Original title: Maciste Contro i Mostri
Peplum. Italy. Starring Reg Lewis, Margaret Lee, Luciano Marin, Andrea Aureli & Birgit Bergen. Directed by Guido Malatesta.
Pepikahs Video (Greece). English dubbed. Fullscreen.
This is one of those craptastic low budget peplum/fantasy cheeze-fests that italians cranked out like crazy during the early sixties (often starring C-list "actors" like Dan Vadis and Kirk Morris) and that have entertained ten year olds and immature B-movie buffs like myself ever since. Noone would mistake this for a good movie, but it's a minor classic of its kind. It's about our hero Maciste ("Maxus" or "Hercules" in some prints) who basically just walks around in stoneage and slays some monsters, rights a few wrongs or fights a bunch of evil cavemen who likes to kidnap blond cuties in fur bikinis and perfect make-up. What more do you need when Reg Lewis is simply the perfect sword and sandal cheeze hero? Why? He throws a mighty fine boulder, sports a bloody rockabilly due that could only have been made in heaven and delivers his lines with the bombastic and smug diginitide of a peplum God! Why he only got to put on the loin-cloth in this one Cinecittà role I will never understand... 4/5 (entertainment value)
Awful movie, this one, but has its moments of hilarity. Malatesta was definitely a hack. Even the gorgeous Margaret Lee looks bad in this.
SvaraRaderaReg was set to do a second movie but quit because the effort wasn't worth it for him.
SvaraRaderaVenoms5: I really like this one, although strictly on a "I can't believe how cheezy this movie is!" level. So shoot me... ;)
SvaraRaderaWilliam: Interesting... do you know anything more about Lewis and/or his Cinecittà escapade? Love the guy.