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Richard (or Dick) is talking to his boss when Cliff interupts and tells him about the laughable case (that he dug out of a garbage can when Richard wasn't looking). Richard takes the case and runs into Diane and the Professor at the police station. Diane is bringing up her snake theory to the sheriff and laces into Richard for feeding her kid chocolate.
Meanwhile next door another murder occurs and Richard finds a claw at the scene of the crime. He takes it to the college where Diane works and Dr. Pennyworth analyzes it. Richard gets invited to dinner and he hears people screaming close by. The closet monster is on the loose as he kills Katchem with an Alien-esque head that shoots out of its mouth and escapes into the night. Dr. Pennyworth overhears the sound the head makes before it kills a victim and puts it to music, playing it on a xylophone.
The group tracks the monster to a school, where it almost kills the Professor. Pennyworth is killed trying to "communicate with it," and a city evacuation goes into effect. Dick and Diane rig up a broadcast system and they play the xylophone to lure out the monster. Pennyworth's dying words told them to destroy "all of something" (he dies before he finishes), and they take this to mean destroy its energy. This of course doesn't work...the closets must be destroyed. Duh. The closet monster falls in love with Dick when his glasses fall off (he's a handsome dude) and carries him around San Francisco until its energy wears out and it dies. |
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 | Don't ever steal a blind man's seeing-eye dog, it will really piss him off.
| | Obituaries are the backbone of newspaper circulation.
| | Everyone working in a newspaper office has a nickname.
| | PG rated movie cameramen should watch those dipping camera shots in shower scenes.
| | Killing a cockroach violates the 6th commandment.
| | Nerdy women change their appearance when the right man comes along.
| | If you want to lure a closet monster into the open, play it's death shriek on a xylophone.
| | The United States Army can't aim worth a damn.
| | A town can be evacuated due to closet monsters with no resistance whatsoever.
| | The end of the world is no big deal.
| | Working together, a biology professor and a reporter can construct a broadcast system and electricity field.
| | Nerdy guys turn into Brad Pitt when they take off their glasses.
| | You can't kill a monster with a toy bugle and a laser beam.
| | A college biology teacher can talk the world into destroying their closets.
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| 12 mins - No one notices Cliff digging that old article out of the trash bin? He's in plain sight!
| | 15 mins - Watch the microphone dip into the shot.
| | 16 mins - Okay, he looks like Clark Kent, and his name is Dick Clark? Please tell me this isn't a coincidence.
| | 25 mins - Stop talking, Doctor. Now.
| | 26 mins - What the hell is wrong with Diane? She spaced right out!
| | 29 mins - So that's what a closet monster looks like...
| | 31 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A SQUAD CAR!
| | 39 mins - There she goes again! Dick, put your glasses on!
| | 44 mins - Everyone makes a big, dramatic motion. For a second it looks like Dick is about to rip his shirt off to reveal a big red "S" underneath.
| | 50 mins - Minutes have passed in the school, yet they've been on the road long enough for the sun to set.
| | 53 mins - Don't try to communicate with it...fire at will, boys!
| | 62 mins - Kick his ass, Dick! Oh no! Dick, the glasses, the glasses!
| | 72 mins - RANDOM ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST A VASE!
| | 75 mins - The closet monster is a woman! Either that or he's gay...
| | 79 mins - You probably could have taken your clothing out before wrecking your closet...
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| | Audio clips in wav format | SOUNDS | Starving actors speak out | |
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| File | Size | Dialog |  | monstercloset1.wav
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| Sam: "She come in here and said to me that them holes was probably made by some kind of a giant snake."
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| Woman: "It killed my husband! It's in the closet!"
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| Dr. Pennyworth playing the xylophone.
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| General: "Frogs? What do I give a ding-dong about Frogs? For Christ's sake get back in the ballgame Pennyfinger."
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| The Closet Monster's congested snarling.
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| Diane: "Go out and destroy every closet you can find, every closet in the world."
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Reply #1. Posted on April 11, 1999, 04:33:27 PM by NetFrog Alpha
Boring. Lame references to Superman are prevalant throughout the film. I feel it's safe to say that you can skip this one and still go on with your life.
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Reply #2. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:09:49 PM by Valley Dude
I kenw the family that lived in a house where some of this movie was filmed. It's in Sherman Oaks CA. For those of you who not familar with LA, Sherman Oaks is directly over the hill from Beverly Hills, lower rent but still pretty nice. I assume most of the movie is filmed in the San Fernando Valley.
As for the Family that owned the house, let's just say watching the movie was a more pleasant experence than knowing them.
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Reply #3. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:10:12 PM by popman
I disagree. LOL all along this movie. My girlfriends just told me it was the worst she ever been after "rabidd granies" by troma too.
Do you remember when the monster carry the hero but can not cross the door because he is in the bad "direction" ?
Sorry for my so bad english.
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Reply #4. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:09:49 PM by Mike Colliin
5-8-01
The script of the movie is awful. The ending ends with the monster dying in the street with the Superman(Clark) in its
hands.WOW what a ending. The US Army had to leave just because it was too powerful and couldn't stop it. WOW, our tax dollars was wasted.HAH
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Reply #5. Posted on November 25, 2006, 05:10:12 PM by Ernst Bitterman
To those who say this movie stunk: did you not look at the box before renting it? It's extremely forthcoming about it's nature as a parody of a genre-- I grant, the genre is 50's-esque mystery-creature-with-but-a-single-weakness movies, but man, is it funny AND apt. The Professor is an archtype established in the original "Thing from Another World", and I'd swear the Padre spent his time off camera studying the same character in "War of the Worlds", so similar was his body language.
This was my first exposure to Troma product, and I've a soft spot in my head... dah, heart for it. I guess you have to have a certain sense of whimsey, and a bit of backing in black'n'white monstrosity to really enjoy it.
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Reply #6. Posted on November 24, 2003, 07:25:26 PM by cafe creme
The best special effects on earth: Put your mate in a wardrobe and make him throw clothes while you disapear inside with epileptic movements...
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