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Beast-Thing from the Flames of Hades!
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.
From Hell It Came
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Veio do Inferno, 它来自地狱
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25 Aug 1957
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"Couldn't we try and energize the adrenal gland with an electrode resistor?"
A movie about a killer sapling that throws its victims into quicksand SHOULD be insanely fun, and yet Director Dan Milner and his charisma free cast manage to find a way to flub the landing.
Unfortunately, this film moves twice as slowly as Tabanga (the name of the movie's infamous Tree creature). It starts off promising, as I love the monster-themed font used for the opening credits...by far the coolest element of this romp. This is one of those countless horror titles that kicks off with the ceremonial killing of someone who swears revenge on their perpetrators. In this instant, it's an island prince (wrongly convicted of murder)…
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Twenty years after finding out about this (notoriously boring) movie I've finally succumbed to my stupid monster curiosity. Too bad I ended up watching it AFTER mainlining tokusatsu shows for the past two years, in which you're rewarded with a new stupid monster at least every twenty minutes. I mean I just watched an episode of Flashman where the pink and yellow ranger are in a car chase with a sentient refridgerator. Not a single scene wasted on watching boring actors talk to each other!
I will say that the best part about finally getting around to From Hell It Came is learning that two of the characters are called Korey and Tabanga. No joke. -
Awesome monster, mediocre film with way too much focus on dated gender politics and manly manliness and mild racism. Just your average fifties monstermovie.
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From Hell It Came, the tree walked to avenge wrongs but why did it have a pulsating, puckered hole? Your guess is as good as mine or maybe even better. The monster was adorable but the movie was not. I thought it was really romantic when the lead guy was talking about his hot scientist girlfriend who he "sometimes wants to kick her beautiful teeth in" for being a doctor first and a woman second. I wish I could rewind the movie, start it over and watch my beautiful tree monster kill the lead guy in various creative ways repeatedly for 80-minutes. p.s. You can carry me anywhere cutie tree monster, I love you sweet boy.
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I've watched too many of these 50s sci-fi creature features to count, and I don't think I've ever seen one that ticks off as many of the genre's retroactive humorous hallmarks as this one does, it would require only the narrowest hair's-breadth adjustment to become a full on Joe Dante Amazon Women on the Moon parody. I hereby choose to believe that Topanga from Boy Meets World's name was an intentionally mangled allusion to this film.
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And finally: runtime roulette.
I wanted to get a movie in before bedtime, picking the first short one I found, this one clocked in at hour and fourteen minutes so press play.
Voodoo island kills a prince who vows vengeance. Apparently there's some curse where they come back as a tree monster. Okay, you got my attention. Then is just crawls at a snail's pace as the rich morons show up and walk around the island asking eachother "why don't you like me?". I guess they find the tree monster who's apparently dying and we see what appears to be "Tree Monster Anus". Tree Monster gets up, walks around, SLOWLY the suit on that actor looked atrocious to wear and…
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I just wish I could read a review of a movie on this site without the words "sexism" or "racism" coming up.
I immediately just stop reading a review now when I see either one.
If you're NOT expecting relative insensitivity or obsolete morality from a movie made earlier than any decade besides the one you're living in, you don't really get movies yet. -
There are cheap-looking monsters, and then there is the Tabanga, a demon tree that is the reincarnation of a man wrongly executed by a tribe of totally-not-white-people. It takes a while for our grumpy Ent to show up, but once he does, he walks over here, then over there, then he drops a woman in quicksand, then he bear hugs a man to death, and after all that, he does some more walking. It’s incredibly charming, especially when that score has those soaring theramins. Prime camp from the 50’s.
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It's an inept 50s atomic era monster movie with the added bonus of a veritable shipload of haughty imperialist racism and white man's burden claptrap. Total whitewashing of the supposed native islanders, which while typical, is nevertheless deplorable.
Insane levels of dry, redundant dialogue. Most of which is eye-rollingly offensive in one way or another. Very little action. The monster is cool looking and is a hilarious concept because its a WALKING TREE! Who for some reason must abduct a white woman. Aw, he's a little incel Ent!
This is prime for a MST3K thrashing. It deserves every bit of scorn they, or anyone else, can lob at it.
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From Hell It Came is the chilling tale of an island in the South Pacific afflicted by plague. The local witch doctor has an innocent man executed, and he returns to life as a walking tree. There are also some American scientists running around like they own the place.
Movies like this and The Giant Claw are the cinematic equivalent of dime bags of heavily stepped-on cocaine that smells like gasoline. Are they good? No. Will I take them? You bet. Will they leave me feeling empty inside? Absolutely, but also, I don't care. Lay 'em out. It's time to get high.
Watched with my kids.
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May 2021 Daily Horror Hunt 9/31
Watch a horror from the 50s or 60s.
HORRORx52 (2021 EDITION) 7/52
1950sI have only seen this movie once when I was a kid when it was on TV and I'm in the mood for a cheesy movie from the 1950s. From Hell It Came is a fun trashy movie in my opinion. The acting and dialogue are pretty bad, but I do like the premise for the film. You have a South Seas Prince that dies and comes back to life as a monster. From Hell It Came is entertaining for being so bad. It does take a while for the cool stuff to happen, but it is worth sitting through. It's…
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This is the movie with the famous description by Leonard Maltin: As walking-tree movies go, this is at the top of the list. The monster is so terribly bad and cute that, no matter how bad the film could be, it deserves to be seen.
2021: 507/801
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