ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

A fun little semi-amateur movie with professional stop motion animation by the talented David Allen, a man so dedicated to stop motion animation that he's contributed brilliant work to such projects as "Equinox", the X-rated "Flesh Gordon", and TV commercials such as the Pillsbury Poppin' Fresh Dough Boy.

"The Crater Lake Monster" doesn't offer many scenes of its flippered dinosaur, but there's an interesting confrontation between monster and a snow plow. Both the plot and the look of the film are likeable throwbacks to low-budget sci-fi films from the 1950s like "The Werewolf" and "Invasion of the Saucer Men".

Naturally the sheriff of the small town doesn't believe the reports that a frozen dinosaur from the bottom of the lake has been revived by radioactivity from the meteorite which originally formed the lake-crater.

Try to ignore the flaws and appreciate the fact that the film makers just wanted a good old fashioned monster with plenty of roar and no gore.

Directed by William R. Stromberg from a screenplay which he co-authored with Richard Cardella, who also appears in the cast. Also starring Kacey Cobb, Glenn Roberts, and Mark Siegel.








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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Here's the entire movie so you scan past 90% of it and get to the final — the only part worth watch.

_____________ The Crater Lake Monster (1977)

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)