Man
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Not Of This Earth (original)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
IT (The Terror From Beyond Space)
Jeff Marzano
A Huge Set Back For International Understanding .......2005-12-19
This cheesy and predictable monster movie from 1962 was a product of international cooperation between the US and Japan. The film is concerned with an evil Japanese scientist who (of course) lives adjacent to a volcano (what with Tokyo having such a high cost of living and all) who injects a reporter with a drug that changes him from a nice guy to a criminally insane two-headed monster. Obeying the movie dictum that all monsters are evil, he goes on a rampage and terrorizes the country.
In the end his wife from New York shows up, confronts him and spends the remainder of the film in hysterics. The climax of the movie is when the Manster takes care of the evil scientist, then splits in half in the most laughable transmogrification scene in history (it happens behind a tree). The reporter becomes normal, and the monkey-demon pushes the love-interest geisha into the volcano. After the reporter pushes the monkey-demon into the volcano, too, the police show up and moralize for a bit (this will remind some viewers of "Bride of the Monster") then explain how the Japanese legal system will have to sort the whole mess out.
There are many problems with the movie, but I do give it three stars for camp value, and for pioneering the path for other two-headed monster movies like my favorite "The Thing With Two Heads" (starring Rosey Grier and Ray Milland). I think it's worth pointing out that the great B-movie critics Harry and Michael Medved had a brilliant insight in their book "Golden Turkey Awards" that "according to the credits, [The Manster] was directed by George P. Breakston and Kenneth G. Crane, but it is not known if this team represented the industry's first two-headed director." Given the schizophrenic cutting between people walking and cars driving in gloriously boring stretches of stock footage and hyperactive overacting and maniacal killing, I think they could be on to something.
The special effects in "The Manster" are awful, even by the standards of the early 1960s, the storyline is stilted and plodding, but it is a good monster movie to watch from a historical perspective if nothing else. I noted that Amazon lists the plot keywords as "Experiment, Monster, Third Eye, Two Headed Monster, [and] Volcano". That pretty much sums it up, and any movie with those plot keywords can't be all bad.
Average customer rating:
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The Manster (Digitally Remastered)
Manufacturer: Digiview Productions
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ASIN: B0007LYLHA |
Product Description
An American reporter is sent to interview a Tokyo-based scientist. The scientist goes mad, and while experimenting with mutations, he turns the reporter into a two headed monster called The Manster, half-man and half-monster. The ending is truly bizarre. A MUST SEE!
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