Wonderful character development!

ridiculous rating

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Is it the best old Science Fiction B movie you'll ever see? Probably not, but it has a real charm. The huge bird puppet was made by the same Mexican film company that produced it, and boy, that is one ugly bird. Sure the acting is a bit shoddy here and there but isn't that part of what makes the movies like this so good? The fact that it's bad? I love it. I've always been a big fan of films like this.

...or as refuge after the development of special effects. because it is part of a long serie of huge ants and tarantulas, Godzilla and King Kongs, monsters and ghosts and it gives the old fashion of fake realism, real useful after a contemporary blockbuster. it is a nice film and the motif is simple - it represents a travel in past. a plesant one because the flavor of fairy tale is still fresh. because the fear is not different by the fear from childhood about dark characters. and this is the most significant thing. so, for nostalgics. and not only.

Yeah, buddy, this review does contain spoilers. I had heard that this movie was beyond bad. But golly gee whiz, Oscar winner Ralph Hammeras worked on the visual effects. Well, friends and neighbors, those visual effects were not that special. The colossal birdbeast that was supposed to be ravaging New York City has a certain resemblance to a gigantic turkey. And it describes this movie. The critter is surrounded by an anti-matter shield that renders it undetectable on radar. It even picks up a passing train in its enormous beak like a normal bird picks up an earthworm in the same manner. Heroic scientist Mitch McAfee (played by Jeff Morrow) invents a mu-meson projector and kills the oversized tweety bird, thus making it unnecessary for Sylvester the cat to get the job done. Lots of stock footage are used, including THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO (1944) for the B-25 bomber with the Ruptured Duck logo on the nose of the aircraft and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) for the scene where a building is blown up (it was a replica of the Los Angeles City Hall). There's a scene where a gigantic egg is turned into a scrambled mess (no, not a print of THE GIANT CLAW). The story goes that director Fred F. Sears had his cast members act frightened, and he promised that THE GIANT CLAW would have some excellent special effects. Well, what happened was that Jeff Morrow attended the movie preview and was sitting in the back row. The audiences laughed themselves silly and were rolling in the aisles. Jeff Morrow sneaked out before the movie ended, he was so mortified. You want a good laugh? Check out this movie. But if you want to see a much better movie about a colossal birdbeast on the rampage, watch RODAN. The cats at Toho Company did a far better job. There you have it. And thanks for reading this review.

Here we go with another movie that had potential but ended up making 70 minutes seem like an eternity. A giant bird starts attacking Earth and scientists immediately know everything about it and how to defeat it. They couldn't have made it look less like a bird.I would have rather seen a guy in a bird suit. The majority of the movie is the generic scientist and his attractive female side kick getting close to the bird and "having planes ready" for them.Knowing that the bird(and anything from its planet) can't be hurt by earth weapons,they go to its nest(that they just assumed existed and instantly found) and destroy its egg with 3 bullets.Did I mention that there's a legend that says just seeing the bird means you are going to die?One guy knows that and when he gets killed(the bird throws some twigs on the people who destroyed its egg and then eats the other guy) the main guy says "He was right about seeing the bird", even though they see it every 5 minutes. There was absolutely no reason for this to be named The Giant Claw.Maybe The Giant Bird-like Thing? There's also no reason to ever watch this.