If you didn't grow up watching Universal Studios classic monster movies, never went to a downtown theater or sat in your car at a drive-in watching low-budget gore-fests, if you don't know artists such as Sid Haig or Rudy Ray Moore or David Friedman, you likely won't enjoy this movie. If all your pampered senses are only accustomed to fifty million dollar films with more computer animation than real people and things, you'll think this movie is bad. For the rest of you who gets it- Search for the Beast is an authentic exploitation thriller with genuine roots in the old tradition of fast-and-cheap movie making and over-the-top storytelling we loved so much in those drive-in masterpieces. This pedigree is solid with the inclusion of two b-movie stars: The late, GREAT David F. Friedman (Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS, 2001 Maniacs) and Rick Montana (Charlie and Sadie, Bikini Hoedown, Redneck Revenge). It has it all- nudity, violence, double-crossing villains, hillbillies, and a bloodthirsty monster. So find it, watch it, get a copy for your collection.
Review of Search for the Beast
