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Track of the Moon Beast

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TRACK OF THE MOON BEAST was filmed in 1972 but four years passed before the film found a distributor. There is a reason for that. Now and then a film is bad but amusing or has a strangely goofy charm, with such films as PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE and ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN cases in point--but most of the time a bad movie is simply that: a bad movie. I fail to see how any one, including the cast crew, ever extracted a nano-second of enjoyment from it.

Briefly, the story concerns archeologist Paul (Chase Cordell, whose chief qualification for the role seems to be that he looks good without a shirt) who hooks up with photographer Kathy (Leigh Drake, whose talent consists miniskirts.) They go for a walk during a meteor show. When a meteor strikes nearby, a tiny bit of rock becomes imbedded in Paul's head. Later, when he goes to a NASA museum, the proximity of a moon rock causes the bit of rock to react in a way that makes Paul turn into a badly costumed monster every full moon night.

I could spend several paragraphs listing what is bad about this movie. Rather than do that, I will list what is good: nothing. Absolutely nothing. And it isn't bad-movie-funny, or bad-movie-goofy, or bad-movie loveable, or bad-movie entertaining at any point or for any reason. MOON BEAST is best seen in full eclipse with the sound turned off.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

Concept is familiar -- man turns into a monster, not too different from old werewolf films. But this film has no appeal whatsoever. The writing and the acting are so wooden that it is impossible to care about any of the characters. It's not scary, it's not funny, it's just a boring waste of time. How did something this amateurish ever get OK'd and produced? (On the other hand, it is kind of fun to think about a double-feature pairing "Track of the Moon Beast" with 1959's similarly plotted but not as awful "The Hideous Sun Demon.")