Arguably the finest half man / half jellyfish movie ever made...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

"Sting Of Death," from director William Grefe...who obviously learned a thing or two from Ed Wood.



http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OCKX/qid%3D1086236730/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-6221835-8244957

"Sting of Death (1966, 80 min.) - A mad marine biologist sneaks off to an underwater lab, transforms himself into a mutant half-man, half-jellyfish, and attacks college kids with his Sting of Death! Why? Because he's in love! Really. And with his giant bulbous head, the jellyfish man may very well be the single most hilarious-looking movie monster yet committed to film."

I watched this today, and it's a must-have for bad movie aficionados everywhere. Neil Sedaka makes a guest appearance, singing his non-hit "Do The Jellyfish"...

"Wella, I'm saying fella
Forget your Cinderella
And do the jella
It's really swella
To do the jalla jellyfish"

Lyrics come in the DVD case so you can sing along.

The monster is a guy in a wet suit with a clear plastic bag over his head. Filmed in the Florida Everglades in 1966, with a lot of screaming and many gratuitous shots of go-go dancing bikini clad 60s actresses.

The other flick is a really, really bad mummy movie. Also filmed in Florida by the same director a year later. Highlights include two of the actors attacked by a "great white shark" in what must be 6-foot deep swamp water. Also, a man is bitten to death by a giant rubber snake. It bites him about four or five times before he dies...must have been running low on rubber snake venom. Bikini go-go dancing in this one too. Two frat boys and their girlfriends decide, for no apparent reason, to do the "twist" in the middle of a swamp. This somehow awakens the mummy and...never mind.

:toast:

[donco6]

1. So, pray tell, why is there a mummy in a swamp?

I just can't even think of a connection that makes that work!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. I'm going to let the "back of the box" explain this one...

..."Four archeology students deep in the Florida Everglades activate the "Death Curse of Tartu" when they start making out and go-go dancing on an ancient Indian burial ground. This so annoys Tartu, a Seminole witch doctor dead some 400 years, that his decomposed corpse comes to life, changes into a variety of animals, and promptly starts killing everyone. But when the students' teacher finds Tartu's resting place and tries to destroy his remains, Tartu climbs out of his casket, turns into his young pre-rotted self, and goes chasing after the leading lady."

...I don't know if that helped or made it worse...

:evilgrin:

[Kali]

3. way cool

I'm ordering them right now!