One of my friends asked me if I had seen the 1985 movie "Attack of the Beast Creatures", and I actually hadn't. I remember having seen a clip from it somewhere, sometime, but I've never actually heard the movie. So I tracked it down and sat down to watch it.
I have to admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations to writer Robert A. Hutton and director Michael Stanley with this 1985 movie, because the clip I had seen before watching the movie seemed amazingly low budget and with laughable special effects.
And that was exactly what "Attack of the Beast Creatures" turned out to be. The script in the movie was so simplistic that you could essentially watch the first and last 10 minutes of the movie and not have missed out on anything. Yeah, everything in between was just filler. There was nothing resembling any deeply thought through storyline or plot here; only that it was about some people marooned on a hostile island with some horribly inanimate murderous puppets.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Attack of the Beast Creatures". But given the lack of a proper storyline, then you're not in for any grand or memorable acting performances.
Visually then "Attack of the Beast Creatures" was pretty terrible. Especially the creature design. I am sure that in idea and concept stage that these strange diminutive carnivorous humanoids were interesting, but seeing poorly painted and worse yet animated puppets on the screen just didn't make for a particularly thrilling horror movie.
"Attack of the Beast Creatures" is the type of guilty pleasure movies that you sit down to watch only because it is so bad that it has to be seen to believe.
My rating of "Attack of the Beast Creatures" lands on a three out of ten stars.
I have to admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations to writer Robert A. Hutton and director Michael Stanley with this 1985 movie, because the clip I had seen before watching the movie seemed amazingly low budget and with laughable special effects.
And that was exactly what "Attack of the Beast Creatures" turned out to be. The script in the movie was so simplistic that you could essentially watch the first and last 10 minutes of the movie and not have missed out on anything. Yeah, everything in between was just filler. There was nothing resembling any deeply thought through storyline or plot here; only that it was about some people marooned on a hostile island with some horribly inanimate murderous puppets.
Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in "Attack of the Beast Creatures". But given the lack of a proper storyline, then you're not in for any grand or memorable acting performances.
Visually then "Attack of the Beast Creatures" was pretty terrible. Especially the creature design. I am sure that in idea and concept stage that these strange diminutive carnivorous humanoids were interesting, but seeing poorly painted and worse yet animated puppets on the screen just didn't make for a particularly thrilling horror movie.
"Attack of the Beast Creatures" is the type of guilty pleasure movies that you sit down to watch only because it is so bad that it has to be seen to believe.
My rating of "Attack of the Beast Creatures" lands on a three out of ten stars.