O2D Watching these movies is such a mind numbing waste of time.As boring and terrible as this movie is, I still can't help but notice how similar the plot is to Bride of the Gorilla.The only difference is that Perry Mason got poisoned by a native and the fool in this movie gets whacked in the dome with a meteorite.The rest is the same.They go out at night and kill and we never really see what the monsters look like.But the similarities are only in the plot.Everything else about this movie is inferior.The acting is terrible, there's no action at all and almost everything that happens doesn't matter.The only good thing is that there is a hot chick that always wants to make breakfast.How can you not like that?Two stars, one for the hot chick.

GroovyDoom If you're looking for a decent monster flick with some gory action, sexy babes, and killer suspense...keep looking. This is a cheap, no-budget drive-in movie that aspires to be nothing more than a diversion. The dialog is just plain ridiculous, such as a legendary moment when a main character pensively recites the secret recipe for Native American stew. But lovers of horror kitsch just may find themselves taken in by this movie's bygone world of avacado-colored furnishings and monster suit shenanigans. I was fully aware I was watching a terrible movie, but did I enjoy it? Hell yeah I did! Hmmm well let's see, the plot has been discussed more than once here, but I'll summarize for the purpose of my own review: Paul, a groovy 70s loner type from the desert meets Kathy, a gorgeous chick who looks like Charlie cut her from the angels. Unfortunately, when he takes her to his favorite stargazing spot hopin' for a little action, a meteor shower ruins their fun by spraying asteroid shrapnel on them. Paul begins experiencing dizzy spells, and yet for a couple of days nobody thinks to take him to the hospital. Instead, Kathy uses it as her moment to pounce and she moves in with Paul, apparently uninvited. Paul, however, has a major problem: when the moon comes up, he now transforms into a murderous giant man-lizard. Paul's best friend and mentor, a teacher named Johnny Longbow (!), eventually catches on and helps both the law and the doctors diagnose Paul's condition. Johnny also helps cause Paul to explode by firing an asteroid-tipped arrow into him during the film's LSD-inspired conclusion.I was really taken in by the vacant atmosphere of this film. It's strangely similar to 1974's "The Bat People", except instead of a giant bat-monster, Paul turns into a giant lizard-monster. The makeup is pretty good, and there are a few moments that generate some mediocre chills. It's all very amateurish though, and you've got to really enjoy movies like that in order to appreciate this one. Buyer beware: you're getting a low rent product when you commit to investing 90 minutes of your life on this film. But if you've got a love for whacked out 70s monster movies, as well as a high tolerance for the ridiculous, then "Track of the Moon Beast" is a must-see.

Seb Track of the Moon Beast has a simple story to tell you, a meteor falls turning a man into a lizard beast when the moon is full. At the start some jokers make a howling noise in the hills to mildly surprise their friends. When they emerge after this merry jape they gobble up about ten minutes of screen time explaining the whys and wherefores of this little gag. But it doesn't end there, the entire film is littered with explanations of things you neither care about nor really need to know. Oh remember when you did this? What about the time this happened? Show it, or shut up about it! Most of it isn't relevant anyway.The acting in this one is just horrible and the script is full of moments where they all laugh and share a warm moment that excludes the audience because what they are laughing about isn't funny and what's going on is really drab and boring. The monster is a joke, day turns to night and night to day randomly and the whole thing alternately looks like it was filmed about six inches from the sun or inside a black hole depending on whether or not they remembered to turn the lighting on before shooting a scene.This is one boring pointless movie, so little happens that within fifteen minutes of it ending you'll be hard pressed to remember one significant scene. Even bad movie fans will struggle to find anything entertaining with this one.

bababear I wanted to like this. The people who made it worked hard and, bless their hearts, did the best they could. But it still is a mess, despite some promising material that just isn't developed.In the first act we meet Paul. As in most of the movie his shirt is off, and he's digging in the desert. He encounters Johnny Longbow, two of his students, and a photographer named Cathy who has blond hair and a low room temperature IQ.One of the few surprises is that the two students aren't future victims. They're just there.We learn that Johnny got his Indian name because of his skill with a bow and arrow. Hmmmm? Could that come into play later? At the same time a huge meteor is headed toward the moon, and a spectacular meteor shower is promised for that night. Paul and Cathy go up in the mountains to get a good view. A meteor lands very near them, grazing Paul's head. Considering its speed and temperature that should have killed him, but I digress.In the long second act Paul's relationship with Kathy becomes more intense (I can't use the word deepens here, just won't fit) and we learn some back story. Paul's parents are divorced, he lives with his mom and she's in Europe, leaving him to roam around a huge house. Johnny's Indian background and the world of science often conflict. OK.Paul turns into a giant lizard that looks a little like the one in THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE from the seventies. He kills off some people who have no connection to the story. Say a few lines of dialog, scream, dead. We find that a shard of the meteorite is lodged in Paul's brain. Worse yet, it's fragmented and is spreading, rendering surgery impossible and a neurosurgeon introduced into the narrative superfluous. There are a few attempts to deal with a twenty-four year old man's confronting his own mortality, but that goes nowhere.In the third act Paul runs off to the desert, Cathy follows him, as does the rest of the supporting cast. Johnny fires an arrow with an arrowhead made from a piece of moon rock, strikes the monster in the middle of the chest causing it to melt into a puddle.The acting isn't really bad, but it's acting. None of the performances feel natural. Their work would be considered good, even excellent, in a community theater group in a small town. But make a movie and you're playing in the big leagues.The worst thing about the movie is the sound. I think every scene was re-recorded because voices sound the same whether people are in the desert, a house, a museum, a hospital, wherever.The print of the movie on my DVD (a Chilling Classics box set of fifty movies I got at Best Buy for $20) was very worn. The night scenes were splotchy and there were imperfections in the film print. Sorry, but it reminds me how films with equally low budgets look great today because they're shot on digital video.That said, I'm sure that here thirty some years later everyone involved can open conversations with, "Hey, do you know I made a movie once?"