Superbeast (1972)

Best movie of this year hands down!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

I can't tell you just how awful this film was, words can barely describe the shear incompetence of the filmmakers here.The long and short of it is that a man escapes from the jungles in the Philippines, goes on a rampage on an airplane, and during his rather graphic autopsy, they find something troubling.A cute doctor travels to where he came from, only to find herself going over a waterfall after long and pointless canoing scenes. I should point out we are going to see a lot of that here, where about 30 minutes of plot points are stretched out over 90 minutes of film.She meets a mad scientist who is trying to cure violent behavior with drugs, because it was the 1970's and people thought drugs could cure everything, and his buddy the rich hunter who hunts down all his failed experiments. Except the lead actress's affect is so flat you can't really tell what her reaction is to any of this. She objects, I guess.The movie ends in some odd scene where the scientist is tricked into drinking his own formula and regresses into a cave man and goes on a pointless rampage because they had another 30 minutes to fill.Ugh. Avoid at all costs.

You know the score: Low budget 70's flick, tight jeans, side burns, bad hair, flute music with tones of echo. But there was none of the ordinary stuff that makes us laugh or titillates us due to its overt cheesiness. This one is just plain bad!! This is strictly a PG fair: no nudity, very little violence, no gore, no bad language, so why it was given an R-rating is beyond me. The lead actress, Antoinette Bower, has been in other 70's sexploitation/prison chick flicks before, but is the main character of this movie, how or why she got this part is a total mystery. She looks to be around 40 in this flick, wears the same white jeans during the entire duration in the jungle that never get soiled. She has zero expression in the entire film- no laughing, smiling, reactions of any type even when she is told she is to be killed or discovers that the doctor on this jungle island invented a serum that makes humans revert to a "prehistoric" state. The scenery and music are surprisingly effective in this movie, but the rest plods so slowly the whole story could have been told in 10 minutes- we are talking slooooowww.

I watched this movie, but it certainly did not make a lasting impression other than that it was rather boring. I think I sort of drifted in and out of sleep while watching it. Saw it on Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs and he warned that this movie was going to be bad. Bad really is an understatement here, it is not even in the so bad it is good category like so many Italian zombie flicks like "Hell of the Living Dead" or "After Death". The movie's premise is sort of similar to an "Island of Dr. Moreau" which I never cared for that format of movie anyways. To make matters worse, this movie is the worst I have ever seen of that particular format. Add to that, the fact virtually nothing went on in the entire movie and it is not very memorable to boot. I seem to recall the so called superbeast of the title making an appearance near the end of the movie. Suffice to say, I do believe it was a rather brief appearance and not anything that added anything to this yawn fest. The only thing good about the whole movie was the breaks when Joe Bob would make fun of how bad the movie was. I do not even think the gang of Mystery Science Theater 3000 could have made this one tolerable to watch.

An unbelievably awful movie, potentially the worst thing I have ever seen. I can´t believe I actually took the time to comment on it. Perhaps I am in a state of shock. I would advise potential viewers to give this a definite miss.