Caltiki the Immortal Monster (1959)

As we have seen, the 1950’s was the decade of the ‘creature feature’, what with sci-fi horror films such as Godzilla and THEM!. A late entry was The Blob, with Steve McQueen, a film that was so successful that it inspired foreign filmmakers to try to cash in on the same premise, and the most successful of these imitations was 1959’s Caltiki the Immortal Monster.

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An Italian production, perhaps a precursor to the ‘Spaghetti Westerns’, the film is certainly horrific enough, more graphic than had been The Blob, and it was also a ‘headlights’ film. From the IMDb:

Yes, this is the movie we ran out of … my younger sister crying and the rest of us equally scared out of our pants. For years on end we have remembered this movie but never been able to find it. Finally I got a copy on DVD and enjoyed watching the rest of the movie… a great 50s Blob movie and one that brings back memories of that day when me and my brothers and sisters went to the Saturday matinée and were scared out of our wits… having to leave soon after the greedy scientist loses his hand to the Blob after he goes back for the bag of gold jewels. This review has to be longer so without giving away the ending I will just say that the only disappointing part of the movie is that the Blob is kinda slow… and needs radioactivity to grow and move. I would have like for him to cause more death and destruction before the end of the movie. There are some cool graphic death scenes and plenty of comic relief from the dated but entertaining acting and even a tribal belly dance. Plenty of greedy evil crazed scientists too.

Youtube offers the complete film in full format and it is embedded below. We used to watch this as children but that was better than 50 years ago, and today’s kids may not take well to seeing a man’s head reduced to a skull by a creeping blob. You be the judge, if you so dare.

Source: neatorama

Rating Caltiki the Immortal Monster (1959) is 5.0 / 5 Votes: 5
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