Thursday, June 05, 2014

Movie review - "Reptilicus" (1961) **

Very junky but an impossible film to dislike - I mean a Danish film about a killer reptile. Who couldn't love it? Danish miners (I had no idea there were such things but there you go) dig up the creature, it gets taken to Cophenhagen, awakes and goes on a rampage.

Lots of fun things - Danish actors speaking slowly, all the Danes on bikes, Reptilicus running riot through various Copenhagen landmarks (my favourites: the attack at the beach and where the extras run off the draw bridge), scientists and the military squabbling. It's in colour so the locations are used to good advantage.

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