AboveDeepBuggy
Some things I liked some I did not.
Borgarkeri
A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
Michelle Ridley
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
O2D
While this movies make very little sense, it's not really that bad.So a giant sparkler crashes into a man and his son.The man dies and his son becomes a giant werewolf with really bad teeth.If you are a fan of Howard Stern, you will quickly notice that the "monster" sounds like a cross between Gary The Retard and JD.If you are not a Stern fan, you probably won't understand a thing it says.But anyway, I was lead to believe this movie was sci-fi/horror/western and it's really none of those.It's a movie about relationships with no other genre elements.I will never understand why old movies with the word "teenager" in the title never actually have any teenagers in the movie.That aside, this movie isn't too bad.Give it a shot.
dougdoepke
Talk about your 50's juvenile delinquents. This one makes Lon Chaney's Wolfman look well groomed. But it's not the kid's fault. Seems something unexplained fell from the sky and turned the boy into a teenage yeti with lockjaw. But Mom keeps him hidden away in her house, otherwise he has a habit of throttling people he meets. Just how she's managed that for years is one of the unexplained mysteries of teenage drive-in. But hey, I really like the twist with sweet little Ruthie. She's every guy's ideal prom date. But what a calculating little brain behind the charm. In fact, I'd say she's the real teenage monster. After all, our wolfman is more pathetic than evil. A good barber, a few skin grafts, plus a speech coach, might introduce him to semi-polite company. But I guess that's why the setting is back in the 1800's. Anyhow, Gwynne shows her acting chops as long-suffering Mom, while Gloria Castillo scores as Bad Ruthie. I just wish our grunting outcast got more screen credit, maybe the Drive-In Golden Comb for the biggest Elvis pompadour. Now don't laugh, but I take the movie more as a human-interest story than as a scare feature. Plus, it's a rather effective one, despite a plot with more holes than grandma's sieve and a budget of about a buck eighty including bus fare. It's also rather sneaky— that is, see if you think the moral scales properly balance at movie's end. After all, this is the straight-laced 1950's.
dbborroughs
Scifi Western Horror film about a boy changed into a werewolf like psycho by a meteor crash that kills his father. The only one who can control the boy is his mother who keeps him locked away when he isn't working in her goldmine. Of course she can't watch him and he gets out from time to time and kills or kidnaps members of the surrounding area.Give it points for being something different, I mean how many Westerns have scifi and horror elements? But at the same time you have to wish it was at least marginally better than it is. The acting is okay, about what you'd expect from b movie like this. The problem is the plot line is so full of holes that nothing makes sense. To begin with how could the teenage monster have wandered around for 7 years and no one have been the wiser? Explanations in the film don't ring true as much of the plotting. This is a real turkey of a film. (and it serves me right for trying a 50's horror film that was completely unknown to me.)
babeth_jr
This movie came out in the late 1950's when science fiction/monster/teenager movies were all the rage, so I guess the producers of this picture decided to try and combine all three, plus throw in a western setting to come up with 1957's "Teenage Monster". This movie is cheesy, but is actually not bad, if you can get past the "monster", who is not scary looking at all, but instead looks like a 50 year old half man, half ape in cowboy boots and jeans. It's unintentionally hilarious. The premise of the movie is that a teenager turns into a hairy beast after being exposed to a meteor that fell to earth and killed his father when he was a little boy. The movie never explains why the father was killed and the boy survived, and why being exposed would turn him into a cross between the incredible hulk and an ape who mumbles when he speaks and is several sandwiches shy of a picnic.Ann Gwynne plays the monster's mother. She is a good actress, but she is pretty much reduced to scolding the teenage monster and crying throughout most of the movie. Despite these flaws, this movie really a hoot. I love cheesy 1950 drive in movies, and this is one of the better ones in my opinion.
