Monster a-Go Go (1965)

A complete waste of celluloid, 7 June 2007

If you've read the background of Monster A Go-Go then you know that the movie almost didn't exist. Hackmeister Bill Rebane started filming the movie in 1961. A shortage of cash forced him to shelf the project. A few years later, fellow B-filmmaker Herschel Gordon Lewis was looking for a film to complete a double-bill and bought Rebane's unfinished movie. Whether he added new material or only re-edited what was already there is up to conjecture, but the result was Monster A Go-Go.

I've seen a slew of bad movies in my life, but only a very few of them are as bad as Monster A Go-Go. Over the years, I've rated several films a 1/10 (Laserblast, Midnight, and Invasion of the Star Creatures for example), but this one joins that special fraternity of films that make-up the worst of the worst. Monster A Go-Go takes a place beside the likes of Prime Evil and The Starfighters as a complete waste of celluloid. Monster A Go-Go is a total bore and features nothing that remotely resembles entertainment. When a film loses a viewer's interest 30 seconds into its runtime, you know you're in trouble. And if possible, Monster A Go-Go takes this incredibly putrid start and builds on it. The movie actually becomes increasingly pointless and dull throughout its 70 minutes as it limps toward one of the worst endings ever put to a movie. The movie doesn't really end as much as Rebane or Lewis or whoever just stopped filming. If only they would have stopped filming about 70 minutes earlier.

This was another MST3K viewing for me. Normally, I get a kick out of MST3K regardless of how bad the movie is. But Monster A Go-Go is just so bad that it really puts a drag on everything. I give them credit for attempting to make the movie in any way worthwhile, but it seems to have been an impossible task. I give this episode of MST3K a 2/5 - find another episode to add to the top of your "to see" list.

1/10