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The Wolf Person	Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	Lead	[-]
Mar 11 04 1:17 PM Moderator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anybody else remember this classic from the early 60's? I'd love to see this one show up on DVD. Here's an interesting article about it. www.horror-wood.com/caltiki.htm Pull the string! Pull the string!
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Laughing Gravy	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#1	[-]
Mar 11 04 1:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have this on tape somewhere. I haven't seen it in years, but I liked it. Then again, you know me.
SteveZodiak	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#2	[-]
Dec 8 04 3:55 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've been trying to see it for years. May have to resort to the DVD-r route. I remember it being pretty good with some genuine scare moments. The disolved arm, for instance. Pretty hard to say how good it was, I viewed it through a screen door as a kid. Today is only Yesterday's Tomorrow Last Edited By: SteveZodiak Apr 13 10 3:07 PM. Edited 1 times.
capmonte	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#3	[-]
Dec 8 04 10:49 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I've been trying to see it for years. May have to resort to the DVD-r route. I remember it being pretty good with some genuine scare moments. The disolved arm, for instance. Preety hard to say how good it was, I viewed it through a screen door as a kid. It's still pretty effective...I saw it for the first time last year (courtesy the DVD-r route) and was really surprised by the gruesome little touches, such as the arm, also the diver who comes up completely decomposed...pretty shivery stuff!
opticalguy	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#4	[-]
Dec 14 04 4:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I actually saw Caltiki - The Immortal Monster in a theater (the Colley Theater, now The NARO, in Norfolk, Virginia) and I've loved it ever since. It was also part of the local TV film package at WAVY Channel 10 I think since it ran on 'Tronic Theater which was the weekday afternoon movie show. I have the Sinister Cinema DVD-R from their funky, 16mm print and much of it holds up pretty well. The flames at the end really kill the illusion of size (the Italians couldn't afford even a simple flame DX) which is a pity since it's done quite well for the most part. Near the beginning there is a "hanging miniature" shot that is really cool. The miniature of the temple next to a tank of water containing a miniature of a volcano (a light below the volcano provides the glow and paint squirted up through the volcano simulates smoke) and the camera has a nodal point pan head set up. Nodal point means that the camera pivots on the len's optical center so that when it moves stuff in the foreground (the miniatures) stays perfectly lined-up with the background. to re[/i] sell the shot an actor walks in front of the miniatures and steps down so he goes underneath the miniatures and into the set that matches up with the foreground miniatures. Now that's clever![/b] Here is the title monster in the pretty darned atmospheric temple set. The diver who is pulled up half-eaten and yet still alive and breathing was a big shock moment. opticalguy@aol.com (Spencer Gill)
Latarnia	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#5	[-]
Dec 14 04 5:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I saw this in a theater, too, though I am a much younger man than you, Spencer. This was one of the first horror films I saw and I'm sure my parents regretted going to our weekly "Saturday Night at the Movies" when this movie was playing at the bottom of whatever double-bill it was on. I was frightened and intrigued by the film at the same time and distinctly remember a creepy gooey sensation that I can still elicit today when I think about CALTIKI. Of course, I'm joking about being much younger than you.... Mirek
Tim Lucas VW	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#6	[-]
Dec 14 04 6:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* to really sell the shot an actor walks in front of the miniatures and steps down so he goes underneath the miniatures and into the set that matches up with the foreground miniatures. Now that's clever! This was a favorite trick of Bava's. You can also see him do it in "The Wurdalak" segment of BLACK SABBATH (as Karloff peers into the ruins of a church, which consisted mostly of photo cut-outs on a sheet of glass) and in 5 DOLLS FOR AN AUGUST MOON when Ely Galleani pauses on the beach to look up at the beach house (here, you can see her reflection on the glass just frames before she enters the shot). The opening shots in CALTIKI I consider some of Bava's finest trick effects work, especially the shot of the archaeologists walking through a field encircled by towering Mayan totems.
