The Hideous Sun Demon

The Hideous Sun Demon
by Robert Clarke

The Hideous Sun Demon
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Actor: Bill Currie (II), Del Courtney, Richard Cassarino, Robert Clarke, Xandra Conkling
Director: Robert Clarke
Brand: Image Entertainment
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: Amusing hokum
Summary: 4 Stars

I expected this to be far worse than it was. (Possibly Nan Peterson has something to do with the fact that I actually liked watching this.)

But like most 50's sci fi, don't go in hoping for logic, good special effects (the monster provoked a laugh every time he was on camera), scientific accuracy (this is about as bad as it gets in that department, rivaling Plan Nine), character development (is it me, or did all 50's women fall in love with the first troubled soul they met?) or believable acting. It's solid cheese all they way through. And yes, fun.

Things I learned from this movie:

If you seduce a blonde you just met, vanish before she wakes up, and don't call afterwards, the next time you see her she'll be vaguely annoyed, but she'll take you back to her apartment anyway, and then act like nothing ever happened. You don't have to explain a thing.

Pretending to punch someone knocks them flying, no matter how obviously the punch is faked.

Notes an octave apart are about two feet apart on a piano. (Watch the singer's fake piano playing, it's the worst I've ever seen.)

Radiation isn't just a matter of alpha, beta and gamma. *Some* isotopes are different. Really different. You won't believe how different.

Chase a monster and it heads straight for the most obvious dead end it can find.

Great film, for what it is.

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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