Teenage Monster (1957)

[peter johnson]

Just a few brief notes on this 65min. masterpiece:
*If you wish to hide from someone, simply walk out of the frame.  Go ahead -- Try it -- It works every time.  This is the best way to hide from someone.
*The second-best way to hide from someone is to either a) Stand rigidly beside a building in plain sight, or b)Stand rigidly beside a bush in plain sight.
*The best way to hide from someone indoors is to sit on a staircase in plain sight.  They'll never notice you!!  Trust me . . .
*Meteors from outer space frequently resemble cheap July 4 Sparklers.
*If a meteor puts a wine mark on one side of your face, it will give you large teeth, a vague speech impediment, make your hair grow, and you will have to hide at home for the rest of your life.
*The best way to kill someone is to put the back of your hand on one side of their jaw, with the front of your hand on the other side of their jaw, and jump up and down.  This will kill them quickly, and obviate the need for actual strangulation.
*Teenagers the world over simply like to kill things.  They can't help it, they're just misunderstood.
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A really silly one.  An Old West setting combined with a smattering of science fiction and a touch of teenage rebel. 
Some who see this may be shocked by the enormous Western Town set, what with this being such an obvious zero-budget flick, but remember that this film was shot at a time when 3/4 of the TV shows and over half the theatre films were Cowboy/Western films of one sort or another, so access to full-on working Western town sets would be an easy thing to acquire for a day, or 2 days, to shoot the necessary location footage.
The same guy who worked on Karloff for The Mummy and Frankenstein and created incredible makeup for said, apparently worked on the bad makeup for this thing -- Do check out the very poor hairy glove hands -- 'must've needed some whisky money real bad . . .
A real head-shaker . . .
peter teenage/denny monster