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Sun Demon, The
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Robert Clarke is the mastermind behind this epic atomic age creature feature that will have your skin crawling in fear of the bloodthirsty monster unleashed on screen.
An earnest scientist is accidentally exposed to some deadly radioactivity from some funky isotope experiments. Initially there seem to be no adverse effects…. A cheerful and rather flirtatious Dr. Bill is taken by his nurse to the hospital roof to recuperate lying in some sun with some of the other convalescing patients. Unfortunately the rays get to him and within moments he is transformed from a relatively presentable young hunk of a specimen to a gurgling, scaly lizard thing with an appetite to kill as well as an embarrassingly rejuvenated libido. Momentarily Bill contemplates ending it all, in a scene where he is almost toppling over some craggy cliff into the sea below. His courage evaporates upon sight of some nubile young women in bikini's! Between bouts of turning into the lizard beast, Bill runs around local dives picking up the local talent. He comes across a bewitching Marilyn Monroe clone who plays her keyboard as if she really means it - with a devastating feather touch and just a bit of a flourish. The good lady's song will have you in splits, gasping for breath! She belts out a sultry soulful smoulderer at this sleazy hole she works and is willingly picked up by an amorous but for the moment scale-less Bill. Much horseplay and courting games ensue at the beach by moonlight before "animal lust" takes over and Bill and Blonde go at it furiously on a public beach! Then Bill, worn out by the sultry bombshell wakes up too late and hinds the sun blazing down on him. He dashes off leaving the blonde in the lurch and none too pleased. Bill scampers off home to dutiful wife and bevy of medical experts. Bill's condition takes a turn for the worse as his newly heightened amorous state doesn't allow him any peace - he tosses and turns at night dreaming of the Blonde. Slowly, as his condition worsens due to further exposure to the suns rays, he begins to turn scaly for far longer periods of time and grows more and more desperate and insane.
The scaly beast then ravages innocent people in his murderous rage and clearly lizards don't make safe drivers as he mows down people on the streets with gleeful abandon. His physical and moral degeneration is virtually complete when he tries to lure a young child into his filthy trap. Matters come to a terrifying climax as all mayhem breaks loose and the lizard man threatens humanity at large. It's a thrill a minute z grade drive in 50's Creature Feature with the only glowing omission being a party scene with Jivin Babes and Brylcream Boys. None the less for purveryors of schlocky, ultra cheap, z grade monster mayhem flicks featuring red hot blonde bombshells, you cant go far wrong with this offering. Would hold its own in any 50's Schlockfest. A gas!
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