Really BAD 'vintage' movie fans....?!
Question: Help me out here: movie from the 1960s, had a bunch of Japanese people in it. There was a weird monster with a yellow horn (that looked like a banana) destroying farms, homes, anything in it's path. For some reason, there was also a somewhat hairy "wild boy" running in the fields, too. This is all I remember. It's a horrible movie (worse than a B movie, possibly even considered a Z movie) but it was so funny, I have to find it again. Anyone know the title?
Answers: Help me out here: movie from the 1960s, had a bunch of Japanese people in it. There was a weird monster with a yellow horn (that looked like a banana) destroying farms, homes, anything in it's path. For some reason, there was also a somewhat hairy "wild boy" running in the fields, too. This is all I remember. It's a horrible movie (worse than a B movie, possibly even considered a Z movie) but it was so funny, I have to find it again. Anyone know the title?
...you're in luck, my fellow grade 'z' movie fan!!! You're referring to the 1965 Japanese monster movie fest, "Frankenstein Conquers the World"; the yellow-horned monster, which you spoke of, was the first appearance of a creature named Baragon (...which is not to be confused with a similarly-named sub-zero freezing monster named Baragon, who faced off with Gamera)...
...the video distribution company, Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock released a special two-disc special edition DVD, about two years ago, containing not only the American re-edit of the film, but also the alternate Japanese version, which bears the original ending, where the giant Frankenstein-like creature faces off with a giant octopus, before succumbing to the depth of the black oceans...
...during which time, the creature was biding his time, until the release of the 1966 sequel to "Frankenstein Conquers the World", which was called "War of the Gargantuas"; the differences between the American version of THIS movie, and the Japanese version....well, that's another story.....
Sounds like Frankenfuru, a bad adaptation of Frankenstein combined with classic big monster smashing city scenario.