Rainey Dawn This film surprised me - better than I ever expected it to be. Something about it reminds me a little bit of Jekyll & Hyde and to a lesser degree The Wolf Man... I can't place my finger on it but I think it was the chase scenes. The Manster may not be quite as good as the 2 films I mentioned but it's almost to the level of them - quite a good film.A mad scientist is interviewed about his amazing experiments. The scientist feels the reporter would make the perfect subject for his most diabolical of experiments which turns the reporter into a two-headed creature - a killer.This one is a little bit above average on the 1950's horror b-films - they really went all out for the film. As one reviewer said "This is a film waiting to be re-discovered".5/10

thejcowboy22 Watched this movie as a child and enjoyed the ride from start to finish. American reporter visits Japanese Mad Scientist with lovely assistant. Mutated Wife is Locked in a cage the way all good marriages should be. Brother-in-Law shows up looking like a polar bear. Great set-up for a sci- FY movie. With Japan as the backdrop this epic will hold your interest for the remainder of the film.Watching our leading man alter into two leading men is disturbing yet unique.Watching the transformation scenes will shake your imagination. The separation scene was done with taste but my only question was how Larry's clothes stay on his body and not tatter to the ground? The censors made sure that the blood soaked trousers stay on!.Long before the film LOST IN TRANSLATION was made this film has a horror twist that keeps you interested for more. A must see classic that never gets old. I rate and give this movie 3 Sushi rolls.

meddlecore A Japanese scientist named Dr. Suzuki is doing human experiments on "volunteers"- mostly from his family- in attempt to chemically recreate the conditions that will precipitate an evolutionary mutation...then keeps them locked up in his lab when they become mutant freaks or monsters. He even kills and burns his own brother- a yeti looking thing- after he escapes one night.When Larry, an American foreign correspondent, comes to investigate the Doctor's work, he gets drugged. While he is passed out, the Doctor injects him with an enzyme that will cause him to mutate, both physically and psychologically- changing him into a psychopathic "manster".His hand first turns into a monster hand, and he starts to get the overwhelming urge to kill people.After murdering a monk, Larry starts to go crazy. He leaves his wife, stops working and starts acting all erratic. This makes his editor suspicious- especially after he sees Larry with a set of Buddhist prayer beads.After randomly murdering a few more people, things get progressively worse for Larry. An eye starts to form on his shoulder. And this soon sprouts into a second beastial head.Monster Larry is now forced to go on the lam, with the cops chasing him- and that's pretty much how the rest of the movie goes. The film inevitably concludes with a final rager and showdown, with a slight twist.In the end, I was personally left with one question: how come every mother*cker in Tokyo- other than whores and beat cops- is f*cking white!? You'd think Japan was an American imperialized colony based on watching this film!!! The film is nicely shot- particularly that last scene with the volcano smoking in the background- and it does touch upon a few interesting concepts. But overall it's a pretty mediocre film (ruined slightly by it's moralistic explanatory endnote). I mean, the whole thing makes the Japanese look like monsters or idiots worthy of death. While the Americans act like they are their saviours- taking a position of moral authority (both thematically, and in the work-related positions they hold), and using that to dominate their Japanese inferiors.This film is most notable for the homage it receives from Sam Raimi in Army of Darkness- when Ash gets an eye on his shoulder; Evil Ash's head pops out and the two eventually split apart. 4 out of 10.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** When American foreign news reporter Larry Stanford, Peter Dyneley, came to interview renowned Japaneses genetic scientist Dr. Robert Suzuki,Tetsu Nakamura,he didn't quite realize what he was getting himself into. Dr.Suzuki has been secretly experimenting with human beings to improve the human race but has been off a bit from his game-plan lately. The two persons that Dr.Suzuki has experienced with his brother Genji and wife Emiko, Kenzo Kuroki & Toyoko Takechi, have turned into mindless and dangerous mutants! Unknown to Larry he's to be the next person that Dr. Suzuki is planning to experiment on!It's not long after getting himself knocked out with a drug Dr.Suzuki slip on him,in a whiskey shot-glass, that the friendly and good matured Larry starts to turn very anti-social! Even to his best friend fellow foreign reporter Ian Matthews, Norman Van Hanley, and his loyal and loving wife Linda Jane Hyhon. What's even worse Larry starts to get violent fits that in the end leads to him going out at night and killing anyone that he comes in contact with!It's Dr.Suzuki's way to keep Larry in line and under his control by having his pretty assistant Tara, Terri Zimmern, get romantically involved with him. This soon backfires on Dr.Suzuki when Tara refuses to go along with his sick experiment! That despite threats by Dr.Suzuki of sending Tara back to where she came, and from where he rescued her, to the underground white slavery trade.Larry who's has't been feeling that well since Dr.Suzuki drugged him soon gets even worse when he notices an eye that later turned into a head growing out of his right shoulder! This turns Larry into an uncontrollable homicidal maniac and whatever he did before, in murdering innocent people on the streets of Tokyo, is child's play to what he's soon to do next in the movie!Surprisingly good acting that you'd never expect in a film of this type makes the silly storyline far more believable then it would have been. Everyone involved is so natural and sincere, especially Jane Hyhon as Larry's wife Linda, in their acting that it makes it very hard for you to feel that your watching a movie that's ranked among the worst films of all times.***SPOILERS*** The splitting up of Larry Stanford, like an amoeba, towards the end of the movie making him into a both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde character at the some time was by far the highlight of the film. It also made it very difficult for the local Tokyo Police who to arrest and to hold responsible for the numerous murders committed in the film! Larry Stanford or his evil half the Manster!