HOWCO apparently stands for "HOW COME They Made This Crap?"
1940s star Anne Gwynne heads a no-name no-talent cast, playing an 1880s mother who husband is killed by a meteor, and whose son is badly injured. Flash forward seven years. Now the kid has hair all over his body, speaks gibberish, disobeys his mother, kidnaps a girl, and brings her to his room. Today, we would just say the kid is going through puberty.
Gwynne succeeds in hiding this monstrosity from everyone, but occasionally he/it slips out just to break someone's neck. After Gwynne finds the girl (Gloria Castillo) in junior's closet, she talks her into staying on to look after her son, for a tidy sum of $500. Castillo promptly loses the money to her boyfriend. In the only interesting plot point, Castillo turns into a b**** and decides she will use the teenage monster to kill her boyfriend. Then she gets Gwynne to sign a financial agreement. Next, she starts working on junior and putting thoughts in his head (since he can't put any there himself), turning him against his mother. So what will hairboy do?
The print I watched on Youtube was about 54 minutes long; IMDb says the film is 65 minutes. Hopefully, no one is searching for the lost footage.
1940s star Anne Gwynne heads a no-name no-talent cast, playing an 1880s mother who husband is killed by a meteor, and whose son is badly injured. Flash forward seven years. Now the kid has hair all over his body, speaks gibberish, disobeys his mother, kidnaps a girl, and brings her to his room. Today, we would just say the kid is going through puberty.
Gwynne succeeds in hiding this monstrosity from everyone, but occasionally he/it slips out just to break someone's neck. After Gwynne finds the girl (Gloria Castillo) in junior's closet, she talks her into staying on to look after her son, for a tidy sum of $500. Castillo promptly loses the money to her boyfriend. In the only interesting plot point, Castillo turns into a b**** and decides she will use the teenage monster to kill her boyfriend. Then she gets Gwynne to sign a financial agreement. Next, she starts working on junior and putting thoughts in his head (since he can't put any there himself), turning him against his mother. So what will hairboy do?
The print I watched on Youtube was about 54 minutes long; IMDb says the film is 65 minutes. Hopefully, no one is searching for the lost footage.