Seeing this film brings back a lot of wonderful memories of Saturday afternoon monster movies.
Glenn Langan stars as Lt. Col. Glenn Manning, a man exposed to the blast of a Plutonium bomb while trying to rescue a pilot in a crashed aircraft laying very close to target zero.
With burns covering 90% of his body he is given little chance for survival, but everyone is in for a hell of a surprise. The next morning the doctors discover that his body has healed itself 100 percent. The doctors try to discover why.
But soon he begins to grow at the rate of 8 to 10 feet a day due to body cells which are not acting as they should since the explosion. Before too long he is 60 feet tall and goes on a destructive rampage in Las Vegas.
There are many wonderful scenes in this film and they include Manning going off on a soldier who has brought him dinner and the now classic scene of him using a giant syringe as a dart and killing Maj. Eric Coulter (Larry Thor).
A lot of the special effects are below par, but that is due to budget as was the problem on most films directed by Bert I. Gordon. The rest of the cast includes Cathy Downs as the long suffering girlfriend of Manning, William Hudson, Hank Patterson, James Seay, Frank Jenks and Russ Bender.
I think Cathy Downs was one of the most attractive women in movies and I have her in quite a few films. Watching this movie again after so long is like putting on a comfortable pair of old slippers, it just feels so good. It's not available on DVD and probably never will be, but if you look around hard enough you might be able to find it. Essential Halloween viewing!!
This was last available in the US on VHS from RCA. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! The sequel, War Of The Colossal Beast is available on DVD.
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