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The Hideous Sun Demon
Directed By:
Robert Clarke
Theatrical Release Date: 1959
MPAA Rating: 
Studio: Image Entertainment
Editorial Review - Description
Screen star Robert Clarke, legendary science fiction leading man of the 1950s, produced, directed and starred in this Atomic Age chiller about a scientist that turns into a hideous prehistoric creature when exposed to the sun's deadly rays. This is it! The original cult classic, filled with tense radioactive atmosphere, as the Sun Demon stalks his prey while his primordial mating urges go berserk! An excellent modern-day horror screamer filled with murder, monsters, radioactive isotopes and a sizzling blonde babe with gravity-defying assets. Bring your sunglasses and tanning oil because "The Hideous Sun Demon" is on the loose!
a great so bad its good movie with a little over acting
A Customer Review by herbhike
The movie as a whole is quite good for a "so bad its good" production. They did a pretty good job as having a full length rubber suit that fits into his pants so you get the feeling it is the whole body that is a reptile. The poor guy knocks over things and gets nuclear particles into his body. The sun turns him into a monster after being exposed for a short length of time. He is a monster for a short time until he can get out of the sun. It keeps getting worse as time goes by. He does a little over acting at times like William Shatner did as Captain Kurk. The end scenes have the "top of the world ma" similarities from "White Heat". Very good fight scenes at the end. He does a lot of great butt kicking in the movie as the monster. He does not make Peta happy either as he kills a dog who was chasing him. He gets so involved with a big chested blond, he forgets about the sun coming up in the morning on the beach. Man does he catch hell for ditching her and getting home as quick as he can. It is like a vampire getting to his coffin and beating the sun coming up. The song the gal does will haunt you for months. Check out his wet pants from sweating from the rubber suit underneath his clothes as he climbs the tower to get away from the cops. It is worth the money to buy this dvd. Brings back the old theater Saturday day matinees when you were a kid.
Herb Salisbury
b-monster flick that has its good points
A Customer Review by Robert J. Crawford
As a connoisseur of 50's scifi monsters - if not invading aliens, they almost invariably involve radiation, mutation, and murder - this is a pretty good one. Rubber suit and all, Sun Demon has good characters, from the affected scientist-turned-beast to his girls. He struggles to do the right thing, but, well, fails. Then it gets gruesome, before becoming a chase. As a kid, I remember wanting to see this, but couldn't because "it was playing in a bad neighborhood", so now I have finally realized my desire (in a fit of insomnia over the internet). OK, it's a formula, but at least it is well done.
Recommended for the cognoscenti.
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