Amazon.com: Navy Vs. the Night Monster [VHS] : Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley, Billy Gray, Bobby Van, Pamela Mason, Walter Sande, Edward Faulkner, Phillip Terry, David Brandon, Kaye Elhardt, Taggart Casey, Russ Bender, Arthur C. Pierce, Jon Hall, Michael A. Hoey, George Edwards, Jack Broder, Arthur C. Pierce, Michael A. Hoey, Murray Leinster: Movies & TV
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If you are looking for bad movies, this one will exceed your expectations in every department: directing, acting, writing, photography, film editing, color processing, special effects, music, sound and any other category you can mention. The script is unforgivably rotten. God help us if the real members of our US Navy are as clueless and inept as the ones depicted here. They are rendered totally helpless by a bunch of acid-oozing, semi-mobile tree ferns that lamely flap their fronds, although with fatal results for several people and a small dog. In fact, for most of the film, the Navy nit-wits cannot figure out the source of the problem, even though they have just flown back the mysteriously exotic specimens from Antarctica and people and penguins have vanished from the airplane. They stand by helplessly holding flashlights while their colleagues get eaten by the plants. Later we see fighter planes strafing what look like garbage cans on the march. The movie makes many truly humiliating attempts at humor -- and Mamie van Doren's sweater reveals more about bygone fashions than her alleged sex appeal for adolescent boys. Meanwhile, the print offered by Amazon has faded into blurry shades of green and orange, and the widescreen image has been savagely cropped. I watched it video streaming and found it wondrously stupid. Accompany your viewing with glasses of Chateaux de Coca-Cola '2013 and microwaved Velveeta nachos.
At first I could have burned this one, but I watched it a few more times to give it a chance and it grows on you. People begin to go missing on a Navy base after a transport from Antarctica crashes at the base. Just remember it for what it is and you might enjoy it too. I'm not going to tell you who the killer is, but don't stand out under any trees when you watch it.
Where to start? Wooden acting, starting with Mamie Van Doren, and going downhill from there. Cardboard cutouts would give us better acting. Some Roger Corman films are classic. This one is just assic.
