Made for $65,000, this one was the brainchild of a high school teacher who decided to make a monster movie in his small Californian town of Milpitas. And it seems like everyone in the town starred in this one! Is it any good? No! Its unsurprisingly strictly amateur hour all the way with ropey effects and a sound so muddy, you barely hear what anyone says but you never really feel like you're missing much. Its about a giant monster who feeds off the local rubbish dump. The inhabitants in the town take ages to spot it, which is somewhat hard to fathom seeing as it seems to be about ninety metres tall. It ultimately winds up with him grabbing a girl and climbing up the highest building in town. I wonder where they got that idea? Overall, this is likeable stuff, while simultaneously being utter, utter rubbish which is borderline unwatchable much of the time. It is nice to think that a small U. S. town got together and had a laugh back in 1976 and made a movie though. Bet they would never have believed that dumb-asses would still be watching it 45 years later.
Review of The Milpitas Monster
