Absolutely Fantastic

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Another hideously cheap piece of drive-in trash, this is one of those movies where no care was taken in to establish any sort of continuity or character. At one point, a female character comes in and asks another what they are writing. My future, she replies. I retorted to that statement, hope you're not planning a future in acting! There is little explanation given as to why a teenage boy has suddenly ended up looking like a caveman. Going around attacking people for no reason yet acting childlike when among the women who seem to gather around him to protect him from harm.Looking like a badly filmed early TV show, this is so hideously bad I can't even imagine it being rushed into production and even released. How anybody could even sit through this and think it was release worthy is beyond me. The monster grumbles in gibberish, and the other characters refer to him as if it's normal for an old western town have such a creature roaming around. Amateurish acting so laughably bad, this is difficult to get through for even those of us who can find something good in a bad movie. If you think that Ed Wood made bad movies, think again at this collection of three teenage movies packaged together under one DVD. At least my copy was cheap but as they say, you get what you pay for.

mother's acting! just get him fixed Kathy uses him"Teenage Monster" is a bad film...period. Anyone who sees any brilliance in this film is not to be trusted--they MUST be insane! However, on the positive side, I have seen worse and there is a certain silly charm that make it worth seeing if you are a bad movie buff. Otherwise, you should avoid this film like Ebola!The film is set in the old western times. It begins with what looks like a sparkler falling out of the sky--killing a man and injuring his son. The mother is, somehow, unhurt. Years pass. Now the mother lives with her son--who is hidden from everyone because he looks a lot like a wolf-man and Dan Haggerty put together! Despite looking like a large adult, he's supposedly a teenager with the mind of a child. The problem is that he periodically escapes and kills people. Oops! And, when a local lady learns about this, instead of telling the authorities, she blackmails the mother AND turns the creepy were-thingy into a hired killer!It's pretty easy to read this and know that the plot was stupid. Additionally, the makeup for the 'kid' was simply awful and looks like it cost about $8 to make! Combine this with some really bad acting (particularly from the mother) and you have a film with very little to recommend it. Other than kitsch value, I can't see anyone caring about this monstrosity.

Teenage Monster is just typical of the many very low budget sci fi/horrors made for the drive in market during the 1950's. Most of them were so made that they were good and this is certainly one of them.A meteor lands on a family's farm, killing the dad and injuring the young boy. The rays from the meteor turn him into a werewolf like monster some years later and he now likes killing people. His mum keeps him locked up as much as she can. A young woman is employed by the mother and the monster takes a liking to her and she gets him to kill her boyfriend after he steals $500 from her. After she tries to get the monster to kill his mum and her new lover, the local sheriff, he knocks her out, throws her to her death from a cliff and he is shot dead.The cast includes Anne Gwynne (House of Frankenstein), Gloria Castillo (Invasion of the Saucer Men), Stuart Wade (Monster From the Oceon Floor) with Gilbert Perkins as the monster.This is a must see for all bad movie fans. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

In June of 1880, the Cannon family is mining for gold. A meteor explodes nearby, killing the father, Jim (McCullough), and injuring his young son, Charles (Parker). Now a widow, Ruth Cannon (Gwynne) vows to continue working the mine. Seven years later, Charles (now played by Gilbert Perkins) is nearly an adult, but has mutated into a terrifying wildman. Ruth controls him most of the time, but occasionally he leaves the mine to kill people and livestock. When they finally strike it rich, the secret becomes even harder to keep."Teenage Monster" is one of a number of films of the 1950s and 1960s that combined the classic western with the horror genre. Make-up artist Jack P. Pierce (better known for work for Universal on such films as "Frankenstein" (1931) and its sequels) provided the make-up for the grown-up Charles. Okay, so the budget was low and the cast wasn't particularly good. I try to make allowances for such factors and give a lot of leeway to films of this vintage. Unfortunately, this one has little to commend it. Viewers who survived films like "Billy the Kid versus Dracula" (1966) with their sanity intact might want to check this one out. Most others should not subject their VCRs to the taint.