My opinion of this improves every time I watch it. This is really one of the best of the “B’s”!
Most of the acting is pretty solid, and it has a great little mix of the serious and the absurd that makes it a fun drive-in style B-movie.
The Giant Gila Monster
Only Hell could breed such an enormous beast... Only God could destroy it!
Rating
2.5 (1)
Release Date
6/25/1959Runtime
74 minsGenres
Overview
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
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A gleefully low-budget creature feature where an enormous lizard terrorizes a small Texas town with refreshingly straightforward monster-movie logic. It's campy and earnestly made, delivering the simple pleasures of watching ordinary people scramble against an impossible threat.
Mood
Dread-soakedAbsurdTense
Themes
Survival
Tone
Matter-of-fact
Pacing
Steady
Look
NaturalisticPractical effects
Structure
Linear
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