Product Details

• Actors: Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Bob Steele, Morris Ankrum, Buddy Baer
• Directors: Richard E. Cunha
• Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: October 24, 2000
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004Y7HP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,664 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Giant from the Unknown" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Horror
Rating: NR
Release Date: 14-AUG-2002
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars HARMLESS 50'S SCI-FI OPUS..., January 3, 2004

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Mark Norvell (HOUSTON) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant from the Unknown (DVD)

I sought this disc out to see if it was as bad as everything I'd read about it. It's bad but not THAT bad. I saw no reason to rip it to shreds as one reviewer so painstakingly did. Richard E.Cunha made some bad horror films but this isn't the worst I've seen. It sports fairly decent location shooting for one thing and some of the most unintentionally funny dialogue and situations you could want in a low budget "monster" movie. The "Giant" of the title isn't really a monster but a revived Spanish Conquistador who's just really big, really dirty and mad as hell. Held responsible for murders and other assorted mayhem that occured BEFORE he was revived (as the above mentioned reviewer correctly noted), he commences his rampage by stomping around with an axe. There's an elderly archaeologist, his chirpy daughter, a jerk sheriff and the hero---a local guy who keeps getting blamed for everything by the sheriff. The story takes place in a mountain community where everyone is upset by these brutal murders---yet one young woman is left ALONE by her brother in their remote cabin and meets the "Giant" when she goes to the well for water. Then the dippy heroine is left alone at a campsite I don't know how many times while the men go off in the mountains. Yep, the "Giant"s lurking around in the bushes. He also throws rocks at people. So you see, this is a goofy, goofy film. It's dumb and silly but I liked it because it's really watchable. It's a pristine example of 50's b&w drive-in fare well preserved on disc by Wade Williams and Image in a crisp, clean print. Rather enjoyable if it's not taken so seriously.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "It's cold dead stare is watching...YOU", March 23, 2004

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Brian C. Lawton (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant from the Unknown (DVD)

So says the coming attraction trailer on this chiller theatre opus
Terror strikes a small mid-west community in the form of a spanish
7-ft tall conquistdator reawakened from a suspended animated sleep by a freak lightning bolt.

This low budget 1958 film is more memorable for sporting the score
of the great Albert Glasser than anything. This image dvd is great
for this type Saturday matinee stuff. The picture is the clearest
print that I've seen of this film in quite sometime of course that
special feature trailer which makes it complete.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 50's HORROR CLASSIC!!, April 2, 2003

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Kevin P. Coon (Twin Falls, Idaho USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Giant from the Unknown (DVD)

I have always been very fond of this film. A giant Spanish Conquistador comes back to life and goes on a rampage in this Richard Cunha sci-fi gem. I love everyone in the cast especially Morris Ankrum and the always lovely Sally Forest. The small town setting adds a wonderful charm to this picture. 5 stars all the way!!!