MONSTER is very much a terrible picture, an extremely low rent monster movie from 1980. I love the genre and I love the era, but this indie was shot out in the desert in New Mexico and is of such a poor quality in every respect that it's difficult to sit through. A bunch of stale and ageing cast members do battle with a barely-seen creature that rises from the depth to take victims, but this sub-CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON has absolutely nothing to recommend it, even for B-movie lovers. John Carradine pops up as a priest, James Mitchum is the wooden, square-jawed hero, and Anthony Eisley must be wondering why his career never progressed beyond Z-grade features.

An American company has built a factory in Colombia and the pollution from the factory has possibly created a monster in the local lake.A TV station from New York has sent an investigative reporter to the scene and she is the lamest antagonist ever.You can tell she's a very serious journalist because she never wears a bra and leaves her shirt half buttoned.A guy gets a phone call asking for sonar equipment.He says he doesn't know what it is, then immediately says they have some at another site.Weak.So there's tons of tight shots, bad acting and even more music and dancing.Most of the Colombians are white with American accents, of course.Weirdly, Colombia seems to be full of extremely hot blonde women.I would have never guessed.Anyway, the monster looks really cool but he's extremely hard to see and is only on screen for thirty seconds.While this is a truly terrible movie, I gave it two stars because I have seen worse.Never see this.

"True" story of a late monster that appears when an American industrial plant begins polluting the waters. Amusing, though not really good, monster film has lots of people trying to get the monster and find out whats going on but not in a completely involving way. Give it points for giving us a giant monster that they clearly built to scale for some scenes but take some away in that it looks like a non threatening puppy. An amusing exploitation film thats enjoyably silly in the right frame of mind. (My one complaint is that the print used on the Elvira release is so poor that it looks like a well worn video tape copy that was past its prime 20 years ago.)

I don't care how inept and foolish "Monstroid" is, because this film's leading male character is my new personal here and role model from this moment on! It's fairly irrelevant to the story, but dig this: the manager of a gigantic construction company in Bolivia dumps his gorgeous blond girlfriend because he started a new relationship with another gorgeous woman; a brunette this time, who also happens to be the local mayor's daughter. Yet, the exact same evening, the guy meets up again with the blond girl by the side of a lake, has sex with her and then dumps her again! And she doesn't even seem to complain! I worship this guy! How does he do it? Then of course, the titular monster emerges from the lake and kills the blond girl, so that the actual movie can finally start. Please, don't pay too much to the incredibly low (1,9 ?!?) rating here on IMDb, as "Monstroid" is a tremendously fun and undemanding trash-effort of the late 1970's. The make-up effects and the creature's design are delightfully cheesy (it actually looks like a watery version of ET, with a long neck and totally UN-menacing puppy-eyes) and the script is full of holes and unintentionally comical situations. Supposedly based on true facts (yeah, sure…), the film claims that industrial waste and constant pollution of the water caused an ordinary inhabitant of the lake to mutate into a bloodthirsty creature that feeds on human flesh. Locals as well as company employees and opponents of the factory eventually have to combine forces to defeat the cute-looking critter, but nobody knows how. Perhaps I was just in a very relaxed mood hen I saw it, but "Monstroid" is a lot more charming and amusing than the other reviews suggest. It certainly isn't the worst film in its type and at least it's 100% unpretentious and traditionally accomplished, with a lot of spirit and goodwill from everyone involved in the production. The setting is even rather original and the bright and enchanting photography make it easy to watch. I might be making dangerous recommendations here, but surely admirers of old-fashioned B-monster movies won't regret seeing this film.