The Hideous Sun Demon
by Robert Clarke
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Actor: Bill Currie (II), Del Courtney, Richard Cassarino, Robert Clarke, Xandra ConklingDirector: Robert Clarke
Primary Contributor: Robert Clarke
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Hideous Sun Demon
Movie Review: b-monster flick that has its good points
Summary: 3 Stars
As a connoisseur of 50's scifi monsters - if not invading aliens, they almost invariably involve radiation, mutation, and murder - this is a pretty good one. Rubber suit and all, Sun Demon has good characters, from the affected scientist-turned-beast to his girls. He struggles to do the right thing, but, well, fails. Then it gets gruesome, before becoming a chase. As a kid, I remember wanting to see this, but couldn't because "it was playing in a bad neighborhood", so now I have finally realized my desire (in a fit of insomnia over the internet). OK, it's a formula, but at least it is well done.
Recommended for the cognoscenti.
Summary of The Hideous Sun Demon
Screen star Robert Clarke, legendary science fiction leading man of the 1950s, produced, directed and starred in this Atomic Age chiller about a scientist that turns into a hideous prehistoric creature when exposed to the sun's deadly rays. This is it! The original cult classic, filled with tense radioactive atmosphere, as the Sun Demon stalks his prey while his primordial mating urges go berserk! An excellent modern-day horror screamer filled with murder, monsters, radioactive isotopes and a sizzling blonde babe with gravity-defying assets. Bring your sunglasses and tanning oil because "The Hideous Sun Demon" is on the loose!The Hideous Sun Demon is almost too wonderful to be believed. Scientist Dr. Gilbert McKenna drops his sample--oops!--of "a new isotope that has never existed in nature before" and consequently receives a massive dose of radiation. As so often happens in these cases, the results are gruesome and tragic--whenever he is exposed to sunlight Gil turns into a lizard man, driven to kill. "You mean a human being could evolve backwards through time?" asks the plucky Miss Lansing. Alas, her question can only be answered with a yes. Well, a yes and some hilarious "scientific" proof. Even though he becomes a murderous reptile at the pull of a curtain, some obscure legal statute says that Gil can't be kept in the hospital against his will. Full of whiskey and self-pity, he heads out on his own, a time bomb ready to go off the minute he runs out of zinc oxide. The pleasures of The Hideous Sun Demon are many: rubber lizard suits, headlines reading "Weird Killer Still at Large," a lounge singer named Trudy with an unusually lopsided piano playing style, and day-for-night sequences in which the night is so bright that one cannot see the actors' faces. Truly, a movie that must be experienced in DVD. --Ali Davis
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