3/23/2023 0 Comments Monster from green hell![]() Crane has filmed to fit around the stock footage is exceedingly crude. On the other hand, the new material that Kenneth G. At various points, the actors in this film are outfitted in clothes resembling the ones worn by the people in the other footage so as to make us think that it is them. Certainly, all of the dramatic scenes in the film have been cannibalised from elsewhere. Indeed, a substantial portion of Monster from Green Hell is filled with this stock footage, including all the scenes of natives rioting, animal stampedes, villages burning, floods and the climactic volcanic eruption. It soon becomes clear that the African locations having nothing to do with finding an interesting new venue for a monster movie and everything to do with the filmmakers making a film on the cheap by filling it with footage from other African adventure films. The term ‘green hell’ is lifted from the earlier jungle adventure film Green Hell (1940), although that was set in South America whereas here Green Hell is said to be in Africa. It is possible here that the film was taking some inspiration from the fine (normal-sized) killer ant film The Naked Jungle (1954). The other interesting thing it offers is that it is one of the few of these entries not to be set on US soil and ventures to Africa. ![]() Coming at the latter end of the cycle, it turns away from A-bomb fears and delves into a near fear – The Space Age and the era of Sputnik – and has the insects enlarged by cosmic radiation following a test launch into orbit. Monster from Green Hell has some minor novelty in that it is one of these few giant insect films that doesn’t feature atomic radiation as the cause. Monster from Green Hell turns to the idea of giant-sized, radiation-enlarged wasps. ![]() This was started by the quite serious and well made Them! (1954) and followed by the likes of Tarantula (1955), Beginning of the End (1957) with its giant grasshoppers, The Black Scorpion (1957), The Deadly Mantis (1957), Earth vs the Spider (1958) and Mothra (1962), among others. Monster from Green Hell is an entry from the heyday of the 1950s cycle of giant-sized (usually atomically-enlarged) bug movies.
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