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Monster from Green Hell

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USA  •    •  71m  •    •  Directed by: Kenneth G. Crane.  •  Starring: Jim Davis, Robert Griffin, Joel Fluellen, Barbara Turner, Eduardo Ciannelli, Vladimir Sokoloff, Tim Huntley, LaVerne Jones, Frederic Potler.  •  Music by: Albert Glasser.
      The U.S. government is conducting experiements on the effects of exposure to space radiation by sending animals briefly into orbit. Following a malfunction, one of the rockets stays in space longer than planned, and is lost from the scientists' radar screens. Later, Dr. Brady, one of the rocket scientists, reads a news report about strange occurances in Central Africa. Theorizing that it may be the irradiated test wasp wreaking havoc in the jungle, he organizes an expedistion to investigate.

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Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
Image from: Monster from Green Hell (1957)
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Without a doubt one of the dullest monster movies of the drive-in era, this drags through reels of nonsense where hero Jim Davis and a group of African natives tread through the wilds dealing with savages seemingly prepared to attack them while discovering that the local waters are poison.

Just what is this monster from green hell? A giant wasp, that's what, with eyes that somehow look like truck headlights and crab like claws that strangle their victims allegedly before stinging them. When they find a nest of these things, they attempt to destroy them with grenades and a purposely exploded volcano. It sounds fun on the page, but the pacing is outlandishly slow and the acting barely noticable. Worth a look for sci-fihorror die-hards, but even the most patient viewer will be clamoring for the end.


Review by mark.waltz from the Internet Movie Database.