skelton knaggs wrote:
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This one particular scene certainly wounded me as a child. It was sure horrific for it's time, but looking at it from an "adult" perspective, there's even something deeper going on. Just the thought of murdering a defenceless woman for her car is bad enough. But to drive it with the body in the passenger seat, bloodied, moist, not even cold seems cruelly macabre and a bit twisted. I think up to this point the monster kills I witnessed were clean or off camera.

This scene, and this creature, are pretty terrific in my book.  I must admit, I often secretly pine that someone would gather up three or four of the best 50s indie monsters and do a new mash-up.  Maybe the Hideous Sun Demon and the Monster of Piedras Blancas?  Is there some fan-fic out there I should know about?