Monster from Green Hell

Monster from Green Hell (1957)

The mammoth monster that terrified the Earth! Too awesome to describe! Too terrifying to escape! Too powerful to stop!

A test rocket carrying wasps to outer space, to study the effects on them of weightlessness and radiations, crashes out of control back to Earth, into the jungles of Africa. The two astrobiologists in charge of the test mount an expedition to the Darkest Continent to retrieve their experiment, only to find the wasps have grown to giant size which are panicking all forms of life as they quest for food.

Date of release
1957-05-17
TMDB
3.9 / 10 (39)
Runtime
1h 11m
Genres
Science Fiction, Horror
Director
Kenneth G. Crane

Casting

Interesting facts

Monster from Green Hell is a 1957 science fiction B movie. It was directed by Kenneth G. Crane, and starred Jim Davis and Barbara Turner. It was released on May 22, 1957, as a double feature with the English-dubbed, re-edited version of the 1955 Japanese tokusatsu film Half Human.

Production

Monster from Green Hell contains stock wild animal footage from the 1939 film Stanley and Livingstone. One of the filming locations was Bronson Caves located in Griffith Park, Hollywood. The film was released in black and white with a special tinted sequence added. The special effects were done by Jack Rabin, Louis DeWitt and Irving Block, with stop-motion animation by Gene Warren.

Film historian Bill Warren mentioned that he located one source that claimed Paul Blaisdell designed (and even operated) the giant wasp head, but according to Blaisdell, he only submitted a few pen and ink sketches of giant insects to Zimbalist while the film was in its initial planning stages, hoping to get hired. He claimed Zimbalist never returned his calls, nor did he ever return Blaisdell's sketches to him.

The soundtrack score was done by Albert Glasser. The film's working title was originally Creature from Green Hell or The Beast from Green Hell. Although the print viewed included a 1956 copyright statement for Gross-Krasne, Inc., the film was not registered for copyright at the time of its release. However, the film was registered for copyright many years later by Wade Williams on November 26, 1984, under number PA 180–809.

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