Product Description

The Doomsday Machine (1972)

In an effort to further explore the galaxy, the United States is hours away from launching a manned mission to Venus. But when a Chinese plot to destroy the Earth is uncovered, the U.S. teams up with the Soviet Union to replace members of its all-male crew with women. Now, it’s up to the crew of Project Astra to keep the human race alive and thriving.

Werewolf Of Washington (1973)

While on assignment in Hungary, a young reporter (Quantum Leap’s Dean Stockwell) is attacked by a mysterious animal. But when he returns to the United States as the President’s press assistant, authorities begin to find political socialites ripped apart by a similar creature. No one is safe while The Werewolf of Washington is roaming the nation’s capital!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82998 in DVD
• Brand: SHOUT FACTORY (UNDER GENIUS)
• Released on: 2006-09-19
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 180 minutes

Features

• Elvira continues her late-night horror tradition with the MOVIE MACABRE series, which finds the buxom Mistress of the Dark hosting a selection of campy horrorics. This volume presents a double feature of flicks: in DOOMSDAY MACHINE (1972), orbiting astronauts attempt to repopulate mankind after Earth is destroyed by a nuclear holocaust; and in WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON (1973), a member of the preside

Customer Reviews

2 BAD movies = one great time
What do you do when you want to end your giant monster movie franchise and you're bankrupt? Stock footage. Lots and lots of stock footage. That's Gamera Super Monster, the final entry in the first Gamera series that started back in 1965 and ended up here in 1980.

There's hardly a better movie for Elvira to zing than this one. Super Monster is a mess for fans of the giant, fire-breathing turtle. Inserted between footage of every monster fight is an incomprehensible, cartoon sequences, grade-Z storyline involving space women, an annoying singing kid, and a disembodied voice telling an evil space woman to take over the world.

New special effects scenes are nothing short of painful, including one where Gamera stomps past a faux Godzilla poster and knocks it down, an apparent in-joke that fails given the quality of Super Monster. A shot of the space women's van (apparently the best they could do is a reject from the `60s) disappearing is the stuff Z-movie legends are made of.

To be fair, for someone who has never seen any of the original Gamera series, this would be a fun piece of schlock. The monster fights come frequently, and last for a while. The best parts of all of them are featured, and no time is wasted having scientists explain how they should be defeated. Gamera shows up, takes them out, and moves on.

For kids, this probably isn't a bad choice either. Since most of the stock footage comes from films intended for the younger set anyway, this seems to be right up their alley (excusing the odd choice of dubbing in four-letter words). Incomprehensible wouldn't be a problem for the under five years old set.

There's still no excuse for this production from the standpoint of a giant monster fan. While the Godzilla series would succumb to this same stock footage tactic in Godzilla's Revenge, at least there we were treated to an entirely new monster and fight scenes. You get nothing of the sort from Super Monster.

Elvira's movie macabre
this was purchased for a christmas, but it was well packaged and arrived in a timely manner