Purely Joyful Movie!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Watching these movies is such a mind numbing waste of time.As boring and terrible as this movie is, I still can't help but notice how similar the plot is to Bride of the Gorilla.The only difference is that Perry Mason got poisoned by a native and the fool in this movie gets whacked in the dome with a meteorite.The rest is the same.They go out at night and kill and we never really see what the monsters look like.But the similarities are only in the plot.Everything else about this movie is inferior.The acting is terrible, there's no action at all and almost everything that happens doesn't matter.The only good thing is that there is a hot chick that always wants to make breakfast.How can you not like that?Two stars, one for the hot chick.

The reputation this movie has is deserved. It is slowly paced, badly acted, and poorly filmed. I saw the MST3K version and it was still a chore to sit through.While studying minerals in the desert, a young, handsome scientist hooks up with a Native American professor and a young, beautiful reporter. While doing research, the central character is hit by a piece of meteorite, which lodges into his body. This causes him to turn into a giant lizard monster at night. We don't really see much of the monster, robbing us of one of the only fun things the movie had going for it.Probably the highlight of the movie is the concert footage, where they characters go to watch a folk band perform a ridiculous song called California Lady. The MST3K segment where they do a fake "Behind The Music" on this group is one of the more memorable bits from the show's history.I think the movie ends with the main character getting killed, but I wasn't really paying attention. I had to find other stuff to do while it was going on just to get through it. Plenty of bad movies are still entertaining. This one was mostly boring.

Why are so many crummy movies filmed in the desert? Is it that the sun turns the directors mental, or is it that nutjobs naturally gravitate to the sparsely populated areas to escape persecution? We may never know.Regardless, this movie is pretty simple B-movie fare. Imagine a werewolf movie with all the Gothic horror trappings removed, and native American nonsense tossed in as a replacement. A boring yet hunky guy meets a dim blonde, the talk for a bit and then he's smacked on the head by a micro-meteorite. He then spends the rest of the movie feeling dizzy, while constantly trailed by his blonde and a native American professor called Johnny Longbow while complaining about headaches.When not being dizzy he's busy being a moon-creature, ripping apart clichés and stereotypes in the night. We don't see much of this, concentrating instead on the blonde's legs as she wears a variety of 70's fashions which make her look alternately like a skank or a playmate.To be fair, they do make a nice couple, if a bit dim. The guys plight elicits some sympathy, but not too much since he's had it easy. Johnny Longbow is OK, but lumbered with all the wordy speeches and exposition for the all too small plot. The rest of the characters are stereotypes and cardboard cutouts, and the story lurches along with little real pacing or cohesion. Not boring in the same way Manos or Monster-a-go-go, but no thriller. Two stars for this, one for Johnny and his bow, the other for the blonde bomb-crater.

Pure 70's cheese from beginning to end! Jonnie Longbow our Navajo University Professor is a true pleasure. Paul our tragic hero is a real 70's lunkhead whose just dying to take his shirt off. He lives with his mom and just occasionally turns into a man-sized reptile who feels the need to tear people's arms off and beat them with them. Kathy is our scantily clad day glow wearing starlet who of course falls madly in love with the aforementioned 70's reptile boy Paul. People start dying and the bulky meat-head Sheriff is puzzled. Being a bulky meat-head he decides to enlist Jonnie Longbow's help, together the two try to get to the bottom of the murders. There is a cameo performance from "the Folk Trio Who Sang California Lady", which of course is spellbinding to say the least. Will Paul's secret be discovered? Will Kathy ever find love? Will Jonnie Longbow ever stop telling Navajo fables? Find out when you watch "Track of the Moon Beast". I highly recommend it.