A couple traveling cross country get lost. The husband Norman (Corveth Ousterhouse) is obnoxious and the wife Leilla (Shirley Bonne) just sits there and takes it. They run out of gas near a huge house owned by Greely (Bill Thurman). It seems Greely has a monster hidden in a cave nearby and feeds it humans. He traps Norm, Leilla and nice guy Wayne Thomas (Tommy Kirk) in that cave and they try to escape.Truly horrendous but it's SO bad it gets fascinating to watch. Scenes go on endlessly (it seems half the movie consists of cars driving down roads), the dialogue is lousy and the basic plot is pretty stupid. Don't even get be started on the threadbare sets and the hilariously stupid monster that pops up at the end! It's (obviously) a guy in a rubber suit with ping pong eyes and false fangs! The acting varies. Ousterhouse is terrible (no surprise that this was his only movie) but Thurman, Kirk and Bonne are actually pretty good. Their acting actually makes the rest of the movie bearable. But, all in all, this is a boring, stupid and pointless "horror" movie. Still, I have to admit I kept watching. It's just SO bad you can't stop!

As others have said this movie is so bad that parts of it are good.I would say this is the worst movie I have ever seen. But it is good fun.I can see that it would play well on late night TV or in a drive inback in 1969. I liked the location shots and the crazy Mr. Greely. Andthe pretty blond. The monster was too lame for words. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen in a movie. Perod.But all in all a very campy movie. Pure trash. Reminded me of "The Thing" in Arizona. And "What is it?" South of the Border. A good play on tourist traps. A bit of a Psycho ripoff.

I give this movie 1 star, but I mean it in a good way. ;-) How do you rate a hideously awful movie you have so much fun watching? It makes "Plan 9" look good. It makes "Manos" -- okay, never mind, not Manos. "Eegah" maybe, but not "Manos." This is one for the MST3K crowd. My brother and I had stumbled across it on TV many years ago. It was by far the worst movie we had seen up to that point, and we cracked up all the way through it.Years passed, and we had completely forgotten its title. I was on a slow quest to try to find the title again. Finally, finally, I described it in an online forum (before IMDb) and someone told me the title. The next quest was to find a copy. Time passed, and my lovely bride got me the DVD as a gift. We had to share it with our horrible-movie-watching gang.

This movie was extremely disturbing to me when I first saw it as a kid. Early 70's, late night "Creature Features"! The stock music that Larry Buchanan always used in his movies contributed a lot. But what really disturbed me the most was Billy Thurman's loony character. He physically resembled an uncle of mine! That was really creepy! Considering my uncle is a nice guy. The monster was hokey as hell, but still creeped me out.(Hey! I was 10 years old!) The real monster though, was Bill Thurman's character. He played it with his usual "intensity", and it was scary! No, it will never go down in history as a "classic", but I would like to have it on DVD, to bring back that 10 year old. Just so he can laugh at it now!