Ten cent movies: The Manster | macmcentire macmcentire Author, editor, such-and-such. Skip to content Home About MY BOOKS ← Ten cent movies: Galaxina Fantastic Friday: Ban the bomb → Ten cent movies: The Manster Posted on May 15, 2013 by Mac McEntire A while back, I bought this 50-movie set, Sci-Fi Invasion, for five bucks. That adds up to ten cents per movie. The starched-shirt conservatism of the 1950s comes to an end with all the sex and violence in 1959’s The Manster. Here’s what happens: Larry, an American journalist in Japan, makes friends with a local doctor, not aware that the doc is up to some mad science, with a basement full of half-human monsters. The doctor drugs then experiments on the unsuspecting American, transforming him into a half-man, half-monster… a manster! Speculative spectacle: At first, Larry seems to be experiencing the ol’ Jekyll and Hyde thing, with the experiments affecting his personality. Then, an eyeball sprouts on shoulder, growing into a second head, and finally into a separate, evil Larry. Sleaze factor: The first shot of the movie is two women skinny-dipping, followed immediately, by a bloody monster attack. Later, our American hero has no problem romantically pursuing every Japanese lady he meets, even though he has a wife waiting for him back him back home. Quantum quotables: Larry: “I don’t know what I like better, Japanese Sake, or Japanese geishas.” Doctor: “We have plenty of both here.” What the felgercarb? The mad doctor’s secret lab is located inside an active volcano. How does that work, exactly? Microcosmic minutiae: This movie is allegedly a favorite of director Sam Raimi, which seems proven by how the good-Ash-versus-evil-Ash scene from Army of Darkness is lifted (ripped off?) from this one. Worth ten cents? This one’s a lot of fun, actually, thanks entirely to a crazed, over-the-top performance by actor Peter Dyneley as Larry. He was doing “Nicholas Cage crazy” before that was a thing. **** Want more? Check out my book, CINE HIGH, now available for the Kindle and the free Kindle app. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related About Mac McEntire Author of CINE HIGH. amazon.com/dp/B00859NDJ8 View all posts by Mac McEntire → This entry was posted in Ten cent movies. Bookmark the permalink. ← Ten cent movies: Galaxina Fantastic Friday: Ban the bomb → Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. 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