Reptilicus

1963 "Invincible...Indestructible! What was this awesome BEAST born 50 million years out of time?"
3.6| 1h32m| NR| en| More Info
Released: 20 January 1963 Released
Producted By: American International Pictures
Country: United States of America
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A portion of the tail of a prehistoric reptile is discovered in Denmark. It regenerates into the entire reptile, which proceeds to destroy buildings and property and generally make a nuisance of itself. It can fly, swim, and walk, and has impenetrable scales, which makes it difficult to kill.

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Director

Poul Bang, Sidney W. Pink

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American International Pictures

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Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny
Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
beetle-259-554148 Reptilicus, Denmark's sole offering to the vast world of giant monster movies!!!This movie had the potential to be a frightening movie as our monster could lead to a disaster of GLOBAL proportions! THe reason for this is because Reptilicus can regenerate in a way that if his arm is blown off, not only will he grow a new arm the arm will grow a new Reptilicus!! This means that if Reptilicus is blown to bits, each individual piece will actually grow into a new monster!Reptilicus cmes to be when a section of his tail is found frozen in the mountains and is brought a science lab in Copenhagen. Various screw-ups including a heavily-fatigued scientist, a dim-witted lab assistant, and a power failure cause the tail to thaw out and grow into our titular monster!The scene where Reptilicus breaks out of the lab is extremely suspenseful and kept me on edge due to it happening during a raging thunderstorm!The monster, however, isn't that great.... the footage of him is very grainy and seems to move at 7 frames per second. There is a scene where he eats a farmer and it's a hilariously bad blue-screen effect.Definitely watch this! It's on Netflix by way of the revival series of Mystery Science Theater 3000 so as long as you don't mind a man and two robots riffing on the movie while you watch, give it a go!
Diana Strange The only real thing I can fault this movie for is everything relating to the monster, and sadly this is a monster movie. The acting was alright and the plot was slightly unique. Sadly even as monster movies go though this monster is very.... lets say aged. The monster is purely a set of different puppets that have no movement. In a single scene they show a leg moving to stomp a car but past that you just see a crude puppet being dragged behind buildings, in forests, or submerged in water. I was impressed at the scale of WW2 props used when fighting the monster, I just wish that effort was redirecting into the actual monster. At first it was so bad it was good but over time it just became painful to watch. Even the viewer is relieved when the monster is finally taken down just so we don't have to see it "act".
O2D At first glance this looks like it could be a great movie.If you caught five minutes of it, you would probably want to see the whole thing.Upon further inspection you would see this movie is actually a bunch of clichés neatly wrapped up in a turd.The set up is completely unbelievable.Copper miners are drilling in Lapland and find pieces of bloody flesh on the drill bit.Why are copper miners drilling?Where is Lapland?No one knows the answers to those questions.Since these miners have no real interest in doing their jobs, they immediately stop and try to find out what they have drilled into.From this point on it goes from just plain old stupid to full on confusing.They find part of a giant reptile tail and take it to Denmark.Of course almost no one in Denmark has an accent.If there's one thing I have learned from old b-movies, it's that Europe is full of Americans and this movie continues to prove that.They give the tail to a scientist who works at the aquarium yet also taps on the tank glass.Tapping on the glass is a clear sign that nobody involved in the movie has a clue but that's not important.The scientists decide that the tail will regenerate into a new animal if it's not kept frozen so they just put it in a special cold room and don't worry about it.You know where that's going and you know the scientists will have guns, because it's all been done before.Plus they hire a dumb hillbilly to guard the tail.The hillbilly is supposed to be whimsical and we know this because of the farcical music they play during his boring exploits.Did I mention that the miner who was running the drill in Lapland is now in Denmark commanding the US and Danish armies?Because that's a thing.And to top it all off, Reptilicus is a giant snake with a dragon head and wings.Of course it doesn't fly and can actually barely move at all.The one redeeming quality of the movie is that Reptilicus spits green slime.Even though it's clearly added in later and he can't really control it, the slime is still the best part of the movie.Don't waste your time with this.
Tom Downing I actually saw this movie in the theater when it was first released. The movie was so bad, and so badly marketed, that promo stills in the theater lobby never appeared in the film! The "not so" special effects are as bad as they can get, the acting is universally poor (especially Carl Ottosen as the American General Grayson) and portions of the movie involving the monster are filmed in different stages of focus/clarity. However, the scenes involving the cast of live characters are of high quality stock and have survived quite well over the past 50+ years. It is a film that will give you a few laughs and may be a way spend a rainy Saturday afternoon. The best (and maybe the only way) to watch Reptilicus is via MST3K!