Objectively the current IMDb overall rating of 3.3 is probably accurate... but there's such love put into the frames of this quirky picture that it's subjectively worth so much more.
I was first introduced to the film in an episode of 1988's "The Incredibly Strange Film Show", where the director explained that the entire genre of the picture changes halfway through as "I got bored with the movie".
Beginning as a low budget, badly-dubbed thriller with catchy surf music, it gets around the halfway point and changes into an amateurish but enthusiastic superhero tale. Just as the pace starts to flag around the hour mark, a man in a gorilla suit comes on, and the whole thing's wrapped up in less than 70 minutes.
Ray Dennis Steckler estimated that the budget was around $4000- $5000, and it shows. With tinted colour effects that change throughout the duration, it's a love letter to film, from the age of silent cinema to the then-present day. Steckler wasn't a man who let technical shortcomings restrict his ambition, and there is some talent that can be glimpsed between the restrictions.
It all ends with a rock out beach party, as well it should.
I was first introduced to the film in an episode of 1988's "The Incredibly Strange Film Show", where the director explained that the entire genre of the picture changes halfway through as "I got bored with the movie".
Beginning as a low budget, badly-dubbed thriller with catchy surf music, it gets around the halfway point and changes into an amateurish but enthusiastic superhero tale. Just as the pace starts to flag around the hour mark, a man in a gorilla suit comes on, and the whole thing's wrapped up in less than 70 minutes.
Ray Dennis Steckler estimated that the budget was around $4000- $5000, and it shows. With tinted colour effects that change throughout the duration, it's a love letter to film, from the age of silent cinema to the then-present day. Steckler wasn't a man who let technical shortcomings restrict his ambition, and there is some talent that can be glimpsed between the restrictions.
It all ends with a rock out beach party, as well it should.