SteveZodiak	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#7	[-]
Dec 14 04 11:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Has anyone seen either DVD-r on Ebay that could comment on the quality of either one? I've come close to buying one. Today is only Yesterday's Tomorrow
Michael Brunas	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#8	[-]
Dec 16 04 4:25 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	If it's the one put out by "Resurrection Video" (poster art on the snapcase) I can tell you that it's very good by gray-market standards and very much looks like a filmchain. Includes a trailer, too.
luluthebeast	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#9	[-]
Dec 16 04 8:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	SinisterCinema has it and you can get it on tape or dvdr. I got my tape there awhile back before he started doing the dvds.
japfeif	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#10	[-]
Jan 24 05 11:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	> I had a couple different DVD-R prints of it, but the best one is the one from Resurrection Video....it's really a pretty crisp print with clear sound.
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taraco	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#11	[-]
Jul 3 05 6:53 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I got a DVD-R from CryptFlicks at the Monster Bash and the quality is pretty good. Dark in a few spots, but a very decent print. Two thoughts: -- The poster showing Caltiki wrapped around skyscrapers has to rank among the top misleading ad campaigns of all time. I mean, Caltiki ghets pretty big, but he (she? it?), doesn't engulf Manhattan. -- Also, is Caltiki one blob creature or many? In the final assault, before it coagulates into the giant thing, it seems there are several Caltiki's. Anyone pay enough attention to say for sure? (And yes, the melting skulls were pretty raw stuff for the time!) david
Tim Lucas VW	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#12	[-]
Jul 3 05 11:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* The poster showing Caltiki wrapped around skyscrapers has to rank among the top misleading ad campaigns of all time. I mean, Caltiki gets pretty big, but he (she? it?), doesn't engulf Manhattan. Caltiki doesn't even make it to Mexico City! Come to think of it, I don't think Caltiki makes it out the driveway of the house where it was incubated. The film's dialogue refers to Caltiki as both a "god" and as "her." *Quote:* Also, is Caltiki one blob creature or many? One -- which then proceeds to grow in size and divide into separate entities, before recombining. I love how one scientist estimates that Caltiki is 20,000,000 years old (!), and this is followed by a newspaper headline rounding off that conservative figure to "BILLION YEAR OLD BEAST TERRORIZES TIKAL!"
Monsterpal	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#13	[-]
Oct 28 06 11:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Caltiki in the Mayan temple pool infects Gerard Herter's arm, and the infection is peeled off and preserved in a lab. When the comet passes over, the lab specimen starts growing rapidly. I believe this is the blob that gloms onto the house.
oldmanster	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#14	[-]
Oct 29 06 12:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I figured it was a Blob-like scenario -- the monster in the pool latched onto the guy's arm, then grew wildly when the comet went by. I never did think there were multiple Caltikis. ... Reed
Bill Warren	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#15	[-]
Oct 29 06 5:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* I never did think there were multiple Caltikis. It isn't entirely clear. The big one from the temple pool is apparently destroyed by a truckload of boom boom, but has already latched onto the guy's arm, dissolving rather than infecting his flesh. That fragment enlarges in the hero scientist's lab when the comet is overhead. This mass does seem to become several smaller masses for a while, but as Tim says, recombine before being destroyed.
Koukol 5	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#16	[-]
Oct 29 06 7:14 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Does anyone know where the best dvd-r of Calltiki is? Is the Resurrection video version still available?
skelton knaggs	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#17	[-]
Nov 3 06 1:15 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	CALTIKI is a very worthy Italian knock-off to QUATERMASS. If any of these brainless Hollywood types had any sense....Someone would look up this one and maybe think remake. The possibilities are endless...
HalLane	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#18	[-]
Nov 8 06 11:19 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	These days, you could even easily film that misleading poster.
oldmanster	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#19	[-]
Nov 8 06 7:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Already happened. See the finale of Evolution. ... Reed
Monsterpal	Re: Caltiki - The Immortal Monster	#20	[-]
Nov 10 06 6:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but the interior of the temple set appears to be the same marble quarry seen in countless Italian sword and sandal movies, such as HANNIBAL and DUEL OF THE TITANS. It served as the leper colony in the remake of BEN-HUR, too.
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