Space Monster Wangmagwi
I THINK this movie is Korean, and it gives "Manos" serious competition for worst movie ever made.
Aliens attack Earth by sending a guy in a terrible monster suit down to Earth, this monster, radio controlled by the aliens who dropped it on Earth, where "air pressure" causes it to "inflate" to Godzilla-like proportions, begins its lazy "attack" on the city.
The monster wanders around stepping on pretty cheesy miniature buildings in Seoul, but the truly mind numbing part is the movie isn't very concerned with the attack. The Air Force is called in but do nothing- not one shot at the monster.
The movie is more focused on a spoiled, self-centered bride-to-be, who is more concerned with having her wedding postponed than the thousands of people of Seoul killed. Her intended is the hero of the movie, I think, but he is just as put out by their wedding plans being affected by the attack as she is. She finally decides to flee the city, in her wedding dress, with her mother (after the priest has run away) where she faints in the monster's path and the monster picks her up and basically just carries her around while occasionally ogling her completely non-existent cleavage.
If that wasn't bad enough, a preteen delinquent manages to climb up the 200 foot tall monster, crawl into its ear, cuts through one eardrum and then almost falls out the monster's nose (he saves himself by clinging onto one of the monster's nose hairs, I swear).
Another subplot involves two morons who make a bet over which one will be more brave in the face of the monster; one bets his life savings, the other bets his house and wife. They then spend a mind-numbingly long time clutching each other in the street and trying to hide their abject cowardice, before finally retreating to the second man's house where his wife is cowering under a blanket on the floor. The first man explains to her that she is now HIS wife, which she resists until the monster starts breaking up the house, when she starts calling him, "new husband" and begs him to save her. As he runs out of the house, she turns to the OTHER man, calling him "old husband" and... well, you just have to see it to believe it, this movie is head shakingly bad, the acting is atrocious, it's B&W, subtitled and the "humor" will make you long for the subtle comedic charms of "Roller Gator".
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harold reed tees
commented
Bert's summarization is correct and complete except for one scene.
While Wangmahwi lazily sizes up a skyscraper, we see inside the citizens sheltering there. There's one man, who needing to defecate, searches for a corner to which to. Spreading a newspaper he pushes aside some people and squawes down. Quickly relieving himself, the monster hits the building and the man sits into his own fecal matter. I mean who hasn't had this happen to them? I found the human story(ies) in the film to be
more interesting than the monster one. The part of the street urchin climbing into the monster, into his ear and nose is a bit of unexpected imagination within the stadid monster film. And I found the two middle aged men betting on their bravery another more interesting bit besides Wangmahwi. Still, it really merits a consideration for riffing. The aliens, with their fire plug helmets, leaf blower spaceship and numerous dainty ship controls, are a bit above Plan 9's production design.Wangmahwi's design isn't much better, but it works for me. The model city sets I thought were pretty good. The sound effects ruin it, as the buildings crumble it sounds like a child's building blocks tumble on a hard floor. Oh, we do get one great scene of an old man fleeing as an old can only do, get squashed like a grape under Wangmahwi's foot. I give Space Monster Wang-mah-wi four riffing stars! -
tsarstepan commented
Not sure that they'll ever riff a movie that doesn't have an English dub. But I'd be game to see them try.