After being dug up by two archaeologists, the preserved body of a prehistoric man returns to life and wreaks havoc.
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Title: The Beast from the Beginning of Time (1965)
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Ralph Seeley | ||
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Marc Clark | ||
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Suzanne Farrar | ||
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Dusty Herring | ||
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Karla Kessler | ||
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Ray Taylor | ||
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Jim Bogue | ||
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Mike Sheets | ||
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Wayne Carlton | ||
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After being dug up by two archaeologists, the preserved body of a prehistoric man returns to life and wreaks havoc.
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EnglishRelease Date:
30 October 1981 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Wichita, Kansas, USAEdit
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Archaeologists are puzzled by a perfectly-preserved human body unearthed from a multi-million-year-old geological stratum. Following subsequent analysis, the remains are determined to be of an early ancestor to modern man. This startling discovery rouses the interest of a few high muckamucks in the science world, and they prattle-on endlessly with the usual pseudo-scientific explanatory deductions. Things take an even more bizarre turn when an electrical storm unexpectedly(?) reanimates the prehistoric fellow, who proceeds to wreak very familiar B-movie havoc. He's not really much of a beast, quite frankly...long-haired and clad in a formless makeshift skirt, he looks more like an unsightly vagrant transvestite who just got thrown from a mechanical bull.
THE BEAST FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME is something of a regional curio, largely funded(well, okay, maybe not LARGELY) by a Wichita, KS area independent TV station, and written/directed by the host of a weekly horror movie show popular in the region during that time(he has the starring role, as well). The film languished in obscurity for decades, being seen only by the handful who caught it during a scant few local TV airings.
TBFTBOT has now become readily viewable on a number of streaming sites free of charge. This is fortunate, because it's not worth paying money to see, to be quite honest. Genre fans should be grateful for any monster movie that gets shielded from the death-kiss of "lost cinema", and this case is no exception...all things considered, I'm happy to have seen it. I'm also sorry to report that it has a barnyard quality very much on par with some of the era's other regional cheapies...TEENAGERS BATTLE THE THING(1959), NIGHT FRIGHT(1967) and THE LEGEND OF BLOOD MOUNTAIN(1965) spring to mind. As notably low grade as these pictures are, TBFTBOT is, sadly, worse still. It's a blandly shot and poorly written picture with a loitering pace. Too, it's depressingly unimaginative and uniformly dull, with a mere modicum of action during the final stretch which is is far too little too late. To its credit, however, performances from the key players are, surprisingly, rather passable for such a picayune project, and there are dashes of gore in a couple of spots which, though tame by today's standards, were fairly excessive for '65.
All said, this might intrigue a select few for its rarity and somewhat unusual production history. Any rediscovered addition to the horror canon is a welcome one, but the best thing I have to say about TBFTBOT is that I've seen worse.
3/10...disappointing.