Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.
- ape
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tom Alvich — Torn Cop
- Walter Levine — Police Thief
- Harriet Medin — Mrs. Blinerman
- Eric Sinclair — Joe Putzman (as Eric Allison)
- Charles Villiers — Cal
- Ralph Baker — Dying Man
- John Chambers — National Guard Captain
- Gene Fox — Billy
- Richard Gillis — Officer Gillis
- Forrest J. Ackerman — Man in cinema
- Susan Weiser — Betty
- Directed
- John Landis
- Written
- John Landis
Production
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 · 72 ratings
- Studio
- Gazotskie Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
