MOVIE CHAT : GodMonster Of Indian Flats

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GodMonster of Indian Flats, 1973.


Perhaps the geekier & more knowledgable movie fans among you would pick the cheesiest monster ever created for a film as the rolled-up-rug thing from THE CREEPING TERROR (1964) or the retarded bird-puppet from THE GIANT CLAW (1957). Well, you could be right, but allow me to nominate another contestant for the sweepstakes; The 9-foot mutant sheep better known as THE GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS. Did I say "sheep"? Well, that's what we're told, though he looks far more like a giant zombiefied sloth or Snuffalufagus from Sesame Street with the mange. Fredric Hobbs wrote, produced, directed, and even made the costume for the Godmonster - and my guess is that he found all materials needed in a thrift store.

A rich oil-baron landowner (played by Russ Meyer regular Stuart Lancaster) wants to keep his little Nevada desert town of Comstock faithful to the Old-West as a means of keeping tourists visiting & making him a rich(er) man. Lancaster insures his racist dictator-like power over the town with a group of good ol' boy gunslinging thugs on horseback he calls "the 601". This is all while a rich black East Coast businessman is trying to purchase land in town to reinvigorate the lost silver-mining operations, which put the town of Comstock on the map in the first place.

Meanwhile across town, a 'fetus-creature' is found in a sheeps pen (to me, it looks like a breathing bloody cow-pie) just barely clinging to life and is brought to Dr. Clemen's (E. Kerrigan Prescott) laboratory where it's stabilized within an incubator. The creature grows rapidly into a mangy wool-coat covered thing with an obvious papier-mache head and a curious T-Rex shaped body replete with perhaps the BIGGEST ASS on any creature in movie monster history.

The 'Godmonster' is inadvertently set free when "The 601" teargas Dr. Clemens lab searching for the black East Coast businessman they were about to lynch (escaped & hiding on the scientists property). Now free, the creature first dances around with a deranged hippy-chick then ruins a little girls picnic as it waddles up & scares them. Later, a gas station is blown up due to a panic-stricken pump-jockey throwing a lit butane torch at a puddle of gasoline, screaming like a child at the sight of the Godmonsters huge buttocks. The creature continues to 'run' loose, though how this actually transpires is a total mystery, since the shambling mammal seems barely able to stand, much less walk, and has limp deformed arms that sway from side to side in a very unmenacing manner. He also barfs yellow smoke when feeling upset.

Eventually the Lamb from Hell is lassoed by the '601' cowboy possee on horseback, and brought forth before the simple townsfolk in a cage mounted precariously on the back of a pick-up truck, which is parked precariously near a cliff in the town dump where everybody gathers. Evil oil-baron Lancaster announces that he'll make all the tourist-based moolah off of "the damaged mongoloid beast" as "The 8th Wonder of the World!". The crowd likes his idea and rhubarbs its approval. Then someone yells "He sold us all out! He's lying!" and the pleased crowd turns inexplicably violent & nasty in a heartbeat.

The ensuing 'riot' is portrayed in a way that can only be described as a mixture of the moronic and the surreal. First there are dubbed-in voices of monotone children repeating "...Lies. Lies. Lies..." as the townsfolk start beating EACH-OTHER up. Then people start pointing at the helpless Godmonster tied-up in the cage and scream "Kill It!" before pelting it with garbage and throwing trash down the side the hill, only to race down the same hill at top speed themselves moments later. I don't know if that's how people riot in Nevada, but it's sure not how I'd go about doing it!

The poor fat-assed Godmonster is killed in the stupid garbage throwing incident, as are several Old-West gunslingers who appear out of nowhere. Lancaster is left to himself on the podium in the garbageheap, cackling maniacally, howling "Time is the eternal judge of events!!" (well, DUH) before the camera pulls back to some grazing sheep with obvious human voices that say "BAAA".

[rocketmaster]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Whew...I haven't laughed that hard in months!
You probably put more effort into your review than they put into their script.
Good one. Thanks.

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[Tard]

MST3K needed to buy rights for decades, rather than only a couple years.

But don't know if those guys knew about 'God Monster' while they ran...(?)

<font color="#339900" size="1">[ November 22, 2003 12:46 AM: Message edited by: reved ]</font>

[rocketmaster]

I found a still for ya...
"rabid goat attacking naked child"

[Tard]

that poor cherub... [img]frown.gif[/img]

[kingfozzy]

This sounds like a movie that I NEED to see right now. [img]wink.gif[/img] hahaha

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http://www.somethingweird.com/frameindex.htm

You'll have to type the title into their search fields, as they use frames which can't link to specific pages, like Associated Press.