Monster a Go-Go! (1965)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Ten years before unleashing that seventh layer of hell known as THE GREAT SPIDER INVASION, Bill Rebane along with fellow Z-movie auteur Herschell Gordon Lewis directed this miserable piece of cow dung.The sorry mess immediately started when Rebane ran out of money while making the film. Gee, no wonder he couldn't afford useful filmmaking tools like boom mikes or a decent script that wasn't written on cocktail napkins. And that's when The Godfather of Gore came along.While planning a not-so-important double feature, Lewis bought MONSTER A-GO GO from the desperate director. Under the hands of good old H.G. Lewis, extra scenes and dialog were added which created an avalanche of bad continuity. The result was a weird, incoherent disaster-piece of minor proportions. The only good thing about the movie was seeing the monster, but I didn't see any go-go dancers. At least that could have been interesting to watch! I don't mind a bad movie now or then, but watching the film with the MST3K commentary didn't help matters at all. I would rather watch FINAL JUSTICE or SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS ten times in a row than sit through MONSTER A-GO GO any day of the week.

Bill Rebane, the only director to come out of Wisconsin. Unfortunately, in this case, it's not a good thing. Over the years, Mr. Rebane has made some pretty crappy movies. At least two appeared on the long-running MST3K TV show. I have personally tracked down a few additional ones that wandered onto those multi-DVD packs. Anyway, MONSTER A-GO-GO is easily the worst he ever made. Like any director (good or bad) there are certain trademarks. For Bill Rebane, they would include: lackluster acting, poor dubbing, dialogue that's badly recorded, long boring stretches of tedious conversation, scenes where nothing happens, and humor that falls flat. In MAGG, we can see the young director's unbridled and blossoming (haha) talent. A spacecraft returning to Earth explodes (I think), the astronaut named Douglas grows into a giant and a scientist has to give him injections to keep him normal size. Unfortunately, due to bad timing on the part of the scientist, Douglas escapes. Mind you, a lot of what I just described was described to us by a narrator. Yes, it's another one of those movies like THE CREEPING TERROR where I think they lost parts of the dialogue and added in the narration to keep the audience informed. A lot of the crucial scenes that I just described in fact either happen off-screen or are so poorly shot as to make absolutely no sense at all. Near the halfway point, you are guaranteed to lose interest and possibly consciousness. The only good scene is a short one between a woman whose car broke down and a truck driver. Their scene is brilliant and their banter is witty. As a matter of fact, it could easily have been a scene from IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. Sadly, it was plopped down in the middle of MAGG! This is easily one of the worst movies ever made. It has no redeeming qualities at all. Oh and the ending will have you screaming and pulling out your hair. Since the budget ran out, Rebane chose to just end the movie. There is one other good thing about it however: it's the cure to insomnia!!!

Not much to say about this movie really because it's all such nonsense to watch. Really no idea what the story was all supposed to be about, since it got told in such a messy and unimaginative way.It's really like the film-makers themselves also had no idea what they were shooting and what story they were following and trying to tell. It's all over the place with its story and characters, that randomly pop-up and also do and say lots of random stuff, which most of the time don't really connect with the rest of the movie. The movie doesn't even have a real main lead in it! At least not that I could tell off...Suppose this movie is supposed to be one of those typical '60's science-fiction/horror crossovers, only thing with it is that the movie has neither got any good science-fiction or horror in it. There is a monster in this but what does he do? Absolutely nothing and he's in about 3 scene's or so, anyway. Really, there is just not excitement or any good mystery in this movie.It's obviously a very low budget production, since it has clearly no production value to it and stars a whole bunch of people you have never seen or heard off before. And it's not hard to see why none of them ever had a gloaming career in the industry, after watching them in this movie.I take more pleasure in watching an Ed Wood movie of this type really! This movie is just so bad that it isn't even funny or fun to watch.2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

For my first review, why not start with the worst? I've seen Manos and I've seen The Beast of Yucca Flats and I've seen 10 minutes of Superbabies 2 but this movie tops...uh...truly lives at the bottom of the barrel.Monster a-Go Go is one of those movies that just sits and dares you to fall asleep and I just couldn't resist so I missed 10 minutes but I am sure that I did not miss anything. Luckily, I did wake up to see the few seconds of random go-go dancing. Damn, I wish there was more go-go dancing because that was the best part of the film. And…then I went back to sleep because I couldn't handle the excitement! Ten minutes later I woke up to see two people I didn't care about talking at a restaurant. Okay, I suppose that I should discuss some plot points. Apparently, a spacecraft crashed and one of the pilots is presumed dead. Unfortunately, he is not dead and we have to proceed with the rest of the movie. Instead he has turned into a monster who we (very) occasionally see and we are told that he has done some bad things. Later, we meet a scientist in a white coat (scientists always look the same in z-grade movies) who drones on about the horrors of the monster. So, the authorities search for the monster only to discover the big plot twist.There never really was a monster. That's it! That's the plot twist! It has to be one of the biggest "screw the audience" moments in cinematic history. If you want more information, read some of the other reviews.In short, if you are having trouble sleeping this is the perfect movie. If you are looking for a good date movie, obviously you are very lost.