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yeah, the 71 minute jem about Tobanga the tree monster. thought it was a half-decent flick when I first saw it decades ago on nyc channel 5's saturday morning b movie slot.
sure the tree monster is silly but it still works for me. professionally made with some good sci-fi thrills.the native babes are hoddees

"TABONGA!"

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Me love some TABONGA!!!  Aye!  Madonga!

I remember reading a summary or review of this movie many years ago (I think it might have been in TV Guide). It said FROM HELL IT CAME: To hell with it.

FROM HELL IT CAME was on TCM yesterday afternoon. 

I think it's sad that Master Monster Maker Paul Blaisdell, who actually wore most of the costumes he made- got p**sed on and dumped by AIP.  :bluesad:

He made the monsters for-

.the BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES (1955)
.the DAY THE WORLD ENDED (1955) *
.IT CONQUERED THE WORLD (1956)*
.NOT OF THIS EARTH (1957)
.the SHE CREATURE (1956) *
.INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN (1957)
.VOODOO WOMAN (1957)*
.FROM HELL IT CAME (1957)
.GHOST OF DRAG STRIP HOLLOW (1958) *

* He was in the monster suit too!

i agree, he was brilliant and got seriously crapped on.

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I love the  super hilariously bad way the tree monster looks

Beware!  Beware!  TABONGA gon' gitchoo!!! 

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It is the Tabonga! Everybody walk away now! No need to hurry!

I really like the monsters actual design but seeing it in motion it's far less cool. 

'motion' is a very relative term here.

I thought this was a decent movie, even if the bad guy was a bit... wooden.

we're in trouble now, gang, alex is telling dad jokes, lol!

My point exactly. 

Thing about this movie to me is that the title didn't really match the film.  (in a more noticeable way then some other films.)  Something more along the lines of Revenge of the Tree  or The Island Curse, would have felt more appropriate.  From Hell it came  feels like it belongs to a more 70's exploitation film to me.

I first heard of this film from the old (now long gone) site in the '00s which had a gallery of every single card from the Horror Monsters non-sports series.

It's been a favourite for a while. I do like the monster design a lot and think it's a fun film, but it's also a movie I've always been able to giggle at... and this is as a person who takes Gamera relatively seriously. From Hell It Came is a masterpiece of genuinely hilarious '50s monster flicks that goes above and beyond a lot of the competition.

this one was if i recall really painfully bad, but to be fair it's not nearly as Bad as (1953)'s Robot Monster that one is so bad that the director tried killing himself and missed.

i think i lost 30 years of my life watching that one,

Given the budget this was never going to be as effective as it could be but the Tabonga suit is great and there's enough going on in it to pass the short running time pretty enjoyably.

TABONGA!

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