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4.0 out of 5 stars "What Is The Ultimate Science Phenomenon? Truth.", June 7, 2008

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creature of Destruction (DVD)

When I started watching "Creature of Destruction" I didn't pay particular attention to the credits. After about two minutes of viewing, I thought that it had to be the work of Larry Buchanan, as it has a distinctly Zontaresque feel to it. Sure enough, I went back and watched the credits, and I knew I was in for a rough ride as soon as it revealed "Azalea Pictures Presents"..."Produced and Directed by Larry Buchanan".

This is the follow up to "Zontar: The Thing From Venus" and features an even more ridiculous looking monster, if you can believe that. Despite the typical Buchanan touches, the film has a decidedly "Horror of Party Beach" predisposition (especially in the soundtrack department; note the song about "Batman" particularly); it's like combining two great sci-fi institutions into one great camp classic.

The plot follows Dr. Basso in the role of the evil mind-control villain (i.e. the "Zontar" role), who predicts menacing things in the future. His lovely assistant is under his spell but desperately wants to break free; during the course of the film she regresses to previous lives and undergoes, among other indignities, a ludicrous psychic cross-examination in which she has to answer an endless string of trivia questions about seventeenth century English society. Ultimately it is revealed that the monster is involved with Basso, but I won't spoil the actual relationship, as it is priceless.

The film has typical Buchanan blunders such as lifting the soundtrack from "Zontar" and reusing it at inappropriate times, frequently drowning out the dialogue; numerous day versus night issues within a scene giving it a rather timeless quality (shades of "Plan 9"); and a montage at the end that seems to have also been lifted directly from "Zontar" with slightly different casting. Don't miss the amusingly contrived Monster-Hypnotist Murder-Suicide (really), or the horrendous beach dancing either. Fans of Buchanan will undoubtedly note the appearance of Neil Fletcher as the cranky businessman Sam Crane; he was, of course, General Matt Young in "Zontar".

If you like hokey but fun sci-fi movies from the 1960's, this one is hard to beat: it has everything: a ridiculous monster, a damsel in distress, an evil villain, terrible special effects, music, dancing, and more! For fans of the genre, I highly recommend "Creature of Destruction", another masterwork from the mind of Larry Buchanan!

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Subject, April 3, 2006

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Jeff Marzano (Essex Junction, VT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creature of Destruction (DVD)

This movie is about someone who hypnotically regresses a woman so she goes back and remembers not only her past lives but also her first physical existence.

And this first existence was not as a human being. It was some sort of sea creature.

Somehow the creature emerges from her subconscious mind and starts killing people.

Who knows whether or not something like this would be possible. Maybe it would be.

There's a lot of interest these days in past life regression.

For a very weird movie about hypnosis check out 'The Hypnotic Eye'.

Jeff Marzano

I Was a Teenage Werewolf

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