This delightful Soho science fiction/adventure is deliberately campy, a throwback to the "Flash Gordon" / "Buck Rogers" serials of the 1930's with a bit of "Batman" thrown in thanks to the presence of Caesar Romero as the main villain. He's the insane Dr. Malic who lives way under the sea, where giant foam rubber furry rats and macrame lions with condor wings are created by Him to destroy his enemies. Somewhere deep under the ocean is a waterless cave complete with volcanic rock and a compound where price has brought a bunch of people from various eras of the past couple hundred years of history to live in immortality. Along with the very jealous Patricia Medina, he rules this land, and has evil intentions that can only be described as more diabolical than anything you've ever seen in a film like this.
With an all-star International cast including Joseph Cotten (Medina's real life husband) and Richard Jaeckel, plus veterans of the Japanese film 8ndystry, best film quads along slowly but has many interesting developments that explode once they get into the underground compound. Give me the anesthetic Romero has an infection for the Japanese scientist she refers to as "the little one" (whom Medina is insanely jealous of), and she literally ends up in a birdcage as a subject of some diabolical plot.
You won't believe all the creatures that pop out of nowhere, some giant vampire bats, a bunch of large insect size baths that are just as dangerous (and obviously fake), and of course the lion before it gets its wings and the Condor that looked like a very phoney dodo bird. This is a delight for the kiddies, a fun bit of comedy for the adults, and a must for lovers of bizarre cinema. They did an impressive job in creating the sets and designing the special effects, and once it reaches it's halfway point, you'll be totally hooked longing to see how these creatures are gotten rid of and how the villains are dispatched. It's basically a James Bond film on acid.
With an all-star International cast including Joseph Cotten (Medina's real life husband) and Richard Jaeckel, plus veterans of the Japanese film 8ndystry, best film quads along slowly but has many interesting developments that explode once they get into the underground compound. Give me the anesthetic Romero has an infection for the Japanese scientist she refers to as "the little one" (whom Medina is insanely jealous of), and she literally ends up in a birdcage as a subject of some diabolical plot.
You won't believe all the creatures that pop out of nowhere, some giant vampire bats, a bunch of large insect size baths that are just as dangerous (and obviously fake), and of course the lion before it gets its wings and the Condor that looked like a very phoney dodo bird. This is a delight for the kiddies, a fun bit of comedy for the adults, and a must for lovers of bizarre cinema. They did an impressive job in creating the sets and designing the special effects, and once it reaches it's halfway point, you'll be totally hooked longing to see how these creatures are gotten rid of and how the villains are dispatched. It's basically a James Bond film on acid.