O. K., we can all agree that there have been some pretty silly looking monsters in 1950's and 1960's horror movies. A flowing blob of goo, giant turkeys, walking trees and even a rock that waddled after its intended victims. Now here comes one of the oddest, a silly looking creature that rumor has was authorized by the Hoover administration-a vacuum cleaner like creature that literally sucks the bone marrow and the solid mass around it right out of it. These creatures also have the ability to climb trees and drop out of the sky just like that house in "The Wizard of Oz". Poor research doctor Edward Judd, living a solitary life by choice to do his cancer research in peace must now share his island with these creatures and one of the cinema's great masters of menace. "It's a body, but I don't recognize it. As far as I can tell, the body doesn't have any bones" says Inspector Sam Kydd as he examines the first victim where all you see is their coat.
That most serious of all mad doctors, Peter Cushing, is aghast to find out that his experiments unleashed this evil, and is brought by Judd to the island to help him figure out what's causing this so called "bone disease". Carole Gray adds feminine loveliness to The film as the lady determined to bring the handsome young doctor out of his shell. The entire island ends up trapped in a building surrounded by them, just like the townspeople haunted by the blob, houses covered in spider webs and other various monsters in similar films. Add on radioactivity to make these hose nosed creatures even more dangerous, and you've got another film reminding us of what the world has done wrong. This has the benefit of color photography, that vivid 60's brightness that gives it a painting like quality. So enjoy the unbelievable silliness of the whole thing and remember afterwards that your own household appliance is just that...or is it?
That most serious of all mad doctors, Peter Cushing, is aghast to find out that his experiments unleashed this evil, and is brought by Judd to the island to help him figure out what's causing this so called "bone disease". Carole Gray adds feminine loveliness to The film as the lady determined to bring the handsome young doctor out of his shell. The entire island ends up trapped in a building surrounded by them, just like the townspeople haunted by the blob, houses covered in spider webs and other various monsters in similar films. Add on radioactivity to make these hose nosed creatures even more dangerous, and you've got another film reminding us of what the world has done wrong. This has the benefit of color photography, that vivid 60's brightness that gives it a painting like quality. So enjoy the unbelievable silliness of the whole thing and remember afterwards that your own household appliance is just that...or is it?