Most bad film aficionados are familiar with this film. While you can talk about low-budget horror movies with cheesy acting all day long, this one had an interesting back story. Con man (Arthur Nelson White, who had a number of aliases) with a penchant for teen brides cons locals into making a movie, then disappears during the production. The investors (mainly a couple of the actors), find the available footage and try to salvage something out of it after they had invested in it. While the “official” release date is 1963, most sources seem to indicate that it never saw the light of day until the early to mid 1970s on TV, never having played theatrically. I don’t know when it’s scheduled to be released, but the producers have put together this trailer. The doc is a combination of reenactments and interviews with participants.
“You see, when a monster and a small car love each other very much…”
Looks a little goofy. Might not be too bad.
That looks great. I now want to see the original.
And, if anyone’s interested, this thread on another message board is a chronicle going back six years into the research of the mystery of just who this person A.J. Nelson [Arthur Nelson White] was, and whatever happened to him.
Was this the one with the Carpet Monster, with all the sound done in voiceover because they lost the original tape?
Well, you’re half right. Maybe. It’s the carpet monster, but one of the actors said that they deliberately did not record sound for most of the movie as a cost savings, not that it was lost.
Per Wikipedia it appears that accounts differ.
Yes, I think so.
The entire movie is available on Youtube.
ETA: The original movie, I mean.
I’ve seen it twice. The second time I was sober and solo. It was boring as hell.