After the great reception we got from last week's movie, "Robot Monster", we decided to push our luck and try out another 1950s sci-fi horror fim: "The Giant Claw" apparently also known as "The Mark Of The Claw" which is slightly more menacing. While it wasn't quite the laugh fest that "Robot Monster" was there was still some comedy to be had as well as some really terrible conventions.
In a voice over that never fully stops a bunch of characters who work in engineering are introduced but the only two you need to know are the main character Mitch MacAfee, an aeronatical engineer, and the female mathmatician who he sexually assaults on a plane. Mitch sees an unidentified flying object and when people go out to investigate, including himself and the mathmatician, they are struck down by something. The two crash land in Canada and meet a French dude who thinks it's a monster in the sky. Then they go back to New York and, later, DC, convincing the military to go out to investigate and discover the truth: it's a giant chicken made of alien material that they think is antimatter. Why this thing didn't explode immediately when coming in contact with, oh say, air, is not explained. Considering the protagonists are an engineer and a mathmatician, they are clearly ill-equipted to solve this issue of extra-terrestrial biology and yet somehow they manage to make some staggering observations of the creature (that is gets energy from food and might reproduce) and then decide to kill it an antimatter destroyer which they are somehow able to make. The world is safe and Thanksgiving dinner has come early this year.
This movie has a couple really strange lines, a very bad puppet, blatant "King Kong" ripoff scenes, and some really hammy acting so it was a pretty enjoyable watch. However, we did start off the night with the best music video ever and ended it by introducing Keith and Grandma to the "Trololo" guy (and "Trolling Sauruman") so, it had some tough acts to compete with in terms of the best thing we watched that night.
Quotes:
"Get me the Pentagon . . . very fast."
"It has no element recognizable by man. Finding out was expensive."
". . . God foresaken antimatter galaxy."
"A nest? Eggs. More birds!"
"In a fantastic orgy of the destruction that the world has never seen!"
Adam's Grandma's Review: "No."
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